SC Senate doesn’t pass redistricting: Lou Rankin speech

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00:00 All right, welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. I hope you guys had a lovely Memorial Day weekend. Hope you got to take some time, spend it with your friends and your loved ones. And also I hope you took some, a little bit of time this weekend to remember those that have fallen to keep our nation free. Well, not in a real good mood right now. Just to let you know. 00:28 because what I said was going to happen Friday afternoon happened. And this is not because I'm some, you know, great prognosticator, but when you're around something long enough and you have seen the way people behave long enough, listen, previous behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. 00:57 And what happened in the South Carolina Senate this afternoon was just, I'm not shocked. Am I disappointed? Oh, no, I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked. You knew this was all part of the plan. You knew it was part of the plan. 01:16 these Republicans in the House and yes, Governor Henry McMaster did not want redistricting done in South Carolina. They didn't want it done. But because you guys started calling them and emailing them and, you know, screaming in their ear, I said, all right, well, we got it. You know what we got to do? Y'all know what we got to do around here. We got to at least pretend. We got to pretend to have some sort of vote. 01:46 We gotta pretend to put up with some sort of a fight so these people don't get all mad. Well, I hate to tell you this, people are mad at you now. And every one of you needs to be primary. Every single one of these people need to be primary. 02:05 This should be their last term. Last term. 02:12 Should be it. Done. 02:17 You should be Indiana. So then we got state representative, not state Senator Lou Crankin. But let's just go to the uh state, the House of Representatives. This is what really gets me. This is what really gets me. So this was, yeah, this was on May 20th. It was just a couple of days ago, May 20th. Lou Crankin, state representative Lou Crankin, the young man, um got up. 02:47 And he posted this. said, I didn't hold back on the Democrats. Oh, I didn't hold back. I really gave the Democrats the dickens in my speech in the House. And boy, I didn't hold back. Hey, hey, hey, pal, you got the wrong enemy. You got the wrong enemy. The Democrats, this is one of the few states in the country where the Democrats are not our problem. We don't have to worry about them. 03:17 They are so few in number, they should not have any power. And the only power they do have is the power that the rhinos give them. So, Rankin, one of my thoughts was, wait a minute, why would Luke Rankin get up there and call out the Democrats on this thing? The Democrats aren't the ones, yeah, they're block everything, but that's no, we should never be surprised about that. Oh, oh, I get it. 03:47 You don't want to make you boys in the Rhino caucus and that's what I'm going to start calling the Republican caucus from now on. You don't want to make you boys in the Rhino caucus man. So you got to give some impassioned speech on the floor of the House and who you going to blame? The Democrats. You're not going to blame the people that are actually causing the problem, which is the Rhino caucus. 04:10 You're not going do that. So now there's a whole, we just didn't have time. oh early voting is already, you, hell, you knew this on Friday. You knew this on Thursday. You knew this on Wednesday. And you know what else you knew? You knew it back in January when the Freedom Caucus put up a bill to redistrict South Carolina. You knew you did. shot it down then. 04:37 This is all a very expensive show by these people in Columbia. And that's all it was. It was just a show. So now we got these folks, Bennett, Kampson, Cash, Kroemer, Davis, Hembree, Johnson, Massey, Peeler, the other Luke Rankin, Stubbs and Zell. I hope you've enjoyed your time in the South Carolina State Senate because I'm going to make s ...

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