Jackie Edgerton

I believe in the absolute right to life at conception. The purposeful destruction of an unborn child is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman, and I stand for the delivery of the live baby in such rare circumstances, not abortion. The baby may be too early to survive after delivery, but there is a fundamental difference between performing medically necessary treatment on the mother that results in the loss of the baby and the purposeful abortion of the baby. In regard to babies conceived during rape or incest, a woman who has survived sexual assault already has suffered violence and injustice and deserves strong and unwavering support and advocacy for her injuries and during her pregnancy. However, to undergo an abortion to kill the innocent baby does not rectify the violence the woman has suffered and answers violence with more violence. I strongly stand for supporting sexual assault victims who have resulting pregnancies and for the infrastructure to assist them throughout and after the pregnancy, to include adoption and placement of the baby should the mother so choose.

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I support the SC Senate's current pending state tax bill that cuts the top income tax rate from 7% to 5.7%, which applies to income over approximately 15k and puts us closer in line with neighboring states. I also support cutting our corporate tax rate across the board from 6% to 3% to support our local small businesses while also attracting corporations and manufacturers to SC rather than our government providing one off tax exemptions to companies in exchange for promises of job creation. We should not put the government in the position of picking winners and losers and instead should allow market forces and competition to dictate success.

South Carolina law requires the Governor to submit a balanced budget to the legislature, and the legislature in turn must pass a balanced budget each year.

Strongly Disagree

I support taxpayer-funded education for primary and secondary education; not for college.

Strongly Disagree

None.

Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary.

There must always be legally enforceable exemptions, to include for religious and medical reasons.

The United States should continue intelligence work in the middle east and alliance and training of non-terrorist governments, military, and law enforcement agencies in middle eastern countries, as well as continue our intelligence work that monitors potential terrorist activity targeted at Americans and/or American lands.

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Those who follow our immigration laws and are law abiding individuals in their own countries who seek to come to the United States for education, employment, or to be with family members should be allowed to immigrate under a system that justly and fairly goes through applications based on the economic needs in the US for employment from those outside the USA; higher education with openings for students; and families looking to reunite should take precedence. Further, an allowance, criteria, and process for law abiding refugees fleeing humanitarian crises and individual asylum seekers should be established that also works with other countries to assist with immigration and settlement of refugees in other countries.

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Agree

My faith is clear that marriage is between a man and woman, and government should never be allowed to dictate to churches what marriages they must preside over. However, I do not oppose civil unions defined by civil law.

Strongly Disagree

My Christian faith is my guide in life. I believe that the Bible is the word of God and provides us with clear instruction to be bound to the higher moral authority and ethics of right and wrong.

Strongly Disagree

South Carolina still is in need of 1) banning ballot boxes and ballot harvesting; 2) requirement of identification of SS# or license or state ID# for absentee ballot submission; 3) signature comparison requirement for absentee ballots submitted; 3) a systematic and yearly routine verification of the accuracy of voter rolls in every precinct; 4) use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement Program to help identify non-citizens who register to vote; 5) require those assisting voters to provide their identity and reason for assistance; 6) the state legislature needs standing to sue to ensure compliance with election laws as passed by the legislature.

Racism is inherently wrong, and any illegal act motivated by racism, whether that be discrimination in public accommodations, employment, education, or crime, among others, is addressed by our current Title VII federal laws and state counterparts and federal and state criminal code and laws.

Strongly Disagree

Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy;

Neutral

I do not believe that we should drill for oil off of the coast of South Carolina. While I appreciate that hydraulic fracking is a much safer and cleaner process, I also know that the resources off of the coast of South Carolina are significantly less than in other areas of our country.

To provide for the security, justice, and order of society and to protect individual liberties and freedom with limited government.

Conservative

Facebook page @Jackie Edgerton; Press Release(s) in the Island Eye News and Moultrie News.

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I have a twenty-year legal career in service as an Assistant United States Attorney, an attorney for the United States Army, and as a state level criminal prosecutor, and I am committed to leadership and public service for our Representative. I also am the wife of a medical doctor and small businessman and mother of two daughters in our schools. I’m running to represent District 112 because we need action and advocacy in the State House. I will jump in and address important issues to continue to make South Carolina the best state in the nation, to include reforming our public education system to ensure all children receive a quality education of their parents’ choice; lowering our state taxes to include cutting our corporate tax rate across the board to support our local small businesses while also attracting corporations and manufacturers to South Carolina; strengthening the alliance between our technical schools and businesses to create a ready workforce for the number of businesses already here or looking to come with well-paying jobs for our young adults; and ensuring thoughtful and measured infrastructure change to support the growth of the lowcountry. I will fight to protect people’s freedoms, families and businesses, and the future of South Carolina and am committed to three main responsibilities of the office: First, we send a Representative to the State House not to simply vote yay or nay to proposed laws; rather our Representative must be willing and able to research, draft, and advocate with commitment for conservative legislation that makes our lives better. Second, when there is disagreement or discord between the State and the local towns in the district, the Representative should facilitate negotiation between the parties to assist in creating a workable solution that benefits all. I’ve spent 20 years successfully negotiating resolutions in contentious legal cases and will use my skills to do the same to strengthen the relationships between our District and the State, rather than create more conflict. Third, our Representative should stand ready to serve our District inside and outside the State House. This means assisting in local matters to ensure the District’s citizens’ rights are upheld, including advocating for citizens directly before local entities such as school boards that enact rules that run amok of state law.

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Our federal laws that require all gun purchases from a federal firearms licensee to contact and use the National Criminal Background Check System to ensure the purchaser is not barred from firearm purchase for one of the federal prohibitions serves to protect the public. In addition, I support state level stricter criminalization of illegal gun possession, as the vast majority of gun violence occurs at the hands of those illegally possessing a firearm.

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