Don’t let them bully you out of voting for what you want.
Talk radio is an effective medium for sharing ideas and promoting change. It’s also a daily grind to stay relevant, interesting, and keep your audience.
Maybe that’s why so many radio show hosts say stupid crap.
Some of the latest bullying phrases being repeated on talk radio as if they were gospel:
- Kasie cannot possibly win.
- Kasie is polling at less than 2%.
- A vote for Kasie is a vote for Annie Andrews.
- A vote for Kasie is a vote for Darline Graham.
- This election is too important to vote third party.
- You can vote your conscience next time, this time you need to pick the winner.
It’s that last one that really gets me because they probably used it last time to talk you out of a third party candidate.
A voter wrote me yesterday that she loves what I have to say. She realized, after following me, that she’s a Libertarian, too. But she just doesn’t think I can win. So she voted straight party for someone else.
Ya’ll.
This isn’t about me. It’s about trusting each other. Trust your fellow South Carolinians to make the right choice. Trust them when they say they’re independent, they’re not party voters, they’re tired of the same old crap.
Trust them to vote better.
Call these radio hosts. Tell them they’re part of the problem. Tell them that the math is so easy, even they can do it:
- This is plurality voting so the most votes wins.
- This is a three way race, so the most votes is not 50%, it can be as low as 34%.
- This is a statewide race, so there is no gerrymandering. No special districting. Districts don’t matter. It’s the entire state.
The math is scary to the major parties. That’s why some ads are running telling you this election is too important to vote third party. That’s why they’re bullying you out of your vote with polls that don’t include me in the question but do include me in the results. Polls are propaganda. Don’t believe them.
Trust your fellow South Carolinians are tired of the crap. Trust that they’re going to vote for what they want, not for what the parties are telling them is strategic. Party strategy is the party’s problem. Don’t let them make their problem yours.
You don’t owe them your vote.
They don’t OWN your vote. YOU do.
Vote for what YOU want.
In the end, most votes wins. And I’m out here every day working hard to earn your vote.
These radio talkers and the podcasters, the social media posters, the party-line towers, the scared folks who worry about not picking the winner, they don’t matter to YOU. Let them worry about how it feels to be complicit in bad government.
You’re choosing better.
Call the radio talkers and tell them so their other listeners can hear you. So their other listeners will trust that South Carolinians all over the state are Voting Better this cycle. Not next time, this time.
At least one million of us know that our government doesn’t work for us.
Yesterday, one state senator posted on Facebook that I’d earned his vote. Another one told me to my face that I was the best candidate for the job.
Bullies don’t want us to vote for the best candidate. They want us to vote for their candidate. And they’ll say whatever it takes to win.
Vote better.
Know what you want and what you believe and vote for the candidate you trust to govern on your behalf.
And if that candidate is me, call the radio talkers and tell them. Tell them they’re part of the problem. Tell them to stop bullying their listeners.
Tell them you’ve had enough and you trust your fellow South Carolinians have, too.
Here are their names and numbers. The first ones I’ve actually been on their programs and they know what they’re saying is trash and they’re saying it anyway. Call them out.
- Ken Ard – 843-661-0937 (Live 95.3, 6-10 am)
- Charlie James – 800-905-0989 (106.3 The Word, 3-7 pm)
- Banana Jack and James – 843-808-5225 (94.5 Talk, 4-6 pm)
- Bill Frady – 800-905-0989 (98.9 The Word, 12-3 pm)
- Kelly Nash – 803-978-9862 (94.3, 6-10 am)
- Keven Cohen – 803-799-TALK (100.7 The Point, 4-6 pm)
I love Keven Cohen and he’s conceded that there’s a chance I could win this thing; I think his listeners keep calling to tell him they voted for me and he’s encouraged. But call him anyway. He loves talking to new callers.
These folks I haven’t been on their show, but they’re selling the same party crap. Call them on it:
- Tara Servatius – 800-905-0989 (98.9 The Word, 6-10 am)
- The Liz Callaway Show (with Nick Summers) – 843-903-2945 (Talk 94.5 6-10 am)
In the lowcountry, they’ve got Dan Bongino, a pre-recorded morning politics show, except for
- Bill West and Sheree Bernardi – 843-556-1250 (WTMA, 7-8 am)
They’re a morning show, not so much politics, kind of like me and Kev in the Midlands. Listen to get a feel for it before calling in.
Some of you are thinking, “Who listens to talk radio anymore?” And the answer is, a lot of political junkies do.
There are also some live streams happening in this block that you might be aware of. Same action applies: if they’re bullying people out of their votes, if they’re trying to protect the Republican majority despite difficult-to-support candidates, or if they’re claiming the Democrats are the only way to beat the Republicans, they’re working an agenda. They have their own incentives.
Stay true to yourself and vote your conscience. It’s your right, granted not by government, or radio talkers, but by God, to vote for the person you think is best for the job.
We’re not betting on horses here. Picking the winner doesn’t serve you if she’s terrible.
Leave a comment if you know of a media person who needs to hear from us. Have fun out there.
Let’s vote better, SC.