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Jim DeMint

American politician (born )

Jim DeMint

DeMint in

In office
April 4, &#;– May 2,
Preceded byEdwin Feulner
Succeeded byEdwin Feulner
In office
January 3, &#;– January 2,
Preceded byFritz Hollings
Succeeded byTim Scott
In office
January 3, &#;– January 3,
Preceded byBob Inglis
Succeeded byBob Inglis
Born

James Warren DeMint


() September 2, (age&#;73)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse

Debbie Henderson

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EducationUniversity of Tennessee (BA)
Clemson University (MBA)

James Warren DeMint (born September 2, ) 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 South Carolina's 4th congressional district from to He was elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in and reelected in DeMint served in the Senate until January 2, , when he stepped down to become president of The Heritage Foundation.

On May 2, , 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][verification needed][3]

DeMint attended Christ Church Episcopal School and Wade Hampton High School.[citation needed] He played drums for a cover band called Salt & Pepper.[4] He received a bachelor's degree in from the University of Tennessee,[5] where he was a part of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and received an MBA in from Clemson University.[5]

Early career

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

U.S.

House of Representatives

Elections

DeMint's first involvement in politics began in , 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 , 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.[citation needed] 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, 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 , and defeated an underfunded Democrat in [citation needed]

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 , 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

election

Main article: United States Senate election in South Carolina

DeMint declared his candidacy for the Senate on December 12, , after Sen.

Ernest Hollings announced that he would retire after the elections.[citation needed] DeMint was the White House's preferred candidate in the Republican primary.[citation needed]

In the Republican primary on June 8, , DeMint placed a distant second, % 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.[citation needed]

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 percentage points.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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][19] 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.[20]

election

Main article: United States Senate election in South Carolina

DeMint easily won re-nomination in the Republican Party primary.[21] Democratic Party opponent Alvin Greene won an upset primary victory over Vic Rawl.[22][23][24][25] Greene received scrutiny from Democratic Party officials, with some calling for Greene to withdraw his candidacy or be replaced on the ballot.[26] On November 2, , DeMint defeated Greene by a margin of 63% to 28%, with Green Party candidate Tom Clements receiving 9% of the vote.[27]

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.[28] In , DeMint began leading the Senate Steering Committee.[29] DeMint also served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.[30][31]

As a member of the th United States Congress, DeMint joined the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.[32] In , 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.[33][34] Later in , 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.[35] At the end of his first term, DeMint was appointed to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee for the impeachment of federal judge Thomas Porteous.[36]

After being re-elected in , DeMint became the highest-ranking elected official associated with the Tea Party.[37][38][39][40] 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.[41]

In , DeMint announced his resignation from the Senate effective January 2, , to take a job as president of The Heritage Foundation.[42] On December 17, , South Carolina governorNikki Haley announced that she would name Congressman Tim Scott to fill DeMint's vacated seat.[43]

Political positions

DeMint is a member of the Republican Party[44] and is aligned with the Tea Party movement.[45] In , DeMint was identified by Salon as one of the most conservative members of the Senate.[44][45][46]

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.[47] He has supported many changes to federal spending, such as prioritizing a balanced budget amendment instead of increasing the national debt limit.[48] 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.[49] In , 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.[50] In March , DeMint's earmark reform plans were again defeated.[51] 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.[52][53]

DeMint has also been a proponent of free trade agreements, advocated for the privatization of Social Security benefits, and in authored the "Health Care Freedom Plan", which proposed giving tax credits to those who are unable to afford health insurance.[47][54][55] 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."[56]

DeMint was the sole 'Nay' vote for the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of [57]

DeMint was opposed to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of and the bailouts during the automotive industry crisis of – He also led a group of senators in opposing government loans to corporations.[58][59] He supports a high level of government accountability through the auditing of federal agencies.[58]

Foreign policy

In , DeMint voted against the NATO intervention during the Kosovo war.[58] DeMint voted to authorize military force in Iraq in [58] In , DeMint voted in favor of Rand Paul's resolution opposing military involvement in Libya.[45][58] He favored preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons over a policy of containment after their development.[60][better&#;source&#;needed]

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.[61][62] DeMint favors legal immigration and opposes granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.[63] He has expressed opposition to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of on the basis that granting amnesty to illegal immigrants may cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars.[64][65][66]

In a May 15, , editorial in Newsweek, DeMint stated that while he continued to support free trade, he was wrong about liberalizing trade with China.[67]

Obama administration

In October , after the Honduran Army, on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court, removedManuel Zelaya as president, DeMint visited the country to gather information.[68] The trip was approved by Senate Minority LeaderMitch 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.[68]

In late , DeMint criticized Barack Obama for waiting eight months into his first term as president before nominating a new head of the Transportation Security Administration.[69] After the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight in December , DeMint stated that President Obama had not put enough focus on terrorism while in office.[69]

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."[70]

Social issues

DeMint opposes abortion except when the woman's life is in danger[71][better&#;source&#;needed] and opposing research from stem cells derived from human embryos.[72][73]

DeMint voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in December ,[74] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of [75]

He voted in favor of declaring English the official language of the US government.[63]

DeMint is firmly opposed to same-sex marriage.

In his book Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse, DeMint states:

Does government have the right to reshape cultural mores by redefining religious institutions to sanction behavior that is considered immoral by all the world's religions? In America, people should have a right to live with whomever they want, but redefining marriage to promote behavior that is deemed costly and destructive is not the proper role of government.[76]

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

We just cannot have, particularly the federal government, redefining marriage or telling us what is right or wrong.

And if we help America understand that, folks, we're not trying to get the government to do it our way or your way; what we're asking for is the freedom to allow people to live out their faith and values and their lives the way they want. And we believe that our side will win because I'm convinced that most Americans want to have decent moral lives and share our same values.

But if the government continues to press in the wrong direction, it begins to change our culture.[77]

DeMint has repeatedly voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.[78] He has also voted to ban same-sex adoption in Washington, D.C.[78] DeMint drew considerable criticism by saying that openly gay teachers should be banned from teaching in public schools.[79]

In a 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.[80] On October 1, , DeMint, in comments that echoed what he had said in , told a rally of his supporters that openly homosexual and unmarried sexually active people should not be teachers.[81] 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.[18][82]

Later career

Senate Conservatives Fund

In , 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.[83] The SCF is associated with the Tea Party movement.[84][85] It supports conservative Republican politicians in primary challenges and general elections.[49][86] SCF states that it raised $ million toward the U.S.

Senate elections and which endorsed successful first-time Senate candidates Pat Toomey, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio.[87][better&#;source&#;needed] DeMint left SCF in [88]

The Heritage Foundation

Further information: The Heritage Foundation

On April 4, , DeMint started his first full day as president of The Heritage Foundation.[89]The Washington Post reported that DeMint's predecessor at the Heritage Foundation, Edwin Feulner, was paid a base salary of $, in compared to a U.S.

Senator's salary of $, and that year DeMint was one of the poorest members of the Senate, with an estimated wealth of $40,[90]

On May 2, , DeMint was fired from The Heritage Foundation following a unanimous vote of the foundation's board of trustees,[91][92][93] which had lost confidence in his ability to maintain the organization's role as a fount of conservative thinking.[94] 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."[95]

Citizens for Self-Governance

In June , 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 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.[96]

Conservative Partnership Institute

Main article: Conservative Partnership Institute

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

election results

As part of the attempts to overturn the United States presidential election, DeMint signed a December 10, , 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.[]

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.[]

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