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Sam Skardon

Sam Skardon

South Carolina Director of Business Development at Clean Energy Fund of the Carolinas and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (2026, on Jermaine Johnson's ticket).

Oct 14, 2026

10:22
Yeah.
10:22
You're ...
10:23
A- And Jermaine has been doing this for 15 months.
10:26
Uh, he's been out there for more than a year.
10:28
I'm lucky I got to parachute in at the end.
10:30
You know, you mentioned the decision was in July.
10:33
So, uh, this is something that, that we're able to do for a three-month campaign, s- sprint to the finish.
13:49
Yeah.
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37:17
Wow.
37:17
So that's one of the reasons I'm passionate about giving people wealth building opportunities to actually own their business.
37:22
Because a lot of the people we're describing are line cooks, they're baristas, they're hairdressers making very low wages.
37:29
And the only way in this state right now for them to rise out of poverty is to actually own their work, to own their hard work so that they're not making $15,000 a year, but actually building equity in a business that they're working hard in.
37:42
So that's what we do.
37:43
But it also ties together.
37:44
The biggest reason people actually don't, entrepreneurs don't get out there and start their own business, it's healthcare.

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48:18
Mm-hmm.

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