Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson places a premium on getting out in the Second District and meeting with “Working Joes.” Monday, March 8 meant another day of Joe rolling up his sleeves, and helping with the real jobs of people who make this country work every day.

The new SC State Farmers market is slated to open later this summer and will be three times larger than the current facility in Columbia. Industries like construction, retail, farming, and trucking.

Joe has a personal connection to the market, telling workers about how one of his sons drove a truck for one of the produce companies that is putting up a building there.

The unique private/public partnership is expected to employ around 1,400 people during the seasonal time of business.

Here are the Video Clips of Joe’s appearance, courtesy of WLTX-TV and WACH-TV.

WLTX-TV @ 6pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Bn3tvSWq8

WACH-TV News @ 7:30 report by Jerrita Patterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n72de-tI4J0

WACH-TV News @ 10pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICw9VfZt10

In addition to the West Columbia Joe Means Jobs event, Joe spent the evening in Aiken, SC with constituents in a town hall meeting.  Continuing his theme of accessibility and accountability, the event was open to the public and all media.

Joe took any and all questions from the crowd, touching on issues ranging from the fight against government run health care to Joe vowing to fight the closure of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

Wilson told the crowd we can win on the issues.  Joe said with big government comes limitations on freedom and he warned that the liberal Democrats are trying to significantly grow government.

Joe Means Jobs is an ongoing effort by Joe Wilson to get out and work alongside “working Joes.”  He is focused on jobs and believes that lower taxes and greater tax credits for businesses are the real way to stimulate the economy.

ABC affiliate WJBF-TV’s Joy Howe covered the event and summarized it this way:

“JOE MEANS JOBS”: That’s what candidate Joe Wilson told voters in Aiken.

The US Congressman chatted with about 100 voters from the Cedar Creek precinct.

His main mission, he says, is to bring jobs back to the American people and to South Carolinians.

His district includes Allendale County, which has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.

He’s also weighing in on what he thinks about President Obama’s healthcare plan…he says it’s not a “one size fits all” idea.

U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson:  “I find people want health insurance reform, but they do not want a government take-over. And the more they found out about the government’s plan, the squeezing of Medicare, half a trillion dollars, the attack on senior citizens, the more people found out that what the President’s proposing will eliminate jobs.”