Jermaine Johnson

Where Johnson stands

Grouped by topic by Vote Book; headings and quoted words are the candidate’s own, with the source under each one. “As reported” items are a news outlet’s description, not an exact quote.

Health care

Why do you seek the office of Governor of South Carolina?

I’m running to bring new leadership to South Carolina and build a state that we can be proud of. I’m going to fix the roads, provide better access to health care, especially mental healthcare, and make life here more affordable.

What do you feel is the most important challenge facing our state and how do you propose to address it?

The biggest challenges facing South Carolina are: our poor infrastructure, lack of access to health and mental health care, and rising cost of living. To address our poor infrastructure, I will make sure our public works are properly funded and to shift responsibility (and funding) to counties and municipalities that can act faster than the state. For healthcare, I plan on expanding Medicaid and funding rural hospitals, guaranteeing there is an OBGYN in every county, and making sure mental health is treated with the same urgency as physical health. To address affordability, I plan on building affordable housing, reducing the burden of income tax, mandating a livable, minimum wage, and helping unions to secure better conditions for workers.

Quality healthcare must be ensured at an affordable cost for all citizens in our state.

Support

Energy & environment

How would you balance the demand for the growth of data centers in SC to meet the needs of AI while also balancing how these data centers are regulated to protect the environment and the cost to ratepayers?

I filed a moratorium on all data center construction in SC until the centers can propose a plan to the counties and state of how they will provide their own energy, protect our resources, and use our labor force in construction. If they cannot do those things, I am fully against their coming to our state.

Jobs, wages & cost of living

Affordability

Slash the income tax It is time to reduce the tax burden on our working class. Some Republicans want to see all income tax disappear. Do not be fooled. In South Carolina, 40% of the lowest earning families do not pay income tax at all (technically they pay it and receive it back in April). Getting rid of income tax …

Infrastructure & transportation

Infrastructure

Rebuild our roads and bridges It is time to invest in South Carolina’s infrastructure. Our roads and bridges are in disrepair and we cannot afford to sit around as things get worse. Jermaine wrote a bill that will allow municipalities the ability to fix their own roads and bridges with money from the state’s …

Families & communities

Families

Fix our education system It is time to invest in South Carolina’s public education. As governor, Jermaine will conduct a full audit of South Carolina’s public education system to determine how best to increase access and quality of our state’s public education. But Jermaine doesn’t plan on waiting around and sitting …