McMaster MUST Veto "Environmental Justice" Initiative In 2024 SC Budget!
The "Justice40 Initiative," MUST be vetoed by Tuesday at Midnight, but SCDemocrats are adamant about implementing it here.
The Justice40 project is a social and environmental justice based DEI initiative that was first made official by executive order number 14008 “Tackling The Climate Crisis at Home & Abroad” signed by Joe Biden in his first week in office, January 27th 2021.
The goal of the “Justice40” project is to implement the worst tenants of the Green New Deal and the most Neo-Marxist aspects of “social justice” as well as the baby brother of social justice, “environmental justice.” They plan to accomplish this by forcing each state to spend upwards of 40% of all federal funding in “underserved” and “diverse” neighborhoods and areas. I don’t want you to take my word for it. I just ask that you believe Joe Biden and his administration when they tell you the goal.
According to Joe Biden’s executive order, and every organization that has been created in the name of implementing the “Justice40” initiative, the new policy is “to create well-paying union jobs and more opportunities for women and people of color in hard-hit communities.”
After this executive order was implemented by Joe Biden, leftist activists from all over the nation got to work. We could run through WEBSITE after WEBSITE and NON-PROFIT after NON-PROFIT whoch have been funded on the heels of this executive order and which have worked tirelessly to implement its highly racialized tenants in every aspect of state and local governance, not to mention its implementation in federal government.
But for now let’s focus on South Carolina and our state legislature. This is where it gets really shady…and a bit complicated, so stay with me because the powers that be BANK on making situations like this complicated to throw people like you and me off the trail.
But that’s not gonna happen this time, friends. Here we go:
SC Democrats Attempt #1:
In the “General Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2022-2023” (H. 5150 of 2021/22) Democrat state rep Gilda Cobb-Hunter proposed something called the “Justice Forty Oversight Committee” with the intent of helping the Biden administration implement their “environmental justice” and “social justice” goals right here in South Carolina. At that time, the Democrats and rinos made the mistake of not hiding the goals of this committee. They said themselves the purpose was to “…address the issue of environmental justice in South Carolina.”
This committee Rep Cobb-Hunter was adamant in creating would eventually have given their unquestioned recommendations to the House Ways & Means Committee and moved on from there.
It is worth noting that Gilda Cobb-Hunter is the 1st vice chair of the very powerful State House Ways & Means Committee.
This initiative was initially stopped in its tracks by a veto from Governor Henry McMaster.
The language used in the appropriation made it easy to spot. On June 22, 2022 Henry McMaster’s Veto #12 killed Section 117, Page 534, Proviso 117.163, commonly known as “Justice Forty Oversight Committee” and he did so under no uncertain terms.
Henry McMaster’s veto stated “The General Assembly does not need to create a study committee to help enact the social justice policies of President Biden and his administration.” He was right to do so. This quagmire of reckless spending is based on nothing but feelings and virtue signals rather than data and facts.
But, we know that Democrats will NEVER take no for an answer, no matter what types of shady business they have to take part in to keep their absurd ideology-based expenditures afloat. This brings us, briefly, to…
SC Dem Attempt #2:
After McMaster’s veto, you would think the issue would be dead. But, instead of allowing such an insidious, wasteful, racially divisive policy to fade away, Gilda Cobb-Hunter had another idea.
That’s why, on January 10th, 2023, she introduced a Joint Resolution with the intent to go around the governor’s veto. this joint resolution (H3198) was set forth to “create the ‘Justice Forty Oversight Committee’ to study opportunities to address the issue of environmental efforts in ‘certain communities.’” It goes on to discuss the goals of Joe Biden’s “Justice40” initiative, which we discussed above. The resolution goes on to speak of environmental and social justice, taking part in community organizing, and ensuring that grants and loans go to these “certain communities,” ensuring they derive the “full benefit” of Biden’s “Justice40” initiatives.
However, there is an important change in the language that first materializes in this joint resolution. The term “certain communities” appears in this joint resolution for the first time. It is important that you remember what the ACTUAL goal of the “Justice40” executive order actually intends to do.
As McMaster said in his own veto, this project seeks to “help enact the social justice policies of President Biden and his administration.”
That brings us to TODAY.
SC Dem Attempt #3:
This insidious 3rd attempt to place this absurd social-justice initiative into South Carolina’s state law has now revealed itself, although Cobb-Hunter and her fellow Democrats have become increasingly clever leading to this iteration.
H. 5100 General Appropriations Bill for 2024/25 includes a strikingly similar committee with the exact same goals as the previous iterations we spoke of earlier.
This time they call it the “Federal Funds Oversight Committee” and it is quite purposefully vague.
When it states that its goal is to “ensure transparency and accountability for “CERTAIN” one time funds” it really means the federal funds associated with the “Justice40” initiative. This new iteration also seeks to “oversee the expenditure of federal and other funds” and “recommend opportunities” whatever THAT means.
the committee will be made up of virtually the same people from the previously vetoed version from 2022, and chaired by the Director of Environmental Services.
While the 2022 version said “marginalized communities,” the new one vaguely states “certain rural and urban communities,”
While the 2022 version states they will “study opportunities to address the issue of environmental justice in South Carolina,” the new one simply changed it to “creating targeted efforts to address long standing issues in certain rural and urban communities in South Carolina…”
You see where I’m going with this?
The way the left operates, no matter what arena they may find themselves in, is by changing language to make it more palatable or to all-out HIDE their motives.
This is a perfect example of that. And the problem is, without YOUR help, Governor McMaster might let this obvious misdirection slip through the cracks. That is where you come in.
Henry McMaster has until midnight on Tuesday, July 2nd to veto this section of the Appropriations bill H. 5100 Proviso 117.180 or Biden’s social justice nonsense will have gained a foothold in South Carolina state law that we may NEVER be able to undo.
We need YOUR help, call his office NOW (info provided below) and tell him to merely do what he already did in 2022, and veto Joe Biden’s social justice agenda here in South Carolina.
Henry McMaster Phone (803)734-2100
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