Lindsey Graham Censured by South Carolina County GOP for Infrastructure Vote
Source: newsweek
By Andrew Stanton On 8/14/21 at 4:56 PM EDT
The Aiken County Republican Party in South Carolina announced Friday it voted to censure Senator Lindsey Graham over his support of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.
The group said in a statement to Newsweek Saturday that the vote was not against "realistic achievable and necessary infrastructure projects" and that it understands the importance of strong infrastructure including roads, bridges and rural broadband internet access.
"Senator Graham failed to live up to the conservative Republican principles that we elected him to follow by supporting a bill that does not put strong limits on ambiguous Green focused studies and pork barrel projects that don't really address the true needs in rural America," according to the statement.
The group is concerned about "runaway spending of the post Covid recovery that seems to have a lot of federal strings attached." It feels the bill did not do enough to limit green infrastructure spending or protect businesses' investment in infrastructure projects.
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He pointed to parts of the legislation that included "substantial" funding for South Carolina's road infrastructure...........................
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-censured-south-carolina-county-gop-infrastructure-vote-1619443
The GOP has gone insane. They are upset about the "Green' inclusion.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)you are not crazy enough.
Harker
(14,024 posts)onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)The red states should refuse the money.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Clearly they don't want it.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)Sounds like a win-win to me.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)they live by pork barrel politics in the state...and has for graham cracker... he's still an enabler to that POS in Florida with the secret vaccine shot got and he didn't tell his followers he got.....and he has over 600,000 deaths on his hands....
BumRushDaShow
(129,113 posts)The rest of them should pony up!
Moebym
(989 posts)They didn't have a problem with tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.
be sure they didnt
iemanja
(53,035 posts)when the Dems holds the presidency, but when they are in power, they spend like drunken sailors.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)spike jones
(1,680 posts)Bayard
(22,100 posts)That's the most important thing.
So, what's little Lindsay going to say about that? He can't defend himself without defending the bill.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)catbyte
(34,403 posts)I really, really, really despise all of these assholes. Pardon my French.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Just like the GOP made impeachment of Shrub seem like retribution for impeaching Clinton, they're censuring their own to lessen the impact and turn public reprimand and shame into no big deal cancel culture whininess.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,229 posts)fuck themselves.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,190 posts)Maybe time to give it up? Realize the world has moved on? New ideas, new investment projects? It's still all capitalism, and good for growth.
Retrograde
(10,137 posts)it can go someplace where it'll be appreciated. Oh wait - the red state GOP are cheerful takers, as long as the money comes from elsewhere
Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)Just refuse it. No one can make you take money. Stand up for what you believe.
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)Cutting off ones trunk to spite the face and all.
On reflection, not a bad idea at that.
Martin68
(22,822 posts)right wing politicians are being censored by the Republican Party.Which one are they going to believe?