Must-See Rant! State Rep. Shows Fellow Politicians How To Stand For Voters, Not Bureaucrats & Corporations

Republican South Carolina State Representative Adam Morgan delivered a fiery speech from the state capitol this week, slamming his peers for bowing to pressure from Washington, D.C. lobbyists and bureaucrats.

Discussing a bill being voted on by the state legislature, Morgan told his colleagues, “I get that the people in Columbia, that the lobby wants me to either not vote or vote green on this, but my constituents want me to vote red and they want their tax money spent on core government functions, on their roads, on their schools, that’s what they want their money spent on.”

Democrat South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford pressed Morgan on his stance by claiming the politicians know more than the people in his district because they have experience in making major deals.

Rutherford told Morgan he shouldn’t listen to the people in his district because they “may not have ever brokered a deal, may not understand what it means being a project, may not understand incentives.”

“So, what you’re suggesting is we should listen to the people back home in your district rather than the people at commerce that have been successful at bringing these mega deals to South Carolina?” the out-of-touch representative asked Morgan.

The GOP rep. scoffed and told Rutherford he couldn’t disagree with him more fundamentally, saying, “I a hundred percent am gonna listen to the people back home who I represent in this house and you should go listen to the 40,000 people in your area and not the bureaucrats at commerce and not the lobbyists and not the multi-billion dollar international corporations. YOU should listen to your constituents like I am.”

He added, “So, yes, I will always fall back on the common sense of the wonderful people from Taylors and Greenville East Side far more than I will ever listen to you unelected bureaucrats, other representatives in here who have been here for far too long and have maybe managed a whole lot of these deals and far more than I will ever listen to any member out there in the lobby.”

Morgan is the Chairman of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus and is currently challenging Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) for his House seat.