Jim DeMint explained

Jim DeMint
Office:President of the Heritage Foundation
Term Start:April 4, 2013
Term End:May 2, 2017
Predecessor:Edwin Feulner
Successor:Edwin Feulner
Office1:United States Senator
from South Carolina
Term Start1:January 3, 2005
Term End1:January 2, 2013
Predecessor1:Fritz Hollings
Successor1:Tim Scott
State2:South Carolina
Term Start2:January 3, 1999
Term End2:January 3, 2005
Predecessor2:Bob Inglis
Successor2:Bob Inglis
Birth Name:James Warren DeMint
Birth Date:2 September 1951
Birth Place:Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Party:Republican
Children:4
Education:University of Tennessee (BA)
Clemson University (MBA)

James Warren DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is an American businessman, author, and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina and as president of The Heritage Foundation. A leading figure in the Tea Party movement, DeMint is a member of the Republican Party and is the founder of the Senate Conservatives Fund.

DeMint served as the United States representative for from 1999 to 2005. He was elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in 2004 and reelected in 2010. DeMint served in the Senate until January 2, 2013, when he stepped down to become president of The Heritage Foundation. On May 2, 2017, DeMint resigned his position at Heritage at the request of its board. He later became a senior advisor to Citizens for Self-Governance and the founding chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute.

Early life and education

DeMint was born in Greenville, South Carolina, one of four children. His parents, Betty W. (née Rawlings) and Thomas Eugene DeMint,[1] divorced when he was five years old. Following the divorce, Betty DeMint operated a dance studio out of the family's home.[2] [3]

DeMint attended Christ Church Episcopal School and Wade Hampton High School. He played drums for a cover band called Salt & Pepper.[4] He received a bachelor's degree in 1973 from the University of Tennessee, where he was a part of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and received an MBA in 1981 from Clemson University.

Early career

DeMint joined his father-in-law's advertising firm in Greenville in 1981, working in the field of market research.[5] [6] In 1983, he founded The DeMint Group, a research firm with businesses, schools, colleges, and hospitals as clients.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

DeMint's first involvement in politics began in 1992, when he was hired by Republican Representative Bob Inglis to work on his campaign for South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District. Inglis defeated three-term incumbent Democrat Liz J. Patterson, and DeMint performed message-testing and marketing for Inglis through two more successful elections.[7]

In 1998, Inglis ran for the U.S. Senate instead of seeking re-election to the House of Representatives. DeMint left his firm to run for Inglis' House seat.[5] [7] The district was considered the most Republican in the state, and it was understood that whoever won the primary would be heavily favored to be the district's next congressman. DeMint finished second in the Republican primary behind State Senator and fellow Greenville resident Michael Fair.[8] In the runoff, DeMint narrowly defeated Fair by 2,030 votes.[9] He then defeated Democratic State Senator Glenn Reese with 57 percent of the vote to Reese's 40 percent.[10] DeMint faced no major-party opposition in 2000, and defeated an underfunded Democrat in 2002.

Tenure

DeMint was elected president of the freshman class of House Republicans.[11] [12] DeMint pledged to serve only three terms in the House.[6]

The Washington Post and The Christian Post have described DeMint as a "staunch conservative", based on his actions during his time in the House.[13] [14] He broke rank with his party and powerful state interests several times: DeMint was one of 34 Republicans to oppose President Bush's No Child Left Behind program and one of 25 to oppose Medicare Part D.[11] He sought to replace No Child Left Behind with a state-based block-grant program for schools.[6] DeMint also worked to privatize Social Security by allowing the creation of individual investment accounts in the federal program. In 2003, DeMint sponsored legislation to allow people under the age of 55 to set aside 3 percent to 8 percent of their Social Security withholding income in personal investment accounts.[6] DeMint was also the only South Carolina House member to vote for normalizing trade relations with China, arguing in favor of free trade between the countries. He also provided a crucial swing vote on a free trade bill regarding Caribbean countries. His votes led South Carolina's influential textile industry to heavily oppose him in his subsequent House and Senate races.[15] [16]

U.S. Senate

2004 election

See main article: 2004 United States Senate election in South Carolina. DeMint declared his candidacy for the Senate on December 12, 2002, after Sen. Ernest Hollings announced that he would retire after the 2004 elections. DeMint was the White House's preferred candidate in the Republican primary.

In the Republican primary on June 8, 2004, DeMint placed a distant second, 10.3% behind former governor David Beasley and just barely ahead of Thomas Ravenel. Ravenel endorsed DeMint in the following runoff. DeMint won the runoff handily, however.

DeMint then faced Democratic state education superintendent Inez Tenenbaum in the November general election. DeMint led Tenenbaum through much of the campaign and ultimately defeated her[17] by 9.6 percentage points. DeMint's win meant that South Carolina was represented by two Republican senators for the first time since Reconstruction, when Thomas J. Robertson and John J. Patterson served together as senators.

DeMint stirred controversy during debates with Tenenbaum when he stated his belief that openly gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. When questioned by reporters, DeMint also stated that single mothers who live with their boyfriends should similarly be excluded from being educators.[18] He later apologized for making the remarks, saying they were "distracting from the main issues of the debate." He also noted that these were opinions based on his personal values, not issues he would or could deal with as a member of Congress.[19]

2010 election

See main article: 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina. DeMint easily won re-nomination in the Republican Party primary.[20] Democratic Party opponent Alvin Greene won an upset primary victory over Vic Rawl.[21] [22] [23] [24] Greene received scrutiny from Democratic Party officials, with some calling for Greene to withdraw his candidacy or be replaced on the ballot.[25] On November 2, 2010, DeMint defeated Greene by a margin of 63% to 28%, with Green Party candidate Tom Clements receiving 9% of the vote.[26]

Tenure

In his first term, DeMint was appointed to the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging.[27] In 2006, DeMint began leading the Senate Steering Committee.[28] DeMint also served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.[29] [30]

As a member of the 111th United States Congress, DeMint joined the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.[31] In 2009, DeMint was one of two senators who voted against Hillary Clinton's appointment to Secretary of State, and the next year he introduced legislation to completely repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare.[32] [33] Later in 2010, he introduced another piece of legislation titled the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny, which aimed to require congressional approval of any major regulation change made by a federal agency.[34] At the end of his first term, DeMint was appointed to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee for the impeachment of federal judge Thomas Porteous.[35]

After being re-elected in 2010, DeMint became the highest-ranking elected official associated with the Tea Party.[36] [37] [38] [39] During the first year of his second term, DeMint released a letter signed by over 30 other Senate Republicans asking the supercommittee tasked with balancing the federal budget to do so within the next 10 years, and without creating any net tax increases.[40]

In 2012, DeMint announced his resignation from the Senate effective January 2, 2013, to take a job as president of The Heritage Foundation.[41] On December 17, 2012, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced that she would name Congressman Tim Scott to fill DeMint's vacated seat.[42]

Political positions

DeMint is a member of the Republican Party[43] and is aligned with the Tea Party movement. In 2011, DeMint was identified by Salon as one of the most conservative members of the Senate.[43] [44] [45]

Economy and budget

Throughout his political career, DeMint has favored a type of tax reform that would replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax and, in addition, abolish the Internal Revenue Service.[46] He has supported many changes to federal spending, such as prioritizing a balanced budget amendment instead of increasing the national debt limit.[47] As a senator, DeMint proposed a two-year earmark ban to prevent members of Congress from spending federal money on projects in their home states.[48] In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama co-sponsored DeMint's earmark reform proposal, although it ultimately failed to pass in the Senate.[49] In March 2010, DeMint's earmark reform plans were again defeated.[50] In November of the same year, DeMint, along with nine other senators including Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, proposed another moratorium on earmarks which was adopted by Senate Republicans.[51] [52]

DeMint has also been a proponent of free trade agreements, advocated for the privatization of Social Security benefits, and in 2009 authored the "Health Care Freedom Plan", which proposed giving tax credits to those who are unable to afford health insurance.[46] [53] [54] DeMint opposed President Barack Obama's health care reform efforts, saying of the Affordable Care Act, "If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."[55]

DeMint was the sole 'Nay' vote for the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008.[56]

DeMint was opposed to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the bailouts during the automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010. He also led a group of senators in opposing government loans to corporations.[57] He supports a high level of government accountability through the auditing of federal agencies.

Foreign policy

In 1999, DeMint voted against the NATO intervention during the Kosovo war.[58] DeMint voted to authorize military force in Iraq in 2002.[58] In 2011, DeMint voted in favor of Rand Paul's resolution opposing military involvement in Libya.[44] [58] He favored preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons over a policy of containment after their development.[59]

DeMint has also expressed concern about various United Nations treaties, such as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Law of the Sea Treaty.[60] [61] DeMint favors legal immigration and opposes granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.[62] He has expressed opposition to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 on the basis that granting amnesty to illegal immigrants may cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars.[63] [64] [65]

In a May 15, 2020, editorial in Newsweek, DeMint stated that while he continued to support free trade, he was wrong about liberalizing trade with China.[66]

Obama administration

In October 2009, after the Honduran Army, on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court, removed Manuel Zelaya as president, DeMint visited the country to gather information. The trip was approved by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell but opposed by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry. DeMint supported the new government, while the Obama administration favored Zelaya's return to the presidency.[67]

In late 2009, DeMint criticized Barack Obama for waiting eight months into his first term as president before nominating a new head of the Transportation Security Administration.[68] After the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 in December 2009, DeMint stated that President Obama had not put enough focus on terrorism while in office.[68]

DeMint blamed Obama for racism in the United States. He said that Obama "took race back to the '60s, as far as I'm concerned. He made everything a race issue, or at least saw it through a racial lens. The country had moved toward bending over backward to create equality. But then suddenly, with Obama, he just lit the fires. I thought when he was elected that was the big victory, that we had put racism behind us."[69]

Social issues

DeMint opposes abortion except when the woman's life is in danger[70] and opposing research from stem cells derived from human embryos.[71] [72]

DeMint voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in December 2009,[73] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.[74]

He voted in favor of declaring English the official language of the US government.[62]

DeMint is firmly opposed to same-sex marriage. In his book Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse, DeMint states:

DeMint also argues that same-sex marriage infringes upon religious liberty:

DeMint has repeatedly voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.[75] He has also voted to ban same-sex adoption in Washington, D.C.[75] DeMint drew considerable criticism by saying that openly gay teachers should be banned from teaching in public schools.[76]

In a 2008 interview, DeMint said that while government does not have the right to restrict homosexuality, it also should not encourage it through legalizing same-sex marriage, due to the "costly secondhand consequences" to society from the prevalence of certain diseases among homosexuals.[77] On October 1, 2010, DeMint, in comments that echoed what he had said in 2004, told a rally of his supporters that openly homosexual and unmarried sexually active people should not be teachers.[78] In response, the National Organization for Women, the National Education Association, the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, GOProud (a GOP group), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force asked for DeMint's apology.[79] [80]

Later career

Senate Conservatives Fund

In 2008, DeMint formed the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), a political action committee with the intention of supporting conservative candidates that may have otherwise been overlooked by the national party.[81] The SCF is associated with the Tea Party movement.[82] [83] It supports conservative Republican politicians in primary challenges and general elections.[84] SCF states that it raised $9.1 million toward the 2010 U.S. Senate elections and which endorsed successful first-time Senate candidates Pat Toomey, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio.[85] DeMint left SCF in 2012.[86]

The Heritage Foundation

On April 4, 2013, DeMint started his first full day as president of The Heritage Foundation.[87] The Washington Post reported that DeMint's predecessor at the Heritage Foundation, Edwin Feulner, was paid a base salary of $477,097 in 2010 compared to a U.S. Senator's salary of $174,000 and that year DeMint was one of the poorest members of the Senate, with an estimated wealth of $40,501.[88]

On May 2, 2017, DeMint was fired from The Heritage Foundation following a unanimous vote of the foundation's board of trustees,[89] [90] [91] which had lost confidence in his ability to maintain the organization's role as a fount of conservative thinking.[92] A public statement by the board said a thorough investigation of the foundation's operations under DeMint found "significant and worsening management issues that led to a breakdown of internal communications and cooperation." "While the organization has seen many successes," the board statement said, "Jim DeMint and a handful of his closest advisers failed to resolve these problems."[93]

Citizens for Self-Governance

In June 2017, DeMint became a senior advisor to Citizens for Self-Governance, a group which is seeking to call a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution in order to reduce federal government spending and power. According to DeMint, "The Tea Party needs a new mission. They realize that all the work they did in 2010 has not resulted in all the things they hoped for. Many of them are turning to Article V." The proposed constitutional convention would impose fiscal restraint on Washington D.C., reduce the federal government's authority over states, and impose term limits on federal officials.[94]

Conservative Partnership Institute

See main article: Conservative Partnership Institute. In 2017, DeMint founded the Conservative Partnership Institute, of which he serves as chairman.[95] [96] The stated purpose of the CPI is the professional development of conservative staffers and elected officials.[95] Mark Meadows joined as senior partner in January 2021.[97] The Save America PAC donated $1 million to the CPI.[98] A 2022 NPR investigation found CPI might be violating prohibitions on 501(c)(3) charities providing benefits to political parties (in this case, the Republican Party).[99]

2020 election results

As part of the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, DeMint signed a December 10, 2020, letter from the Conservative Action Project asking state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan to disregard the popular vote outcomes in each of those states and appoint slates of electors to the Electoral College in support of President Donald Trump.[100]

Personal life

DeMint's wife, Debbie, is one of three children of the late Greenville advertising entrepreneur and South Carolina Republican figure James Marvin Henderson Sr.[101]

Works

External links

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.themediabriefing.com/people/jim-demint Jim DeMint | TheMediaBriefing
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  34. News: DeMint Wants Law to Rein In Regulations . David . Herszenhorn . The New York Times . September 22, 2010 . November 1, 2013.
  35. News: First Senate impeachment trial since Clinton starts . Ed . O'Keefe . The Washington Post . September 13, 2010 . November 1, 2013.
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  40. News: GOP senators warn super committee on taxes . Lisa . Mascaro . The Los Angeles Times . November 3, 2011 . November 1, 2013.
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  46. News: The DeMint factor . Joe . Conason . Salon . October 7, 2004 . July 3, 2013.
  47. News: Fighting Words: DeMint Warns Republicans They May Be 'Gone' if They Support Debt Ceiling Increase . Jonathan . Karl . ABC . June 24, 2011 . July 3, 2013.
  48. News: Showdown Looms as Jim DeMint Faction Presses for Earmark Ban . Raju . Chebium . https://archive.today/20130830191005/http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=106693 . dead . August 30, 2013 . WLTX . November 12, 2010 . July 3, 2013.
  49. Web site: Sen. Jim DeMint says Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks . politifact.com . PolitiFact . July 3, 2013.
  50. Web site: Vote looms for earmarks ban . Humberto . Sanchez . govexec.com . November 23, 2010 . Gov Exec . July 3, 2013.
  51. News: Plan to Ban Earmarks Exposes Republican Split . Brian . Montopoli . CBS . November 9, 2010 . July 3, 2013.
  52. News: House Republicans Adopt Earmarks Ban in New Congress . Brian . Montopoli . CBS . November 18, 2010 . July 3, 2013.
  53. News: DeMint, Tenenbaum debate touches on jobs, insurance, education . WISTV . October 18, 2004 . July 3, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054549/http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2443801&nav=0RaMS6a1 . September 21, 2013 . dead .
  54. News: Republican plans for health care reform similar to Obamacare hd . The Colorado Springs Gazette . September 21, 2009 . July 3, 2013.
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  60. News: GOP Democrats spar over UN Disability Treaty in US Senate . Digital Journal . November 28, 2012 . July 3, 2013.
  61. News: LOST treaty . The Post and Courier . June 6, 2012 . July 3, 2013.
  62. Web site: Jim DeMint on Immigration . Ontheissues.org . October 24, 2013.
  63. News: GOP Leaders Playing Both Sides On Immigration Reform . Ryan . Grim . The Huffington Post . June 23, 2013 . July 3, 2013.
  64. News: Senate amends immigration bill to bolster border security . Tampa Bay Times . June 26, 2013 . July 3, 2013.
  65. News: Jim DeMint: Immigration reform will cost Americans trillions . Jessica . Chasmar . The Washington Times . May 5, 2013 . July 3, 2013.
  66. Web site: DeMint . Jim . I've Changed My Mind About China. America Should Too. . May 15, 2020 . . May 31, 2020.
  67. News: Democrats target Jim DeMint's Honduras trip . Carol E. . Lee . Politico . October 2, 2009 . July 3, 2013.
  68. News: DeMint: Obama "Has Downplayed Terrorism" . Daniel . Carty . CBS . December 30, 2009 . July 3, 2013.
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  72. Web site: Jim DeMint on Stem Cell . December 15, 2010 . thepoliticalguide.come . The Political Guide . July 18, 2013 . September 21, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054622/http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/South_Carolina/Jim_DeMint/Views/Stem_Cell_Research/ . dead .
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  75. Web site: Jim DeMint on Civil Rights . OnTheIssues.org . February 17, 2015.
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  79. Kinnard, Meg. ["Gay, women's groups want apology from DeMint"], Associated Press, The State, October 7, 2010.
  80. Terkel, Amanda. "Teachers Unions Pile on DeMint: 'Ignorance and Hate Go Hand In Hand'", Huffington Post, October 7, 2010.
  81. News: Jim DeMint's Path to Power . Lisa . Lerer . https://web.archive.org/web/20100920190649/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_39/b4196031953733.htm . dead . September 20, 2010 . Bloomberg Businessweek . September 16, 2010 . November 1, 2013.
  82. Web site: McConnell's Repeal Vote Rallies the Base. Chris. Good. February 1, 2011. The Atlantic.
  83. Web site: DeMint to Iowa amid denials of presidential run. Michael. O'Brien. January 27, 2011. TheHill.
  84. News: Democrats go after Tom Cotton . Rachel . Weiner . The Washington Post . June 27, 2013 . July 3, 2013.
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  88. News: Rachel. Weiner. Jim DeMint leaving the Senate. The Washington Post. December 6, 2012.
  89. Web site: Jim DeMint Ousted From Heritage Foundation In Major Shake-Up . NPR . May 2, 2017 . June 13, 2017.
  90. Web site: Former Sen. Jim DeMint Ousted at Heritage Foundation. Kate. Ackley. May 2, 2017. www.rollcall.com.
  91. Web site: The Heritage Foundation ousts Jim DeMint after power struggle. May 2, 2017. PBS NewsHour.
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  94. News: Schouten. Fredreka. Exclusive: In latest job, Jim DeMint wants to give Tea Party ' a new mission'. June 13, 2017. USA Today. June 12, 2017.
  95. News: DeMint launches new group to boost conservatives in Washington . July 26, 2017 . . Jake . Lahut.
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