Governor Series - interview with SC Liutenant Governor and Gubnatorial Candidate Pamela Evette - Part 1

00:00 Welcome to News Talk 98.9, WORD's exclusive South Carolina Governor Series. Powered by Gosling Electric. An in-depth free flow conversation with the leading candidates. Here are your hosts, Charlie James and Joey Hudson. 00:16 Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Charlie James along with Joey Hudson. This is the 98.9 WORD Governor Series and we're being joined this afternoon by Lieutenant Governor Pamela Ebbett and we want to thank our friends at Gosling Electrical for sponsoring this segment. Lieutenant Governor, welcome. Thank you for being with us this afternoon for the Governor's Forum. Redistricting being discussed right now in the State House. How important is it that we get this done and 00:43 Does your opinion on this differ from the governor's? No. First off, I was at the State House all morning watching um everybody go through the 600 amendments. I want to start by saying um great job to Speaker Smith coming in with some new rules to try to move this along. We definitely don't want the clock to run out on it. It's really important. It's important because the people of South Carolina want to see it done. It's important because it's 01:11 really bigger than even our state, right? This is an issue that will shape what happens in our nation and we can't lose the Senate. We can't lose the House. We need to give President Trump everything he needs to move forward. um In South Carolina, we deserve to have a 7-0. We deserve to send seven conservative members to Congress. um And you know, what scares me, what scares the governor, 01:41 is losing and you know what the next two years will be like. It will be impeach, impeach, bottleneck, impeach. um But you know, we feel that this is what the citizens want. This is what's best for our nation. And Charlie, Joey, it hasn't been that long ago. And I hope people remember just how horrible the era of the Biden administration was with an open border. 02:09 and fentanyl running over that border and lawlessness in the streets and defund the police. We could go on and on with those horrible, horrible policies. That's why it's important to do what we're doing. That's why it's important what's happening in other red states. And I've been saying this for the last week now. Thank you to President Trump once again for putting a spotlight on what the Democrats have been doing forever. And as soon as he does that, they try to change the narrative. I mean, it's the Democrat way. 02:39 Let's change the narrative, let's flip it around, let's confuse people. And they're doing it right in the house. We saw it happen in South Carolina State House. Democrats coming in and trying to confuse the issue, basically saying, oh, if you move this map, we could pick up a seat, an extra seat, we could pick up two extra seats. It could be a four, three, it could be a five, two. But I mean, I would love your opinions because you hear from listeners all the time. 03:08 If the Democrats felt like they could pick up one or two seats, would they have thrown down 600 amendments to stop this? Yeah. Before we move on to this too, the NAACP announcing boycotts of South Carolina encouraging young African-Americans not to come to school here, not to play sports here. Your response to that? Well, I think what they're doing is they're actually hurting African-American young adults. 03:34 This is a great state, we have a great educational system. mean, anytime you start playing these games, and we see what happens. I am so disenchanted with leadership. We can, we might as well talk about SC State, right? Let's just rip the Band-Aid off. And that was something, to me, where I became angry was that where was the leadership? 04:03 Where were professors? Why weren't they sitting down these young adults and telling them real facts? President Trump has done more for historically black colleges and universities than any president in our history. That's a fact. You know, the General Assembly, we have super ...