H2 - Segment 1 - Mon Aug 18 2025 - SC Solicitor David Pascoe about his run for SC Atty General

H2 - Segment 1 - Mon Aug 18 2025 - SC Solicitor David Pascoe about his run for SC Atty General Months ago, and everybody was speculating what his plans were, and we found out this morning. Joining us right now is solicitor David Pascoe. Mister Pascoe, thanks for joining us this this afternoon. How are you? Yes, sir. Doing great, Charlie. I appreciate you having me on. No more speculation today. No. No. As it you you gotta admit, this is like the worst kept secret in the history of South Carolina politics. Right? Absolutely. That's why I didn't play any games. That was when I came up to Greenville a few months ago, I laid it out. I knew then that I was gonna run for attorney general. So what what was it that made you decide to do that? We know that, Alan Wilson will be stepping down here shortly, to run for governor. What what made you throw your hat into the ring here? The corrupt the numb look. I've got four major goals. I laid them out today. I'm gonna lay them out again tomorrow night in Greenville. But the overwhelming reason why I ran or why I'm running is because I'm tired of the corruption in Columbia. And as I've said many times, you cannot ticket corruption, you have to crush corruption. The greatest days of my thirty two years of being a prosecutor was when I was the special prosecutor that took down the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tem of the Senate, the two majority leaders, and we sent the judiciary chairman of the House to prison. And they were the most rewarding years I had, but they were without a doubt the most challenging years I ever had. And I wanted to go further because corruption in Colombia goes much, much deeper than those convictions. But when I tried to go further, the Supreme Court told me I had to stop because they said, Pascua, you're not the attorney general, so you can't go any further. Well, today, I decided to do something about it, and I'm running for attorney general to get back to Columbia and crush the culture of corruption that we have up there in the general assembly. You know, when, we were at dinner a couple of months ago, I asked you the question, was corruption worse then, or is it worse now? And your answer was? Now. Nobody's watching. At least during the corruption probe, there was some fear and people started doing the right thing, but nobody's watching. I got a phone call I get phone calls every day, certainly every week, but I got one just last Thursday from someone saying, Pasco, the illegal lobbying that is going on up here is incredible. What can we do about it? And I said, I feel your pain. Give me about a year, year and a half, and I'm gonna get up there and we're gonna stop it. So when when and you're gonna make this announcement in Greenville, tomorrow night. What time is that is that, talk gonna be? It's tomorrow night, 06:30, Wade Hampton High School. And this is and I know people are going to say Pasco is overstating it or I'm blowing this up. I promise you all this, please come because it is going to be the most important presentation of any candidate for any office this year because not only am I going to lay out what some of the culture of corruption is in Columbia, but I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm going to do on day one. And I promise you, it's things that will be done on day one and it's things that no other candidate for office has ever thought about even doing. And I'm gonna do those things. Are people going to be shocked? I think they're gonna be shocked at what I say tomorrow that I'm gonna do, but the people are not shocked about the selfish government and the corruption that takes place at the state house. Are we gonna be shocked about the the players? I don't think they will. Really? I don't think they will. And I'm not gonna point out any players right now. I'm not gonna play the game of the Leticia Jameses of the world, up in New York. Prosecutors shouldn't do that, and they should only lay out what the what the fact ...