Yes, I’m an incumbent, but I’ve been working for years to change the
way business is done in Columbia. I know everyone is facing tough
times right now but there is a silver lining. The more frustrated
people become, the louder they get. You’ve finally got the
politicians’ attention and for the first time, a lot of the reforms my
conservative teammates and I have been fighting for are finally
getting passed.

This year we passed a spending caps bill to stop the politicians from
wasting our money on pointless projects.

Just a few weeks ago we finally passed the on-the-record voting bill
that stops politicians from voting for massive spending projects in
secret.

We passed a sweeping earmark reform rule that makes politicians put
their names on the spending projects they used to secretively insert
into the budget.

We’ve passed numerous government restructuring bills to make
government more efficient and accountable, including Employment
Security Commission restructuring.

We still have a lot to do, but for the first time in a long time we
finally have real momentum on true conservative reforms. We might be
in the minority, but we have a strong team of conservatives fighting
for you in Columbia. Please keep talking. Get even louder. Yell as
much as you can. The politicians are taking notice and we’re getting
things done.

Today I’m asking for your help. I’ve got opposition and I won’t to
continue my work to change Columbia. Now that we have momentum, we
can’t just stop. We have to keep fighting.

Please click here and donate $100, $50, $20 or whatever you can afford today.

We’re going to change Columbia. And its all because of you.

You have earned the enthusiastic Endorsement of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party in your run for SC House of Representatives, District 68.

Now that we have finished selecting the candidates we are going to endorse, our membership will be switching over to campaign mode this week.

We want to help you win this primary!

We will be sending out a letter to our membership (175) and mailing list (1600) soon, requesting that they become proactive in getting out the vote on Primary day and supporting the candidates we have endorsed.

We are having flyers and business cards (attached) made early this week, with our endorsed candidates printed on them.

We would like to invite you to write a letter to the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, thanking us for our endorsement and emphasizing the strongest points that you would like to get across to the voters in the primary.

Your letter will go out in our e-mail campaign and to our PATH keyboard warriors.

If you have any campaign buttons left, we would like to have some ASAP, for our volunteers to wear while they are out campaigning for you.

Best regards,
Joe Dugan

Myrtle Beach Tea Party
Chairman of the Board

(843)234-0118
joembtp@gmail.com

“Failing to plan is planning to fail”

Upon receipt of the award, Representative Viers had this to say, “I am honored to receive this award from the Grand Strand Young Republicans. Their philanthropic and political activity in the community help to ensure that young people become and stay involved in the political process. I am proud to be a part of and help this organization engage the future voters of this great country.”

According to Heather Ammons, Chair of the Grand Strand Young Republicans, “Representative Viers has been a friend to the GSYR organization since our inception. He is a charter member and was the speaker at our first meeting in the fall of 2007. It is because of dedicated conservatives like Representative Viers that our organization continues to flourish and experience robust growth.”

Thad Viers represents District 68 in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

For additional information contact Heather Ammons, Chair, Grand Strand Young Republicans at (843) 457-4852 / grandstrandyrs@gmail.com.

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The Grand Strand Young Republicans is a group for those Republicans ages, 18-40, to help promote and advance Republican principles along the Grand Strand, which is chartered under the National and State Federation of Young Republicans. To learn more about the Grand Strand Young Republicans please visit our website at www.GrandStrandYoungRepublicans.com.

Friends-

We are facing tough times and I know that there’s a lot of anger out there. I’m angry too because politicians put us in this situation. They thought they could continue doing the same ole same ole while our economy and the entire world changed. Folks, this is why I’ve been fighting so hard over the past eight years. I could see that the government inefficiencies and wasteful projects were leading us toward trouble.

It doesn’t take a genius to know that you can’t spend more than you make. Yet that’s the Columbia mindset. This problem isn’t limited to Washington. We have it right here in South Carolina too.

I’ve fought for spending caps, more transparency and the government restructuring so desperately needed to make government more accountable.

Finally, now that we’re near rock bottom, the politicians are starting to wake up. They see what’s happening and now our message is finally resonating.

I’m more energized than ever and I’m ready to continue the fight. I hope you’ll consider making a donation today and help me as I face a tough re-election.

People are ready to toss out all the incumbents and truthfully… I can’t say I blame them. Even the good guys are getting caught up in this anti-incumbent environment. I hope you’ll help me as I try to swim against the tide.

Just click here now and donate to my campaign.

Thank you for all your support.

Sincerely,

Thad Viers

This Saturday, May 22 at the Forestbrook Clubhouse on Forestbrook Road, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, I will be hosting my Annual BBQ and Bluegrass for the district.

We will have plenty of BBQ from Big D’s and a spectacular Bluegrass band from the Charleston Bluegrass Society.
No Cost. Just a good time with good conservatives.

Please RSVP to tviers@yahoo.com if you plan to attend. There will be special gifts for the first 75 children that attend.

Hope to see you there!

Thad

Sanford said incentives unfairly benefit certain retailers, giving them an unfair advantage and that stores will come regardless of incentives if they can make money. He referenced recent efforts to attract Bass Pro Shops to Greenville and a $400 million mall to Jasper County in a speech at Tanger Outlets on U.S. 17.

Sanford praised Tanger Outlets for succeeding without any incentives.

“I have to give the Tanger folks credit. They’ve built three sets of shopping centers now … without incentives,” Sanford said.

“If you then give incentives to other folks, their competitors, what you’re doing is hurting the folks that built these things without incentives.”

The debate focuses around a bill offering a $9 million incentive to attract Bass Pro Shops to Greenville. That bill is now being rewritten in the S.C. House Ways and Means Committee. In Myrtle Beach, a Bass Pro Shops successfully opened in 2004 without incentives, another example of why such measures are unnecessary, Sanford said.

Another Senate proposal earlier this year would have given state tax money to Sembler Co., which wants to build a $400million shopping center in Jasper County, but that provision was stripped from a bill in March and replaced with local tax incentives.

This is not Sanford’s first fight over the incentives. A similar debate began in 2006 over a plan to offer Cabela’s, an outdoor supply store, a $9 million incentive to open a store in North Charleston, said Ben Fox, the governor’s communications director. The bill passed the legislature in two consecutive years and was met with Sanford’s veto each time.

In both cases, the state legislature overrode Sanford’s veto, he said.

Cabela’s ultimately never opened a store, so did not take advantage of the incentives.

Sanford said he would use his veto power on any similar provisions.

The incentives are not given out to benefit the economy, but to satisfy powerful lobbyists, said Ashley Landess, president of the S.C. Policy Council think tank.

“What is not working is a few politicians closing the door in Columbia and giving away public dollars to those special interests that hire the right lobbyists,” Landess said.

The money forces stores without incentives to subsidize their competitors, which does not allow free and fair competition that benefits our economy the most, she said.

Legislators who want to grow the economy should pursue tax relief for all businesses, Landess said.

Rep. Thad Viers, R-Myrtle Beach, said he would vote against the Bass Pro Shops bill when it comes to vote.

The government needs to stop giving public money to private companies, he said.

“Once we go down this road, you’re going to see tax incentives for everything that government should have nothing to do with,” said Viers, who is seeking re-election this year. “That’s what the marketplace is for, that’s what private enterprise is about.”

Read more: http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/04/07/1408131/sanford-retailers-dont-need-tax.html#ixzz0kW9lAN6T

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