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‘PROJECT VOTE SMART’ SURVEY SHOWS CONGRESSIONAL CHALLENGER WAY OUT OF TOUCH WITH SC
Abortion should always be legal. Off-shore drilling should be banned. Same sex marriage should be legalized.
Those opinions generally run counter to what the majority of South Carolinians — even in less socially conservative areas like Charleston and Myrtle Beach — believe or want to hear from their leaders. Yet those are just some of the answers given by 1st Congressional District challenger (liberal) Linda Ketner on a recent “Project Vote Smart” survey.
Ketner also said on the survey that she would spend more money on the arts, the environment and national parks, but decrease defense and agriculture funding. She also said she would just maintain law enforcement and homeland security appropriations, despite previous claims that the Port of Charleston isn’t safe.
Other highlights from Ketner’s survey include her support for: maintaining the current welfare system, raising corporate taxes, socializing health care, creating a Palestinian state, withdrawing troops from Iraq, increasing union power, including sexual orientation and gender identity in federal anti-discrimination laws; and her opposition to: the death penalty, reducing government regulation of the private sector, eliminating U.S. aid to nations with documented human rights abuses, and imposing economic sanctions on countries like China and Venezuela.
Ketner also opposes developing nuclear and clean coal technologies as well as natural gas, and supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that doesn’t include returning to their home countries.
Some of the “best” answers, however, were the ones she didn’t give. Ketner failed to say whether she supported capital gains taxes or the death tax and wrote nothing when asked about family income taxes and gun control.
If all of those things combined aren’t enough to show you just how out of touch Ketner is with South Carolina, then you must be reading this from California, France or some other foreign country.
And Henry Brown didn’t participate in the survey
redreader,
That goes back to my previous statements that Brown is not great, but Ketner under absolutely no circumstance is even within the stratosphere of a better option. It’s not my district, but if it were, I would vote for a piece of shoe leather over Ketner.
She’d get my vote!
And her policies differ from Obama’s how exactly? Not only do the voters of South Carolina oppose her platform, but she is clearly off her rocker if she honestly thinks those policies will strengthen the economy and national security. Ridiculous.
I really want more women in the legislature, but not with these kind of policies.
I knew there was something suspicious about her when there was no mention of political party affiliation in any of her TV ads. I figured she was liberal but I didn’t realize she was THIS liberal! I graduated from a women’s college and like to support women whenever I can but she does NOT get my vote!
Well, everything you say makes me want to vote for her more. Maybe a win by Ketner would move our state just a little further from it’s fascist tendencies. Even if Linda loses, the failed conservative age is over. To quote Reagan, “lying on the ash heap of history”. An enlightened, progressive social democratic age with a large middle class has already begun. The days of Scrooge at the top, and Cratchet as the indentured servant are over.
She’s got my vote as well. You said it Adam, Henry Brown ain’t worth a dang.