Fri June 27 2025 - Hour 2, Segment 1 : The Charlie James Show - (4pm Hour)

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of rain, for purple mountain majesties, from sea to shining sea. America is back. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Welcome back to the program. We appreciate it. Well, we got a governor's race coming up, and one of the men that is officially announced that he is running for governor is attorney general Alan Wilson, and he joins us right now. Attorney general Wilson, how are you, sir? Man, I'm doing great trying to survive the heat Yes. Probably like all of your listeners are right now. So if you become governor of South Carolina, are you gonna do something about the heat? Is that gonna be a campaign promise? I was gonna try to move the sun back just a couple of million miles just to give it a few degrees, and I'm gonna work on that. Alright. So you announced this on on Monday, and, what was your thought process? Why did you want to run for governor of South Carolina? Well, first off, Charlie, let me start by saying I love South Carolina. I have loved serving as her attorney general for the last fourteen and a half years. This is something that I have been thinking about for many months. I've spoken with my family, prayed about it, came to the ultimate conclusion that I'm uniquely situated and qualified to be the next governor of South Carolina. As a twenty nine year combat veteran with experience in combat, as an attorney general who's commanded an office of 350 people, who has been on the national stage on high profile cases, very, very high profile cases, and has made very impactful decisions that affect this state as well as the lives of soldiers I've led. I feel like that I would make a great governor. You want a governor that is going to have a calm, steady hand on the wheel of the state, but at the same time, you want someone who's capable of bringing about true form and, reform and change without injecting chaos into our system, and I think I can do that. So you picked up some pretty big endorsements today. Right? Yes, sir. Yesterday morning in Charleston, I began with the Berkeley, Dorchester, and Charleston County sheriff. So on Monday, I received the endorsement of the Lexington County sheriff. Mhmm. And, today, I received the sheriff excuse me, the endorsement of the Greenville County sheriff, Hobart Lewis, who is a very dear friend and an amazing law enforcement leader, and I was honored to have his endorsement and support today. So let's let's take a look at at your governorship. What would you want to be known for? When it's all said and done, people say, Alan Wilson, he was the governor that that did this. What are your plans for the state of South Carolina? Well, my my priorities are gonna be basically this. We're gonna eliminate the state income tax. Three states in the Southeast have already done it. Another five states are working to do it. South Carolina cannot fall behind. And so eliminate the income tax would basically go a long way to my priority, basically promoting economic growth. Number two, I wanna doge South Carolina from the top to the bottom and back up again, meaning from school districts to local government, to county government, to state government. We need to be using state of the art AI platforms as well as a beefed up inspector general's office to inspect how money is being spent at all levels and whether bureaucrats and people embedded in government are spending money and applying the rules properly and not arbitrarily. And if they are, violating, if they are committing fraud, waste, and abuse, they need to be exposed and removed. And if they're doing it criminally, they need to be prosecuted. I also wanna reform education. I wanna expand access, to more children at an earlier age getting access to classes and courses that promote reading comprehension and math co ...