Jay W. Ragley

Husband to @CABar, Father to Jack, Ellis, and @RagleyBeagles. Views expressed are mine alone.

[Jay W. Ragley @ragley]

@cstegmaier We use the same in education. Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

[Charter Institute at Erskine @ErskineCharters]

This Veterans Day, we pause to honor all of the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces. We are deeply grateful to every Veteran for their dedication, sacrifice, and ongoing contributions to our communities and the future of America for generations to come.

To express our heartfelt gratitude, the Institute hosted a special Veterans Day Breakfast to celebrate and break bread with our local heroes. Special tribute videos were sent with love and respect from students at Institute schools across the Midlands. Happy Veterans Day!

[Jay W. Ragley @ragley]

Thank you Veterans for all you do for our country!

[AdvocatusUSA @AdvocatusUSA]

To all those who have served, and those who continue to serve, thank you for protecting our liberty.

[Whitney Michael @whitney_woolf]

Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to lead the transition staff of @GovElectWilson and for a team who is ready to work!

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

I'm a little late to this but they issued an updated staff list

[Jay W. Ragley @ragley]

RT @FTFonFS1: BREAKING NEWS right before the trade deadline 🚨

FTF trades Host @kevinwildes & two 1sts for Emmy-Winner @dpshow & 17th 🤯 htt…

[Governor-Elect Alan Wilson @GovElectWilson]

My first job taught me the value of hard work. Now, those lessons are coming full circle as I prepare to serve as South Carolina’s next governor.

It was special to return to Reeley’s Body Shop, where I had my very first job washing cars, to announce our transition team.

Just like the work done in that shop, our mission is to repair what’s broken, improve what isn’t working and make government work better for the people of South Carolina. https://t.co/iRGGkSK0nE

[Jay W. Ragley @ragley]

@WallStreetApes They delta between Sec. of State and Governor is 2%. I've seen that often. It's the gap between Governor and US Senate that is notable.

[Steve Michael @SteveWMichael]

Heck of a group!

[Heathwood Athletics @AthleticsHHES]

Congratulations to football player Keon McKinley ‘27 for being nominated for the 2026 Richland County Player of the Year for varsity football.

Highlander Nation is very proud of you!

#GoHall

[Jay W. Ragley @ragley]

@AudreyHudson Old enough to remember the trailers parked in the middle of Russell courtyard in 2003 when Sen. Lindsey Graham was elected.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Term update: the Vikings are trading a 2027 third-round pick for Kirk Cousins.

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

Rest of the crew include many campaign alums

[Nick Reynolds @IAmNickReynolds]

Inbox: Governor-elect Alan Wilson announces transition team staff. Main names below -- all three have been with him for quite some time.

[Joseph Bustos @JoeBReporter]

First day at the @postandcourier. It's good to be here. The new email address is [email protected]

[Governor-Elect Alan Wilson @GovElectWilson]

Welcome to my official X account as Governor-Elect of South Carolina!

I'm honored by the trust South Carolinians have placed in me. I'll use this account to share updates on our transition, priorities and the work ahead to put South Carolina families first. Let's get to work!

[Charter Institute at Erskine @ErskineCharters]

Today at the Institute, administrators gathered for an intensive accountability training on High School On Track to Graduate metrics and Grad Rate Coding. Attendees unpacked complex cohort data and walked away with actionable strategies to keep students on track for graduation.

Thank you to all the leaders who attended and brought their commitment to student success!

[Steve Michael @SteveWMichael]

Nevermind not done!!! The reason why people don’t do long lists like this is the undoubtedly leave off someone. I just proved that.

@hank_dillard came on in the runoff. Maybe I didn’t add Hank because, since he came on board all Hank has done is solve problems in a low key way. Hank served as bodyman, intern recruiter, organizer of people and literally a hundred other random things that are important (he’s probably out picking up yard signs in right of ways right now at 7:00 at night on a Sunday). I like baseball a good bit. Hank was like picking up a free agent without a long track record and then realizing he’s probably a ten year guy for your team. Brightest of bright futures whether that’s a legislative or comms path.

[Steve Michael @SteveWMichael]

Final, final thought. I didn’t name the consultants involved because I wanted this to be about the day to day staff but we had a great team of professionals who added a tremendous amount of skill and know how to a pretty young group overall. Drea Byars did a great job fundraising. The modeling and polling firms literally became our North Star for the last 90 days.

Great team, will never likely get assembled again but great team. In a different cycle, I think they could have broken the records, but it wasn’t in the cards and instead you take the win and move on.

If you are a presidential sniffing around (there’s a lot of that right now) I just gave you a great shopping list. If you have needs in government or a campaign, look at these kids above. Great people with great work ethics. Happy shopping!

[Steve Michael @SteveWMichael]

Ok, last part of the team. Operations.

Let's start with Team @MikeForSC . Two people really put in a lot of labor on his campaign (his consultants Lance Williams and @MichaelMule were great to work with and were only value adds), @dylanb1776 and @_meredithcook . Im going to start with Dylan. Dylan might be the ultimate team player. There literally wasn't a job Dylan didn't help with. Dylan was put in charge of coordinating signs for the statewides. That's probably the worst job you can be assigned to. Dylan just said "okay great" and started to work on it. When we'd add hours to the schedule for drive time, he would just say "okay great". Dylan has a bright future not just because he's smart and works hard, but he has a great attitude and will work till the task is completed.

Along that same line, @_meredithcook came onto the campaign in the primary and made hours and hours of calls. When we won, we all said we had to keep her and made up a job so she'd stay on. First she was in charge of the office. When she easily handled that, we kept giving her more and more. Every task, every detail, she excelled at. Couldn't be more excited for Meredith's future.

I can't find Woods Wooten's twitter handle, which feels weird since he handled all our online media..Regardless, it was a pleasure to watch Woods grow throughout the years. Talented and innovated. Excited to see what he does next. Very smart and gifted individual with a lot of drive to succeed.

@liya_moryossef Started as an intern and forced her way into new media (I mean that as a good thing). Half the graphics were her, a lot of the video was her. She has a year and a half left at school (seems to be a theme for Wilson's team). When she gets out she will be an incredibly marketable person with a real skillset to sell.

On the staff, last but not least John Moore. John came on around October of last year when our schedule was a mess. John dove into that and worked to fix it with a lot of detail. Look, being a scheduler on a campaign isn't a dream. It might be the worst job because you are basically an air traffic controller. Anything fails, it's your fault. Good things happen, well that's your job. John did a great job making lemonade out of lemons more times than I can count.

On the final note here. I'm sure I'm leaving folks out. There's some many interns and door knockers that really weren't interns or knockers by the end but core parts of the team. All of them are basically 21 and under and all just surprised me how important of functions they handled and how well they did those functions. A campaign doesn't exist and doesn't work well without each and everyone of their efforts.

So there you have it. Was it the perfect campaign, I don't know. Did we will, certainly. I think in the coming decade though, one thing I know for certain is the kids that made up so much of this race will be scattered throughout South Carolina in government, consulting or whatever else they decide. Grateful they were all part of the team. Campaign couldn't function and do as much as they did without every last one of them.