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AFP Launches Accountability Ad Campaign Targeting Ex-Im, Corporate Welfare Votes CHARLESTON, SC – Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina today announced it is holding Rep. Joe Cunningham accountable for reauthorizing the controversial Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank. The accountability campaign is part of a six-figure direct mail, digital, and newspaper advertising effort. AFP has consistently opposed the reauthorization of […]

Judge Steven H. John’s ruling that South Carolina’s civil asset forfeiture law violates the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution was a victory for due process, private property rights and the protections afforded to every South Carolina citizen. But as encouraging as the ruling was, it only applies to two counties in the […]

Grassroots group encourages lawmakers to protect property rights, due process CHARLESTON, SC – Following a House Asset Forfeiture Policy Study Committee that examined a bill that would mostly diminish the practice of civil asset forfeiture and rightfully replace this unjust practice with criminal forfeiture, Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina State Director Andrew Yates issued the following […]

Grassroots group says more progress can be made on bipartisan issue COLUMBIA, SC – Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) today commended President Trump on supporting criminal justice reform and encouraged the president, the Democratic presidential candidates, and state and federal lawmakers to build on the First Step Act. President Trump is speaking about criminal justice […]

Grassroots organization commends ruling, encourages state appellate courts to reaffirm ruling that finds civil asset forfeiture law unconstitutional CHARLESTON, SC – Following 15th Circuit Court Judge Steven H. John’s ruling that South Carolina’s civil asset forfeiture law violates the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina Andrew Yates issued the […]

Grassroots Group Declares Victory as FIRST STEP ACT Heads to President Trump’s Desk Columbia, SC – Today, Americans for Prosperity- South Carolina (AFP-SC) celebrated the passage of the FIRST STEP Act, a package of critical criminal justice reforms. AFP-SC also praised Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott for their support for commonsense criminal justice reforms. The FIRST […]