Lindsey Graham Censured by South Carolina County GOP for Infrastructure Vote

[riversedge]

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

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The GOP has gone insane. They are upset about the "Green' inclusion.

[Turbineguy]

1. Life as a republican is difficult if

you are not crazy enough.

[Harker]

9. He's plenty crazy enough, just not the right sort. n/t

[onecaliberal]

2. Can we have his states share if the money?

The red states should refuse the money.

[mpcamb]

6. Don't send them a dime.

Clearly they don't want it.

[joetheman]

3. Good. Do not pass GO. Do not accept any of the funding and vote Lindsey out of office.

Sounds like a win-win to me.

[turbinetree]

4. Pork Barrel politics..........maybe these dipshits should look at Boeing and the building of the 787

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]

5. So ONE county out of 46

The rest of them should pony up!

[Moebym]

7. My guess is

They didn't have a problem with tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.

[Rebl2]

8. You can

be sure they didn’t

[iemanja]

10. Notice how Republicans suddenly start to care about spending

when the Dems holds the presidency, but when they are in power, they spend like drunken sailors.

[raccoon]

12. YeH, we should really rub that in. Nt

[spike jones]

11. Welfare state. For every $1 SC pays in fed taxes. it gets back $1.71. n/t

[Bayard]

13. "protect businesses' investment"

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]

14. Fine. No money for you.

[catbyte]

15. Translation: "We can't let Biden succeed in any way." They were fine with tfg blowing up the deficit

I really, really, really despise all of these assholes. Pardon my French.

[Claire Oh Nette]

16. They're making Censure less harsh

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]

17. Sigh

[ZonkerHarris]

18. They were cool when he voted to give billionaires a trillion dollar tax break so they can go

fuck themselves.

[BlueStater]

19. These people have lost their fucking minds. n/t

[Beacool]

20. One of the biggest Trump butt kissers got censured by his own party?

[Xipe Totec]

21. Dumber than a bag of hammers.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Yeah guys, but 1925 was a long time ago

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]

23. If they don't want their county to get any infrastructure money

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]

24. Throwing Leningrad Lindsey under the bus. Didn't take long, did it? GOP is insane. nt

[twodogsbarking]

25. Y'all don't have to take the money.

Just refuse it. No one can make you take money. Stand up for what you believe.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Totally insane.

Cutting off one’s trunk to spite the face and all.



On reflection, not a bad idea at that.

[Martin68]

27. I suspect MAGAts are getting a little confused about who to believe and support. Their favorite

right wing politicians are being censored by the Republican Party.Which one are they going to believe?