Rep. Kambrell Garvin

Fighting the good fight. Mo’s hubby, Wren’s daddy, SC State Representative, believer, fmr. teacher & lawyer.

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

Today, I took the Oath of Office on a bible that belonged to my sharecropper great-grandparents, administered by the second African American to serve in the SC Senate since Reconstruction and became the second youngest legislator of the 170 member SC General Assembly. Grateful.

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

My heart continues to break for the family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton. Please find my full statement below.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BOOM 💥

NEW: South Carolina Republicans saw the insane lines and slammed the brakes on another gerrymandering circus targeting Black voters and Jim Clyburn.

S Carolina Dems made it clear: changing maps after voting already started is crazy work!

[ACLU of South Carolina @ACLU_SC]

BREAKING: South Carolina lawmakers have rejected a proposal to rig election maps. You did this. You protested, you called, you voted. Our lawmakers listened.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Some good news today.

South Carolina has chosen NOT to move forward with gerrymandering for the time being.

AND a court has blocked Alabama’s gerrymander.

The fight continues. But these small victories are important.

Keep the faith.

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

A win for democracy! 🎉

[Adam Morgan @RepAdamMorgan]

🚨BREAKING—South Carolina Redistricting likely DEAD!

Vital cloture vote to limit debate and force a vote in the SC Senate FAILS 20-24.

Republican Nos—
Bennett, Campsen, Cash, Cromer
Davis, Hembree, Johnson, Massey
Peeler, Rankin, Stubbs, & Zell

Citing Democrat’s argument that “early voting began today so it’s too late.”

Looks like it was all a set up.

[Joseph Bustos 🔥 @JoeBReporter]

SC Senate just voted 26-18 to continue the redistricting bill, which essentially kills the bill.

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

@voteleber Communities of Interest

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

He’s rights — it is egregious. My constiuents in Blythewood and NE Columbia would share a Congressional Representative with folks in Pickens County which is 100+ miles away and are in no way communities of interest.

[Lucy Valeski @ValeskiLucy]

After voting in Orangeburg, U.S. House Rep. Jim Clyburn said the proposed congressional map was probably the most “egregious” he has seen since the 1890s.

“How do you get a congressional district to go from Oconee County to Richland County and say it's constitutional?”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.

[carlito @NorthEastGroove]

Reminder that the first Memorial Day was celebrates by former enslaved African Americans in Charleston, SC in 1865. It was first known as Decoration Day.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats in the Congress are being threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that is rolling back civil rights."

[HBCU Alum @hbcualum]

Elizabeth Eckford is 84 and still with us, a living reminder that history isn't always ancient. At 15, she became one of the Little Rock Nine, walking alone into Central High in 1957 while facing a screaming mob of segregationists. She later graduated from Central State Univ.

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

Travis Alexander, from the Richland County elections office, now explaining the impact of the proposed maps, which would divide the county into three districts and split some 20 precincts.

At minimum, impact is $800,000, less than half of which -- $347k -- will be reimbursed.

[Joseph Bustos 🔥 @JoeBReporter]

SC Elections Director Conway Belangia tells senators he estimates his agency will need $5.3 million to $6 million in emergency funding to hold congressional primaries in August.

[USC Impact @uofscimpact]

Happy birthday to District 82 Representative and @UofSCEducation alumnus Bill Clyburn! 🤙🎉

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” -MLK

The SC House will gavel in at 10am today (5/19/26) for an unprecedented third legislative session ordered by Donald Trump via Henry McMaster to take up the issue of mid-decade redistricting.

[Joseph Bustos 🔥 @JoeBReporter]

Several times during this SC House redistricting debate, House Democrats have conspicuously repeated the chamber has 124 members, not 140 members.

[Joseph Bustos 🔥 @JoeBReporter]

State Rep. Spencer Wetmore, D-Charleston, says this move by House Republicans is “changing the rules of the game.”

[Rep. Kambrell Garvin @Kambrell]

🚨SC Redistricting Alert 🚨

The SC House of Representatives will gavel in at 11am today (Monday, May 18th) for an unprecedented legislative session ordered by Donald Trump via Henry McMaster to take up the issue of mid-decade redistricting.

[Sen. Deon Tedder @deon_tedder]

“We are the most heavily gerrymandered republican state in the Country currently” - Senate Majority Leader of South Carolina

I agree and that’s why we shouldn’t further gerrymander… #scpol