Living here costs more every year.
Samuel is the Democratic candidate for State House District 99.
Traffic
The fix for I-526 has no money and no start date.
- 3
- times voters here have taxed themselves to pay for roads: $143 million in 2008, $273 million in 2014, $587 million in 2022.
- 54%
- more traffic on Clements Ferry Road from I-526 to Jack Primus Road since 2015.
My plan is another way to get there, by ferry, bus or rail.
Find your road on the mapSources
- SCDOT, Request for Proposals S-305-25, Addendum 2, January 2025.
- Berkeley County, One Cent Sales Tax.
- SCDOT traffic counts, station 270.
Power bills
Last year the Senate voted to make data centers pay for the plants and lines they need, the House took it out, and this year’s bill never got a vote.
I’d make data centers pay for the plants and lines they need.
See it on your own billSources
- SC Daily Gazette, May 11, 2026 and May 5, 2025.
AI
The President ordered the Justice Department to take states to court over their AI laws, and the people writing ours would be guessing.
I build software, and I’d write the rules before somebody gets hurt.
About SamuelSources
- The President’s order of December 11, 2025.
Flock cameras
Flock cameras log every car that passes. This summer an Upstate officer was fired for using them 166 times to track an ex.
Corruption
You paid for the roads, the builders did not, and Columbia made sure.
The county used to charge builders a road fee, but it repealed that in 2014 and has not charged one since. Our county is doing its fair share, but the companies building here are not. This spring there was a bill in Columbia to let a county make a subdivision wait for its road. Columbia let it die. They aren’t engineering a solution that will last.
I’ll read every bill before I vote on it, and I’ll say where the money went.
See who paid for your roadSources
- Live 5 News, May 13, 2015. The Post and Courier, May 18, 2025. S.C. General Assembly, S. 227 and H. 4050.
