David M. Rubin
Next Republican Target: The Pill
If advocates for women's reproductive rights learned anything from the fifty-year battle over abortion, it's how aggressive Republican...
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Emily Havener
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Gavin Newsom makes guns an issue that Democrats, even in South Carolina, can run on and win.
Emily A. Havener I am the mother of two school-age children, and I am well aware that gun violence is the leading cause of death for...
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David M. Rubin
- Jul 8
- 3 min
Moms4Liberty, or Moms4Tyranny?
In 2010 the Democratic Party was shockingly late to recognize the force the Tea Party would become in moving Republican politics to the...
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David M. Rubin
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Michael B. Moore speaks to DCDP Members about his run for Congress
Michael Boulware Moore, a prominent Charleston businessman who helped to shepherd the International African American Museum to...
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David M. Rubin
- Jun 3
- 1 min
Tim Scott Votes for Default
At least when Senator Lindsey Graham voted "no" on the bill to raise the debt ceiling, he offered a specific justification. He wanted...
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David M. Rubin
- May 31
- 1 min
Yep, Mace Actually Did It!
She did it. Mace was one of 71 Republicans who voted NO on the debt ceiling bill on the evening of May 31. (It passed easily without...
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David M. Rubin
- May 24
- 2 min
So many Republican outrages
Clean Water Act: What are Nancy Mace, Tim Scott, and Lindsey Graham going to do to protect the wetlands in South Carolina now that...
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David M. Rubin
- May 24
- 2 min
DEMYTHOLOGIZING TIM SCOTT
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has had his moment in the Presidential sun. He finally declared his candidacy for the 2024 Republican...
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David M. Rubin
- May 17
- 3 min
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOE CUNNINGHAM?
First, the one-time golden boy of Low Country Democratic politics lost his seat in Congress to Nancy Mace in the 2020 Covid election. ...
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David M. Rubin
- May 12
- 2 min
MAC DEFORD TALKS TO DCDP MEMBERS ABOUT HIS RUN FOR CONGRESS
One of the two declared candidates intending to wrest away the First Congressional District House seat from Nancy Mace spoke to a large...
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David M. Rubin
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
"ASSEMBLYMAN CHRIS MURPHY IS ABOUT TO BE TESTED (FINALLY)
The virtually uncontested political career of Republican Assemblyman Chris Murphy may, after eight brutal years, be nearing an end. He...
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David M. Rubin
- Sep 25, 2022
- 3 min
Nancy Says "No" Again -
How Nancy Mace has been an obstructionist to every effort to upgrade Democracy. Send her home. Dr. Annie Andrews is her replacement
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David M. Rubin
- Sep 6, 2022
- 4 min
The State Assembly Launches Its Assault on Women
In its first response to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, white male Republicans in the South Carolina Assembly...
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David M. Rubin
- Jul 30, 2022
- 4 min
CAN WEAVER MEET THE MASTER'S DEGREE REQUIREMENT?
DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu South Carolina law requires that whoever is elected to be Superintendent of Education must possess "a...
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David M. Rubin
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
ELLEN WEAVER, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
In the classic 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, Chinese Communists brainwash a captured American serviceman and send him back to the...
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David M. Rubin
- Jul 5, 2022
- 4 min
REPUBLICANS WILL REAP THIS WHIRLWIND
JULY 5, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu The world must seem so simple to Governor Henry McMaster. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court...
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David M. Rubin
- Jun 29, 2022
- 4 min
IS THE SLEEPING GIANT OF AMERICAN POLITICS ABOUT TO AWAKEN?
If you need evidence of how discombobulated REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE is by the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling on abortion, try to parse...
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David M. Rubin
- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
NANCY MACE'S UVALDE PROBLEM
Now that Rep. Nancy Mace has weathered the wrath of Donald Trump and defeated his preferred candidate in the Republican primary for the...
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David M. Rubin
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
IT TAKES THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO CREATE UVALDE
At 8:15 pm on May 24, about three hours after Salvador Ramos killed 21 people, including 19 children, inside a school building in Uvalde,...
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David M. Rubin
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
GIL GATCH, PASTOR TURNED POL
MAY 13, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu The 94th Assembly District in the Summerville area was the launching pad for one of South...
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