If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

Scott ranked first in the nine candidate Republican primary of June 8 2010 receiving a plurality of 32% of the vote. S. S.

A graduate of Charleston Southern University Scott owns an insurance agency and has worked as a financial advisor. Previously Scott served one term in the South Carolina General Assembly (2009–2011) and 13 years on the Charleston County Council (1996–2008). Elected in November 2010 to the 112th Congress he was the first Republican African-American Representative from South Carolina since 1897.