The Senate is preparing a group of bills they are going to try to move in the House. They need these bills for their re-elections this Nov & yesterday they again failed at passing the SAVE AMERICA ACT. No members should be supporting their bills until they deliver on voter ID.
💥BOMBSHELL!💥South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette outright theft by the regime, dressed up in legislative sleight-of-hand and stuffed into the state budget like a dirty secret, trying to ram through a $117–154 million taxpayer-funded bailout for Scout Motors, a failing Volkswagen subsidiary, by hiding it in three separate agency budgets using sneaky provisos (47.22, 84.20, and 112.1). They’re raiding “excess debt service funds” from the Departments of Natural Resources, Transportation, and Commerce to paper over Scout’s catastrophic cost overruns on an industrial desert of an EV plant that the market has already rejected. This is not governance.
Let that sink in.
These same people already shoved $1.3 billion in corporate welfare down South Carolina taxpayers’ throats in 2023. McMaster signed it with a big grin, and there’s Pamela Evette right beside him, clapping like a seal at a circus. Now, just three years later, the EV market has cratered, production is delayed, Scout snubbed South Carolina for its corporate headquarters, and the dynamic duo is back for another nine-figure handout, this time trying to launder it through the back door so the public won’t notice.
They’re even trying to loot another $100 million a year from the Education Lottery to subsidize workforce training for this boondoggle.
Let me repeat that: they want to take money meant for South Carolina kids’ education and hand it to a German-owned electric vehicle company that can’t get its own finances in order.
This is the very definition of crony capitalism. This is exactly what Attorney General Alan Wilson called it. “crony capitalism and bad business.” This is what Congressman Ralph Norman rightly labeled “a bunch of crooks.”
And now the McMaster-Evette administration is doubling down, forcing a budget stalemate rather than admit they got fleeced by a woke German automaker.
South Carolina taxpayers are not an ATM for failing EV plants. We are not obligated to prop up Henry McMaster’s legacy projects or Pamela Evette’s political ambitions. The fact that they would try to hide this bailout in obscure provisos, after already giving away $1.3 billion, shows contempt for the people who actually pay the bills.
This isn’t leadership. This is corruption with a “Republican” label slapped on it.
Pamela Evette and Henry McMaster owe every South Carolina taxpayer a public apology and an immediate promise to kill this bailout. If they refuse, voters should remember their names, and their clapping hands. when they go to the polls.
Enough is enough. No more secret corporate welfare. No more McMaster-Evette taxpayer rip-offs.
@MargoinWNC I work in a mfg plant in Greenville, SC. It’s like a migrant caravan going into work. I have to use a translator app daily to communicate what I need done.