Time For President Tim Scott?
By Bob Small
Tim Scott, a 57 year Afro-American Republican who is US Senator from South Carolina, is seeking to be the second Afro-American US President.
“Biden and the Democrats are ruining our country and I’m doing what I can to stop this and restore faith in America,” he says
Among the five things The New York Times says about him is that t he went from his US House seat to the Senate by appointment via his fellow 2024 Presidential hopeful, then Gov. Nikki Haley.
Also In Iowa he said that he was “living proof” that “we are indeed a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression.”
The Times also reports his criticism of Trump, his advocacy of police reform, and his anti-abortion stance
Scott points out that the Democrats would “grant abortions up to 52 weeks”.
Among the 55 things Politico says you need to know about him are that he is a teetotaler, that local Chick Fil-A owner (John Moniz) was an early mentor, that he graduated from Charleston Southern (1985) with a political science degree, and that he started Tim Scott Allstate in 1993.
He beat Paul Thurmond, (son of Strom Thurmond), in his 2010 Congressional race. As a state Representative, he joined the Women’s Caucus. He did not join the US Congressional Black Caucus.
As a US Senator, he went on an “undercover” listening tour, working at baseline jobs to meet people rather than as a US Senator.
“You can have a real conversation with the dude on the bus”.
One last quote is “what happened on January 6th is wrong”.
See the article for the other forty six.
His financial mentor for 2024 is Larry Ellison, the 78 yr old founder of Oracle, ranked by Forbes as the fourth richest man in the world.
Ellison previously supported another southern Politician who ran for President, Bill Clinton.
