Spotlight on the SC 5th Congressional District

Submitted by IP on Wed, 2010-04-14 12:10
Republican Winner, Mick Mulvaney
The 5th Congressional District of South Carolina is in northern South Carolina and borders on North Carolina. It includes all of Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Marlboro, Newberry and York Counties and portions of Florence, Lee and Sumter Counties. Outside the rapidly growing city of Rock Hill, the district is mostly rural and agricultural. Historically a Democrat Party stronghold, few of the area's Democrats can be described as liberal by national standards. There are significant blocs of Republican voters in Cherokee County and in the expanding Charlotte suburbs. Democrat John Spratt, powerful U.S. House Budget Committee Chair, had represented the district since 1983 before being defeated on Nov. 2 by state Sen. Mick Mulvaney, 55% to 45%. Mulvaney will oppose tax increases, increased government spending and more government intrusion into private sector businesses. He will champion personal freedoms, ethics and transparency, and the protection of innocent life. He is exactly the kind of Constitutional conservative needed in the halls of Congress.
Mick Mulvaney
  • Honors Scholar, Georgetown University, International Economics, Commerce and Finance
  • Law Degree, University of North Carolina, Chancellor’s Scholar
  • Attorney at James, McElroy & Diehl, Charlotte, NC, 1992-97
  • Own law firm, 1997-2000
  • Experience in the homebuilding, real estate and restaurant businesses
  • Harvard Business School, 2006
  • Elected to SC House, 2006
  • Elected to SC Senate, 2008
  • Issues: Limited role for government, end to deficit spending, lower capital gains, business and personal income taxes, market based health care reform, no more bailouts, energy independence, transparency, sanctity of life, term limits

ISSUES

  • Role of Government: I believe in the United States Constitution. I believe in the concept of a limited federal government. I believe that the federal government’s primary duty is to safeguard our personal freedoms so that we can reach our highest potential as individuals.
  • Spending: The deficit spending must end. Now. This year. It is time for the federal government to live within its means.
  • Jobs: We need to immediately eliminate the capital gains tax, lower tax rates on business, and cut income tax rates. The best thing that the federal government can do to create jobs is to get out of the way and let the American people — the American people, collectively known as private enterprise and the free market – do what they do best: create, innovate, produce … and hire.
  • Health Care: The solutions can be found – as they are in so many other parts of our economy — in more personal control and free market competition, less government intervention, and some common-sense reforms. This means private purchase and ownership of policies (and the portability that goes with it), interstate competition, an end to the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies, and a crackdown on frivolous malpractice lawsuits.
  • Bailouts: Simply put: no more bailouts. Failure is just as much a part of our capitalist system as success. In fact, business failures are often the genesis of tremendous innovation and improvement.
  • Cap-and-Trade: Simply put: no more bailouts. Failure is just as much a part of our capitalist system as success. In fact, business failures are often the genesis of tremendous innovation and improvement.
  • Transparency: People need to have confidence that the system works, and that laws are applied evenly and fairly to all. The best way to do this is to simply let people know what is going on with their own government.
  • Sanctity of Life: I believe that life begins at conception.
  • Term Limits: Before I got into government, I opposed term limits. Having seen government up close, I have learned my lesson. I support terms limits.
I believe in the United States Constitution. I believe in the concept of a limited federal government. I believe that the federal government’s primary duty is to safeguard our personal freedoms so that we can reach our highest potential as individuals. Somehow our government has forgotten that. In just a generation Washington has gone from “Ask not what your country can do for you….” to “We will guarantee your GM warranty.”
Closing Statements in Mulvaney/Spratt Debate
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