I'm an eight generation S Carolinian.
I'm a Christian constitutional conservative.
The main reason I am running for cop for the
Third Congressional District is because my goddaughter,
Maddie Hines died senselessly and needlessly due to the actions
of an illegal alien.
October the 8th was supposed to be
a wonderful day. It started off.
It was our son's 18th birthday and our middle daughter,
Kinsley, it was her. She was getting baptized that day,
so all of our family friends gathered together.
We celebrated those events and then went out to eat.
Had fun later that afternoon.
We were driving to Sue's house.
We were going to drop something off for him and
Kelly,
and then we're going to go visit my grandparents.
Just like a short trip that we were supposed to
take for a few minutes.
And as we were driving,
we got back to that intersection and almost to that
intersection.
Maddie hit the back of my chair
and I turned around and she said,
I love you. And when I turned back around my
mom's face,
I was like,
you know, just kind of like,
what's wrong? Like in a split second.
But it felt like an entire,
you know, generation just like
kind of time stood still.
But as I went to turn to look at what
she was looking at,
the car hit us or the truck hit us
and Maddie was taken instantly.
So
it's been really hard,
but peace, like very peaceful.
I feel like God has been with us through it
all.
So I obviously I called my husband and I called
my dad, and the next person I called was Sue
and Kelly.
And they were actually the first ones to show up
other than,
like the people that were driving by,
they were the first ones to show up after that.
And I wouldn't have had it any other way.
I trust Sue. I trust Kelly.
They are our best friends and to go through something
like that and to have someone like them by our
side
has been amazing. Sue has
went above and beyond and I feel like
that's his type of personality.
Sue, when he sets his mind and his heart on
something and he he sees that it needs to change
or he sees that something needs to get done.
He gets the job done.
And so to think that he is running for Congress.
I'm like of course you're running for Congress and of
course you're going to be amazing at it.
I have no doubt in my mind.
I feel like our the main priority the border,
So many things come through the border.
It's not just illegals coming here and they are
getting into wrecks and or murdering
an innocent college student. It's not these events it's they're
also bringing drugs across the border.
It's there's more than just these events
and and I feel honored and blessed that
our story has gotten out there.
But how many other people have their stories not been
told.
How many other people have you know have to sit
back and deal with
an illegal getting deported immediately after the event happening.
They don't get justice. They haven't they haven't gotten
any closure.
But then a few months later that person can enter
right back in the country.
I feel like our a lot of people have seen
and it makes me really mad.
But I've seen interviews where people are laughing
and they are saying that the border is not an
issue.
Well, it's not an issue because it doesn't apply to
you and you have not become that statistic yet.
And until your family goes through what we have went
through,
the loss of a child,
it's something we deal with every single day.
People don't see the hurt,
they don't see what we go through.
But I feel like our faith and I feel like
God is the only way that we have been able
to get through.
Like I really do not.
I can't. I can't tell you how many times that
someone had come up and said
I don't see how you're doing it.
I don't see how I do it either,
but I just know that
I let him use me every day.
I mean, we're seeing so many different pieces to this.
And like Chelsea was talking about the fentanyl that's coming
over the border,
one thing, and I want to,
I want to tell you this,
I've been to the border.
And one thing that I noticed right off the bat
in Brownsville, TX, is that as these people are coming
in,
the signage there in Brownsville,
in the middle of the city where they're congregating,
is in Ukrainian, It's in Chinese.
It's in Spanish
and so it it's and then they're going into a
non governmental building that's a it's some sort of non
profit that's probably getting funds from the government.
They're giving them a cell phone and a debit card
and those people are coming out and lining up at
an ATM and I and I witnessed it.
I got video of it first hand.
And so I got to see
probably what happened in the occurrence of the guy that
came over here
and you know, he was deported under the Trump administration
and came back under the Biden administration.
The first thing Congress has to do,
they've got to use the power of the purse to
turn off the magnets,
turn off the incentives, the programs.
We've got to go after any kind of non profit,
any kind of program that's supporting and encouraging this illegal
activity.
Second, you know and probably most importantly I should say,
we've got to complete the wall.
I was able to go down the Rio Grande and
see pieces,
parts of the wall where farmers and local people in
Brownsville,
I mean they find dead bodies
in the Rio Grande. They find dead bodies in fields
from trafficking,
smuggling of children and drugs and so forth.
It's a horrific situation. The third piece to this puzzle,
we've got to work with local law enforcement in order
to identify and deport those who are here illegally.
And like Chelsea said, one part of this that's so
troubling
is what the Biden administration is doing right now.
They are. They've given orders to Homeland Security and ICE
to deport the ones once they've committed a crime and
it makes it makes no sense.
So you know what they're doing is once they've hurt
somebody and or killed an innocent American,
then they're giving them the option they're they're processing them
in Atlanta in our area and then that person usually
ends up back in
Mexico or just right back here,
never standing trial. And so I want to make sure
that those who have committed crimes stand trial and the
ones that haven't,
that are here illegally, we need to get them out
of here.