Sweeney vows to bring conservative representation to Grand Strand
Horry County businessman and conservative talk radio show host Brian Sweeney, aka “Regular Joe”, has announced that he will take a hiatus from the show while he seeks the Republican nomination for South Carolina House District 106.
Sweeney is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook who moved to South Carolina from New York 18 years ago and has never looked back. He is the owner of Lake Agency SC, LLC in Surfside Beach, and was an international insurance broker for 40 years before starting his own firm.
“Considering the crisis confronting our state and nation, the people of Horry County deserve a Representative with the courage to stand up to the Columbia establishment and demand accountability. We need a true conservative leader who is not afraid to upset the status quo in order to prevent South Carolina from slipping farther down the path of cronyism and liberal social policies,” Sweeney said.
“Regrettably, when conservatives in the House took a bold stand last year and refused to sign a loyalty pledge to support the House leadership and help some of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives get re-elected, our current Representative knuckled-under to pressure from the Columbia establishment rather than represent the people of this district. I want to be a different kind of Representative,” Sweeney said.
Sweeney and his wife Marilyn have one son who lives in Virgina with his family.
Sweeney previously ran in 2022, taking the race to a run-off. That election was marred when the Horry Country Board of Elections mistakenly mailed approximately 1,300 mail-in ballots to Democratic voters. Partly as a result of this egregious error by the Board of Elections, Sweeney contested the election results but the South Carolina GOP denied his appeal.
Sweeney’s campaign will focus on a number of issues including the need to close South Carolina elections so that Democrats cannot meddle in the Republican primaries thereby diluting conservative votes.
“Until we close the primaries in South Carolina, liberal Republicans will be able to depend on cross-over voting by Democrats to keep conservatives from getting elected,” Sweeney said.
The Republican primary will be held June 11. District 106 includes Murrells Inlet, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Deerfield and part of Myrtle Beach.
For more information about Brian Sweeney visit briansweeneyschd106.com.
The Brian Sweeney radio program will continue with a fill in host.