Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend for yielding and for his leadership, and I thank my friend on the other side of the aisle for his support. Madam Speaker, in late March 2019, University of South Carolina senior Samantha Josephson--``Sami'' to friends and family--left a late- night outing with her friends alone because she had to work in the morning. The extraordinarily talented student, who had just earned a full scholarship to Drexel University law school, ordered an Uber. In a congested part of Columbia known as Five Points, a predator, pretending to be her Uber driver, took her in his car and brutally murdered her. Less than 24 hours later, Sami was found dead in a field. The murderer, Nathaniel Rowland, was caught. In a heart-wrenching trial in July 2021, Rowland was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Presiding Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman noted the ``horrific and most brutal nature'' of Sami's murder and said: ``It is the most severe murder that has occurred that I have been a witness to, as far as presiding in court or participating in as a lawyer.'' Almost immediately, however, after her death, and notwithstanding their excruciating agony over the loss of their precious daughter, Sami's parents, Seymour and Marci, began pushing for comprehensive new protection policies at Uber and Lyft and legislation to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that no one else is ever killed, raped, or assaulted by a rideshare driver.…”