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Engineer to Politician: Joe Madge on Breaking SC's Supermajority
What does it take to challenge a supermajority? Barrett Gruber sits down with Joe Madge — engineer, community organizer, and candidate for South Carolina House District 89 — for a policy-rich conversation that covers education, healthcare, infrastructure, gun safety, reproductive rights, and the structural political problem that underlies all of it.
Joe's path to politics isn't a typical one. Trained as an engineer, his approach to governance is grounded in data, evidence, and pragmatic problem-solving — a contrast he draws deliberately against the ideological entrenchment that has defined…
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