Is South Carolina Jim DeMint's Vision For the Rest of America?

South Carolina's Sen. Jim Demint leads the far right fridges of the Republican Party and Tea Party movement. His state has been dominated by extremely conservative political leadership for over 200 years and is home to some of the most severe poverty, public health problems and unemployment in the U.S.A. Add to that massive failures in education and public health and the most violent crime in the nation, and you can get an idea of what Demint’s vision for the rest of the country looks like.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Senator Jim Demint: collective bargaining for public employees "just doesn't make any sense."



Despite the fact that most unionized Federal public employees are not permitted by Federal law to bargain over wages and benefits which are set by the U.S. Congress, Senator Demint believes they should also not be permitted to bargain over working conditions.

Who owns Jim Demint? Do big corporate donations to his campaigns and PAC explain his anti-labor stance?
Demint cries foul in NLRB-Boeing dispute while company outspends union for lobbying and political contributions
Demint's anti-union stance trumps his concern for airport security
Hear Senator Demint lie about non-existent Federal laws that allegedly force workers to join unions
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Learn more about Senator James Demint, South Carolina and other red state failures

  • List of S.C. Political blogs (many perspectives)
  • Gov. Nikki Haley's official website
  • Demint's PAC donates money to elect extreme conservatives to Congress
  • Team Demint: Senator Demint's official campaign website
  • South Carolina Soapbox: ordinary citizens have their say
  • South Carolina New Democrats Blog
  • South Carolina Statehouse Blog
  • Demint Watch Blog
  • Mitch McConnell's Kentucky
  • S.C. Where you have the right to work but not to eat
  • S.C. Republicans compare Demint to stereotype of a penny pinching Jew
  • SCIWAY: South Carolina's Information Highway
  • Fitsnews: conservative viewpoint with tons of great South Carolina facts
  • History of South Carolina time table
  • James Demint's Senate web site

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J.A. Miller
I am a former autoworker who lived through the deindustrialization of the American mid-west and began a second career in media. My daughter recently moved to South Carolina to teach writing and literacy to children there. After I heard her reports on the social conditions in a state long dominated by right wing politicians, I was inspired to develop this blog and others that show the failure of conservative policies in red states like South Carolina, Texas and Kentucky. I was pleased to extensively tour South Carolina and to find that despite the poverty and problems, the working people there are warm and welcoming. I dedicate this effort to them and to all the un and underemployed, to those who've lost jobs, wages and benefits to Republican austerity and to small business people and farmers, who struggle in an ever shrinking North American market.
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