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The Public Record on Tom Hartnett

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Key Votes

Confederate Protector

Made it illegal for local communities to add context to confederate monuments. He stripped this right from us in order to protect confederate statues from historical context (S508).

Paying 
Himself

He voted to give himself a pay raise of 100% in the state house, after the original pay hike he gave himself was found unconstitutional by the SC Supreme Court (H4025) (SC Gazette).

Dark Money Influence

Made it illegal for local communities to add context to confederate monuments. He stripped this right from us in order to protect confederate statues from historical context (S508).

Extreme Abortion Bans

Voted against exceptions for rape and incest for abortion medications in 2026 (H4760)

Raising Taxes

Tom Hartnett proposed a bill that would raise taxes on ⅔ of SC over $500 a year to fund tax cuts for those making multiple millions a year. Filers making over a million a year averaged a $30,763 cut, while everyday South Carolinians pay more (H4216) (Department of Revenue Economic Analysis).

Growing Affordability Concerns

Tom Hartnett co-authored a plan to raise taxes on most of South Carolina to pay for a tax cut for millionaires. Here is what it costs you.

He wanted six in ten South Carolinians to pay upwards of $1,000 more a year so millionaires could save on taxes
The Insurance Surcharge
Corporate Welfare
While your taxes went up, he voted to raise his own pay 100%
More Traffic, More Flooding Under Tom

South Carolina owns more road than almost any state and funds it worse than every state. Hartnett has been in the State House for four years of it and has not moved legislation forward to fix infrastructure funding issues.

We own the fourth largest state road system in America and fund it worst
in the nation.
The state's own transportation secretary says he is a billion dollars a year short.
The road you are stuck on belongs to Columbia, not Charleston
The Pothole Tax
We have a Healthcare Crisis.

South Carolina has the second-worst medical debt problem in America, one of the highest uninsured rates, and the steepest premium increases in the country. Hartnett has voted against access to healthcare for rape survivors and rural communities.

He voted to restrict care for rape survivors and to block telemedicine for rural families.
South Carolina has the second-worst medical debt rate in the country.
Roughly one in ten South Carolinians has no health insurance at all.
Cost is incredibly difficult to find until after you’ve received it.
South Carolina premiums are rising faster than almost anywhere.
Families in South Carolina have reported paying roughly $40,000
in a single year to have a child.
Sold Out to Corporations

Tom Hartnett has taken PAC money from industries that the SC State Government regulates, like energy companies. One in every eight dollars funding Tom Hartnett comes from the development industry

Crony Capitalism
Development money wrote him checks while Highway 17 and 41 backed up.
Dark Money Influence
Stealing Your Voice

Gerrymandering reached the House floor because of Tom Hartnett Jr. He opened the door at 7:18 in the evening and objected at 12:21 in the morning.

Hartnett voted to meet over summer for redistricting.
No Moral Qualm
Protecting Confederate Statues

Tom Hartnett voted to protect confederate monuments from local influence. He voted to give Greenville and Horry County more say over Charleston's public spaces than Charleston has.

He voted to expand the Heritage Act and let outside groups sue your town.
Updating monuments for historical accuracy is now very difficult.
Dismantling Separation of Church and State

Columbia voted to mandate what goes on the wall of your child's classroom, and to pick up the legal bill for defending it.

The House voted to require the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in the state, including college classrooms.
We are copying a Louisiana law that is still in court.
Voucher Program

Tom Hartnett voted to move your school's money to private schools that do not face public accountability or financial transparency of funds.

He voted for the Education Scholarship Trust Fund.
Private schools taking your money do not face the accountability your
school does.
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