This time last year, the rain fell. And fell. And fell.   The floodgates burst, and South Carolina found itself facing an historic 1,000-Year Flood catastrophe—and the consequences of a decade-plus of Infrastructure neglect under Congressman Joe Wilson.   The world watched, as many parts of South Carolina’s Second Congressional District became flood-ravaged lakes […]

  A speech presented at the 2016 Famously Hot South Carolina Pride festival during Arik Bjorn’s 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress.   Our nation’s great poet once proclaimed: “I sing the body electric!”   I am confident that my fellow-bearded Walt Whitman would join me today in exclaiming, “We sing the body rainbow!”   The […]