EPISODE · Apr 8, 2026 · 8 MIN
Topic - Gov Forum April 10th; Topic: July 4th ,250th Anniversary; Al Sharpton comments
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
The final hour of The Charlie James Show on April 8, 2026, previews the upcoming April 10th Gubernatorial Forum, where key candidates will continue to debate infrastructure and state tax policies following their recent meeting at the University of South Carolina. James also touches on the accelerating plans for America’s 250th Anniversary on July 4th, specifically the "Salute to America 250" festivities and the controversy surrounding the redesign of commemorative coins. This discussion is framed by recent comments from Al Sharpton, who stated he would refuse to celebrate the milestone under the current administration, while also breaking down the rising tensions that led to the current Iranian ceasefire.
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00:00 I let's go to the W R D talk line, 800-905-0-989. We'll talk to Bruce. How you doing, Bruce? How's it going, Charlie? Love your show. Thank you, sir. Always good. Thank you, sir. What's up? just want to say April 10th, Friday, Indian land high school in Lancaster. Right. We're having a governor's forum. Doors open at 5 p.m. It's six to eight. And which put on by South Carolina Constitutional. 00:30 Republicans. not a GOP group. We're conservative. Okay. Let me ask you something. Are all the candidates going to be there? What does the slate look like? All five are going to be there. Really? Yes. All five has confirmed. All right. That's Ralph Norman, Pam Vett, everybody. Allen Wilson, Nancy Mase, Kimbrough. And Rom Ready? Rom Ready? 00:59 No, he didn't even answer the phone calls. Oh, really? get a hold of them. Wow. few people called him. Nobody could get a hold of the guy. That's interesting. So everybody's so bad. But still, I mean, we've got five of them out there. All right, again, that is they're at Indian Land High School Friday, April the 10th. The doors open at five, you said? Doors open at five. It started from six to eight. OK, that ought to be a good night. going to speak. 01:29 and to answer questions and this way people can find out about who's running. That's great because it's going to be a very important race coming up and whoever wins the primary on June 9th, you know they're going to be the governor, right? Primaries are primary. That's what we believe. You are absolutely right. I like that, Bruce. Primaries are primary and I appreciate you, buddy. Thank you very much. Hey, listen, after the event, give us a call back. Let us know how it went. 02:00 Sounds great and thanks for letting me announce that. Absolutely, Bruce. Anytime, pal. Anytime. So if anybody else out there has got a forum coming up or anything like that, hey, you pick up that phone and you give me a call. You are more than welcome. Or you can always shoot me an email, Charlie at nine eight nine W O R D dot com. That's Charlie at nine eight nine W O R D dot com. Again, again, very important. 02:30 It's important if you want change here in South Carolina and we're still trying to compile that list of everybody that's running for everything. It's kind of hard to do. Okay. Especially if you are like, what is your address and all that stuff. um But we are compiling that list and we're to give you a rundown of everybody that's running all throughout the state of South Carolina. So that's going to be very interesting to see. All WRD Talkline 800. 02:57 9050-989. And see, oh, oh, well, you know, it's coming up. I mean, after the primaries in June, we've got July 4th coming up. And that's going to be a big day. Because that is the day we're going to celebrate this nation's 250th anniversary. Well, should I say most of us are going to be celebrating 03:27 this nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary al sharpton is saying some folks out there shouldn't celebrate but they're going to celebrate the turn to fifty that a version of the country july four but that's not our celebration we will we will slayings and they celebrate seven assigned in the declaration of independence seventeen seventy six we would not even emancipated but eighty sixty three 03:56 So I don't know what everybody getting ready for a celebration. You know, it seems crazy for me to have on the birthday, had at your birthday party. That ain't my party. In fact, I'm thinking Saturday when I do my address to the convention, or calling for something on July 4th, like Frederick Douglass did. Why should we be celebrating that? We may need to do our own rally in Philly or somewhere that day, because 04:26 That's not our background. They're going to celebrate. If you wouldn't Reverend Al Sharpton, um can I tell you something that you might want to celebrate? Can I tell you just a little something you might want to celebrate? The fact 04:47 that we only ...
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