natalie is here along with her husband campaign adviser and historian jack bass. thank you both for coming here. i m so excited as a fellow south carolinian. you have to tell me, how did this idea come to you? i get up every morning and i go outside and i look at my lemon trees and my olive tree and i look at my lemon lime tree and i get two newspapers, the times, and the charleston post and courier which is the best little small-city newspaper maybe in the united states, and i get them and i take them back to bed and i read them and drink my diet coke and i was i read this article about jim demint refusing an earmark for the port. for the port, 400-some-thousand dollar emark. this port generates something like 260,000 something jobs and it s terribly important to south carolina.
they re not going to make a big dent. i do know where i d start. do you have serious question, do you have a view on social security? how do we deal with the social security or medicare or medicaid prices? i have asked everyone i know if they would give up their social security or their medicare. and they have said no. so the idea that anyone thinks that they re going to cut social security or medicare is ridiculous. i m a negotiator, let s massage all that can i ask you one other hard question, of all the things you cooked, what s your favorite dish? i hate that. i take the question back. for people like me i love a perfectly roasted chicken. you can t beat it, can you? no, no. all right, one last question, in this crazy political season, is it plus or minus to be a chef? does it help you? of course it helps me. i ve had three kitchens. can supervise 36 people running around crazy like with their head cut off like i did in a
behind the scenes in politics. politics in south carolina where i have deep family roots is bizarre. you ve got a governor pretending to be on a hike when he s in a foreign country with his girlfriend. the current senate race is between tea party darling jim demint and alvin green an unemployed democrat who is facing criminal charges, and a green party candidate now into the fray comes a woman who is best known for policies like this this is three eggs with a pinch of cream of tarter whipped up all by themselves, no yolk in there remember, remember, very careful, and then i m going to add just a little bit of sugar right now and whip it in and i just do that by hand. it s much easier. that is chef natalie dupree. she made another video announcing her decision to take on tea party powerhouse jim demint as a write-in candidate. let s take a look. hello. i want you to come inside and
this is three eggs with a pinch of cream of tarter whipped up all by themselves, no yolk in there remember, remember, very careful, and then i m going to add just a little bit of sugar right now and whip it in and i just do that by hand. it s much easier. that is chef natalie dupree. she made another video announcing her decision to take on tea party powerhouse jim demint as a write-in candidate. let s take a look. hello. i want you to come inside and just see how easy it will be to vote for me, natalie dupree as a write-in for united states senate. should you want to do a write-in vote, you touch write-in and then you just touch the letters of the name of the person that you want to write-in, and then you touch accept.
welcome back. i would love to keep this going but we only have a few minutes left. there s been a lot of talk about what is and isn t in the constitution. if you can make your own personal amendment, what would it be? natalie, we ll start with you. i live this would constitutional scholar who s writing a book about the 14th amendment. and i think what i would do is write an amendment to change the way the 14th amendment did away with the rights of african-americans and made it instead that it was corporations that had the rights. and i would take the rights away from the corporations. interesting. i think for me it would actually be taking away a right as well. if you don t vote in two