{"id":5191,"date":"2018-05-11T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T16:14:21","slug":"network-endorses-james-smith-for-sc-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/11\/network-endorses-james-smith-for-sc-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Progressive Network endorses James Smith for SC governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>James Smith addresses members of the SC Progressive Network<\/a> on April 7 at our annual spring conference at the Lourie Center in Columbia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In its first gubernatorial endorsement in 22 years, the SC Progressive Network<\/a> (501-C-4) is supporting James Smith in the June 12 Democratic primary for governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have endorsed Rep. Smith because he is the only candidate who has the vision and experience to work with the state\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature – and can win the general election. Smith has been a reliable ally for the Network since our founding in 1995.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf the eligible citizens in our state aren\u2019t voting,\u201d said Network Executive Director Brett Bursey. \u201cMost of them don\u2019t bother to vote because they don\u2019t see that doing so makes any difference in their lives. We need to be addressing those people. That\u2019s our base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith has long supported our call for a moral state budget that makes it a priority to fund public services instead of corporate tax subsidies.<\/p>\n

Smith supports our proposal that political districts be drawn by the voters rather than politicians. He has pledged to veto redistricting plans that don\u2019t create competitive districts, giving our campaign to end gerrymandering in South Carolina more time to organize support for our bills to remedy the problem. He is on board our DemocraSC 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n

These challenging times are an historic opportunity to stop South Carolina\u2019s race to the bottom. Smith is positioned to help us make significant change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Smith addresses members of the SC Progressive Network on April 7 at our annual spring conference at the Lourie Center in Columbia. \u2022\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 \u2022 In its first gubernatorial endorsement in 22 years, the SC Progressive Network (501-C-4) is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}