David Ellison
David Ellison (Republican Party) ran for election to the South Carolina State Senate to represent District 32. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
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Biography
David Ellison served in the U.S. Air Force from 1993 to 2015 and in the South Carolina Army National Guard from 1988 to 1991.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: South Carolina State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for South Carolina State Senate District 32
Incumbent Ronnie Sabb defeated David Ellison in the general election for South Carolina State Senate District 32 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ronnie Sabb (D) | 60.6 | 27,284 |
 | David Ellison (R)  | 39.3 | 17,714 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 54 | ||
| Total votes: 45,052 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 32
Incumbent Ronnie Sabb defeated Ted Brown, Kelly Spann Jr., and Manley Collins in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 32 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ronnie Sabb | 71.2 | 9,508 |
 | Ted Brown | 15.9 | 2,128 | |
| Kelly Spann Jr. | 11.0 | 1,475 | |
 | Manley Collins | 1.8 | 239 | |
| Total votes: 13,350 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. David Ellison advanced from the Republican primary for South Carolina State Senate District 32.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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David Ellison completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ellison's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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David Ellison is a Christian, husband of one wife, father of four children ages 11, 16, 21 and 23. He's a three time deployed United States Air Force and Army combat veteran, conservative Republican, tree farmer, investor (in that order) living in Georgetown SC running to help the people of State Senate District 32 achieve equal opportunity, economic freedom, religious freedom, freedom of speech, justice, and all their God given rights.
He served on active duty in the United States Air Force from 1993-2015. Additionally, he served in the SC Army National Guard from 1988 to 1991. He achieved the rank of Lt Col, USAF. He founded and became the Director of Vets for Jesus, a group that serves veterans in the local area. He and his family live in Georgetown, South Carolina. He's living the American Dream and American motto: In God We Trust. He's also living out South Carolina's motto "While I breathe, I hope." He believes that we need to breathe and live and be free. We need to have hope for ourselves, our families, our local communities, state and nation. We need to love each other and have hope for our future. That can only come through God's blessing. May God bless South Carolina and may God bless America.
First Republican to run for this office perhaps since Reconstruction.
Views expressed here are those of the individual and are not sponsored, approved or endorsed by the U.S. Air Force or Dept of Defense.
- Take K-12 education back from monopolistic government school socialists. Solution: Parental Educational Choice. Competition in education leads to excellence.
- Stop paying healthy able bodied South Carolinians not to work.
- Bring infrastructure, manufacturing and high-tech jobs into Georgetown, Williamsburg, Berkeley, Florence and Horry Counties.
Close to a majority of African American males in SC (49%) do not graduate from high school. Not much better for all demographics. Parental Educational Choice in K-12 education will solve this complete failure and abomination of our K-12 education system. Democrat leaders ignore this utter failure. Competition in education drives excellence. Parents know what their children need, not big government bureaucrats who are aligned with socialist, associations and unions.
Parents of K-12 children should be given some of their taxpayer money back in the form of "education tax credits" or "education savings accounts" to use on their children's education either in govt run schools, online schools, charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, church schools, parochial schools or home education schools, etc. Parents should decide where and how their children are schooled, not bureaucrats.
Question: who is the #1 or #2 employers in Georgetown, Williamsburg, Berkeley, Florence and Horry Counties. Answer: oftentimes (if not most of the time) big government school districts. That's not healthy for local communities. Private sector small business should drive local economies, not big government bureaucracies.
Good paying jobs in the infrastructure, manufacturing and high-tech industries will not come to Georgetown, Williamsburg, Berkeley, Florence and Horry Counties unless we vastly improve our K-12 education system by implementing Parental Educational Choice.
The Bible, The Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution and South Carolina Constitution. Every politician in SC should read and practice these great historic documents as their conscience dictates.
Every citizen and every parent including myself has a duty to govern one's self and minor (dependent) children so that government at the local, state and federal levels doesn't have to spend unnecessary taxpayer resources on enforcing common sense individual and family solutions, which should be understood as one's personal responsibility.
We must exponentially improve K-12 education in SC. Thousands of students in SC are not reading, writing or performing STEM at their grade levels and subsequently don't graduate high school. And 49% of African American males don't graduate high school in South Carolina. That cannot be tolerated.
Let's make K-12 Education Great Again in South Carolina through parental educational (school) choice.
Put all schools on an equal playing field. Make all schools actively compete for all K-12 students. Competition leads to excellence. A rising tide lifts all boats (students).
"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 4, 2020
