Author Archives: Gresham Barrett
Campaign Update
Gresham wanted to give you a quick update on all the events that the campaign activity for this week. Please take a moment to watch the short video.
Campaign Update from Gresham Barrett on Vimeo.
Gresham On President Obama’s Budget
Gresham on President Obama’s Budget from Gresham Barrett on Vimeo.
WYFF-TV: Jobs No. 1 Issue In South Carolina Gov. Race
Nigel Robertson
Anchor/Reporter
GREENVILLE, S.C. — In the race for South Carolina Governor it is issue number one, jobs. In the race for governor of South Carolina, the No. 1 issue is jobs; not just saving them but finding more.
On Monday, Republican Gresham Barrett released his, “Putting South Carolina back to work plan of action.”
Barrett said, “We [...]
Post and Courier: Barrett announces jobs plan on tour
South Carolina gubernatorial hopeful and U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett toured the state Monday to announce his jobs plan.
His proposal includes dozens of specific steps toward the goals of filling jobs immediately, overhauling the S.C. Department of Commerce, providing comprehensive tax and incentive reform, promoting tourism, making the state a leader in energy independence, improving infrastructure [...]
The State: Barrett unveils plan to boost employment
U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, the Westminster Republican running for governor, released his plan Monday to get South Carolina back to work.
The plan includes overhauling the state Department of Commerce and tax code, prioritizing improvements to state roads, bridges and ports, and using lottery money to retrain workers for the up to 40,000 jobs currently available.
Barrett [...]
Ready to Run: For the week of January 24th
Anna Ready, Congressman Barrett’s scheduler, gives an update on the week ahead. This is another busy week for Congressman Barrett and the staff. Please take a moment and let Anna fill you in on all of the week’s events. If you have any questions feel free to email anna@greshambarrett.com
What are Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama afraid of?
Just before Christmas, we got the bad news that the Senate passed its own version of the Democratic health care bill. Truth be told, it’s even worse than the House version that passed earlier this fall.
Now, members of both the House and the Senate are supposed to come together and work out the differences between [...]
Senate Poised to Pass Taxpayer Funding for Abortions
Dear Friend,
As the Senate considers a health care bill that contains taxpayer funding for abortion, I could not help but think that the gift of life has special meaning this time of year.
2,000 years ago a young mother gave birth to the child that would be the savior for all humanity. Today as we prepare [...]
Thoughts on Copenhagen
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics was preparing to announce that South Carolina’s unemployment rate had reached an all time high of 12.3%, President Obama was boarding a plane headed for Copenhagen to broker a deal on “climate change.”
While more than a quarter of a million unemployed South Carolinians were wondering how they [...]
