This page is dedicated to exposing all of Catherine Templeton lies. Our opponent Catherine Templeton’s entire campaign is based on a bed of lies. Honestly, it’s wild. Here is a laundry list of lies with citations below:

  1. LIED about writing an immigration bill written by someone else
  2. LIED about bringing Boeing to South Carolina
  3. LIED on the job at the SC Ports Authority and was fired
  4. LIED about firing 85% of SC immigration enforcement agents
  5. LIED about gutting SC immigration enforcement budget from $2,000,000 down to $250,000
  6. LIED about being Founder of US Brick
  7. LIED about WCIV debate invitation

1. LIED about writing a bill written by someone else:

  • The bill Templeton is referencing, S 20 Act 69, was an immigration reform bill authored by Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley County) and was pre-filed on December 1, 2010 and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the same day.
  • Templeton wasn’t even confirmed by the Senate to work for South Carolina government until January 13, 2011.
  • The bill was signed into law June 27, 2011. Grooms was the original author of the bill and the one responsible for drafting it.
  • Templeton was not working in state government at the time the bill was pre-filed.
  • Templeton has never held elected office and therefore did not draft any bills.
  • Templeton has never been elected governor and therefore has never had the authority to sign a bill into law.
  • Watch her lies here

The author of the actual bill, State Senator Larry Grooms, endorsed us! 

2. LIED about bringing Boeing to South Carolina

Templeton has a new false and misleading ad claiming she’s the reason Boeing located manufacturing operations to South Carolina. The fact is Boeing announced its decision to locate its North Charleston facility in 2009, a full two years before the labor union dispute she cites in her ad.

3. LIED on the job at the SC Ports Authority and was fired

The President of SC Ports Authority fired Templeton because she was “detrimental” to the port.

Post and Courier writes “South Carolina Ports boss says Catherine Templeton lied about why she left agency, calls it ‘election campaign plot'”. Read the full story here.

 

4. LIED about firing 85% of SC immigration enforcement agents

Templeton lied about her immigration record where she cut immigration enforcement staff by 85% and cut the state’s immigration enforcement budget by almost $2 million down to $250,000!

No wonder there are so many illegal aliens in the Lowcountry! Templeton gutted our state’s immigration enforcement agency that was supposed to keep them out.

5. LIED about gutting SC immigration enforcement from $2,000,000 down to $250,000

Templeton gutted SC’s immigration enforcement agency’s funding from $2 million down to $250,000.

Joe Biden and Catherine Templeton are responsible for the illegal aliens in South Carolina.

6. LIED about being Conservative – voted in the 2020 Dem. Primary

7. LIED about doing her job, fired nurse who spoke up about Templeton’s mistake

After a school nurse reported to DHEC that children at an elementary school had been exposed to tuberculosis, it took Templeton more than one month to test the children for the disease. When parents at the school became outraged by DHEC’s slow response, Templeton fired the school nurse, claiming it was the nurse who “had not done her job,” even though the nurse is the one who reported the outbreak. Templeton’s decision to blame and fire the nurse cost SC taxpayers $150,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit.

8. LIED about her job with US Brick

Templeton’s claims she is the Co-Founder and Owner of US Brick, a company originally founded in 1939. Yet ANOTHER lie about her resume.

9. LIED about a debate with WCIV that never existed

Templeton sent out a news release blatantly lying about a phantom debate invitation from WCIV Channel 4. WCIV confirmed with our campaign they never sent out a debate invitation to Mace or anyone else.

  • Her claims are not just dishonest; they are a desperate attempt to shift focus from her abysmal record, and her fake resume.

Lowcountry voters deserve the truth. Templeton is nothing more than an opportunist bought and paid for with Kevin McCarthy’s millions. $6,000,000 to be exact is how much the DC Swamp is spending to prop up Catherine Templeton’s lies.