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Stop Liberal Spending

Spartanburg Count Conservatives –

As you headed to work this morning, you most likely saw a bunch of new signs from my campaign stating “Stop Liberal Spending.” As pointed out in the Spartanburg Herald Journal last week, I’ve been fighting to implement new spending caps in Columbia. I believe if we limit spending to a formula equal to population + inflation increases, we can stop the liberal spending that’s putting our nation and our state in jeopardy.

Not only am I pushing spending caps, but I’m also pushing more roll call voting to put politicians on the record so that they can’t vote for huge spending projects in secret. I was also one of the lead writers of the new criminal sentencing law that will keep violent criminals in prison longer while valuable tax dollars.

Here a few lines about my fight to STOP LIBERAL SPENDING from the Spartanburg Herald Journal:

“Kelly is a reliably conservative voice in the General Assembly and is on the correct side of many political battles, spending caps in particular.

The state budget is being decimated by the poor economy and caps limiting spending increases in order to prevent the same thing happening in the future are being debated. The big issue is at what level of state revenue those caps should kick in.

Kelly has the right perspective, arguing to create caps in spending increases that kick in right now, with the budget at just over $5 billion, rather than when state revenues return to $6 billion or $7 billion.

Any money the General Assembly gets its hands on, it blows. Capping spending increases at some rosy future date, but not today, is a cop-out that gives the appearance of solving the problem while pushing the difficult decisions off to the future.

Kelly also shows a refreshing lack of dogmatism on issues such as education and taxation. He says his experience with a committee of experts working on sentencing reform as the subcommittee chair on criminal law taught him how much groups of knowledgeable people bringing evidence-based practices to the table can achieve, and he’d like to see such groups convened to come up with plans for education and government restructuring.”

I hope I can count on your vote this Tuesday. If you have any questions about my record, please call me at 542.4867.

Have a great day.

Sincerely,

Keith Kelly

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