- ISLAND STRONG - LIFELONG LOCAL, BUSINESSMAN.
- Fix the Roads. - Stop the Flooding. - Reform the Courts. Vote: June 9
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- ISLAND STRONG - LIFELONG LOCAL, BUSINESSMAN.
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LIFELONG LOCAL. VETERAN. BUSINESSMAN. LEADER.
James Island • Johns Island • Folly Beach
• Kiawah • Seabrook
The Five Islands don’t need promises — they need PROVEN LEADERSHIP.
Our islands face real challenges: flooding that threatens homes, broken roads that limit access, and a judicial system that too often fails families. Solving these problems takes more than ambition or theory. It requires local knowledge, real-world problem-solving, and the ability to work directly with Republican leadership in Columbia — where funding and reform are decided.
This race is about choosing a representative who knows these islands, understands their challenges firsthand, and is ready to deliver results on DAY ONE.
Vote Carlton Walker — a proven innovator in business with strong working relationships across the House Republican Super-Majority Leadership, and a veteran who has defended the Constitution with his life in the
United States Military.
Carlton’s understanding of these islands isn’t based on maps or briefings — it’s built from lived experience. From seeing his 1961 Corvair filled with pluff mud during a hurricane, to walking through ankle-deep floodwater on Folly Beach just to get to work, Carlton knows these challenges personally.
Since 2021, he has also stood publicly in Columbia testifying about the failures of our judicial system — NOT AS A LAWYER WHO PROFITS FROM THE BROKEN SYSTEM, but AS A CITIZEN DEMANDING
ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORM.
That lived experience — and his sworn commitment to defend the Constitution — is what drives his determination to fix our roads, mitigate flooding, and restore fairness to our courts.
This election isn’t about slogans. It’s about who truly knows these islands — and who doesn’t.
Some candidates arrived only recently — less than two years ago.
Others come from families embedded for generations in a legal system that has become more expensive, more complex, and less fair for everyday families. After three generations, nothing has changed.
Our islands deserve better.
A citizen-legislator who understands bad roads, chronic flooding, and a court system that has drifted away from constitutional fairness — and who has already defended those principles in uniform.
ROOTED HERE. WORKING HERE.
FIGHTING FOR THE ISLANDS.
Showing up. Fixing real local problems.
Because fixing these problems takes more than talk — it takes local knowledge, real-world experience, and the ability to work directly with Republican leadership in Columbia to bring funding home on DAY ONE.
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From my first job as a maintenance worker picking up trash at the Folly Beach County Park while I was in high school at James Island, to surfing with my station wagon, to serving in the Navy as a Blue Shirt on the flight deck during the Somalia mission in 1993, to selling Cutco to help pay for college, and later renovating homes, I am now running to be your representative.
Local control, faster results, SCDOT Reform,BETTER
Fixing the Drainage.
Carlton fights, Ending lawyer-legislator control!
USS WASP 1993 recovering a shot down helicopter.
Protecting what makes each Island unique! DETAILS.
Grew up on the Islands and selling CUTCO 700k

We just haven’t been getting what we need.
Our roads are failing.
Our areas keep flooding.
Our judicial system is broken.
Meanwhile, Columbia keeps
letting insiders run the show.
That ends with Carlton.
✔ Roads & SCDOT Reform
✔ Flooding, Clean Water, Smart Growth
✔ Judicial Reform, Accountability




Carlton Walker stands in the center as a section leader, responsible for twelve sailors behind him. His Company 125 later earned the Commanding Officer’s White Flag of Excellence, an honor awarded for discipline, unity, and leadership under extreme pressure.
On Week 5, Day 1, after three consecutive days of relentless physical and mental conditioning, operating on barely ten hours of sleep total, the company commander halted training and ordered all sixty recruits to form a tight circle around the American flag. Each man was instructed to hold it, chest to boots, thumb and finger gripping the fabric that symbolized what they were being trained to defend. They were told to make eye contact with every man in the room.
Then the Company Commander stopped yelling, spoke quietly, and deliberately.
He told them that some of the men standing there WOULD NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE United States MILITARY ALIVE. That one day they could be called upon to defend the Constitution with their lives, and possibly die for the flag they were holding. He told them this was the only moment they would ever be given to walk away.
No one stepped back.
No one let go.
No one walked away.
In that moment,
EVERY YOUNG MAN GAVE OUR NATION A BLANK CHECK WITH HIS LIFE.
Carlton Walker's experiences have deeply influenced his understanding of leadership, responsibility, and constitutional duty. He believes that the Constitution is not merely symbolic; it is a promise. This conviction drives his commitment to honoring those who sacrificed everything to defend it, as well as those who continue to make the ultimate sacrifice. He believes that leaders must step up and enforce the Constitution in South Carolina and our islands, in respect for those who have given their all. Carlton Walker lives by what he learned in the NAVY and that is: "Don't tell me how Rocky the Sea is, JUST BRING THE DAMN SHIP IN!" Below is why this means so much to Carlton Walker AND TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN.
In February 2023, Carlton's father, Jay Walker, played Taps on James Island to honor a Gullah Geechee U.S. Army veteran from Sol Legare Road who served in Vietnam. He performed this tribute alongside The American Legion Post 147 Color Guard, a role he has faithfully served for many years.
At the time, Carlton quietly believed this might be the last opportunity he would ever have to film my father playing Taps honoring our military's deceased, as his father was battling CLL blood cancer. Yet he still showed up, not for recognition, but out of duty, humility, and deep respect for this community.
This video honors a local African American soldier, his family, and the legacy of service that continues on our islands.
Please take a moment to watch.

Long before running for office, Carlton Walker was delivering The Post and Courier as a paper boy in Riverland Terrace on James Island, alongside his longtime friends Trey Nemeth and Jonathan Fabri. Carlton is pictured second from the left. Like many kids growing up on the islands, he learned responsibility early, waking up before school, knowing neighbors by name, and understanding that showing up on time mattered. It’s one of those small chapters that reminds us leadership doesn’t always begin in big moments, sometimes it starts on a bicycle, with a stack of newspapers, and a sense of pride in doing the job right.

Bruce Bannister is the South Carolina House Ways & Means Chairman, the man who controls the state’s purse strings.
Let’s fight for a future with 0% state income tax in South Carolina.
And we can do that with Carlton Walker in the State House, working alongside Ways & Means Chairman Bruce Bannister.
They both paid their dues selling CUTCO Cutlery — one of the toughest door-to-door jobs there is. That takes grit, hustle, and relentless follow-through.
Remember the line?
“Knock knock… I’ve got rope, leather, and knives — can I come in?”
And if you bought Cutco… do you still have all your fingers? 😄
Carlton didn’t just sell a little Cutco.
He sold over $700,000, earned a place in the CUTCO Hall of Fame — the equivalent of $2–3 million today — right here across James, Johns, Folly, Kiawah, and Seabrook Islands.
Back in 2001, County Councilwoman Jenny Costa Honeycutt and Raymond Owens of News 2 both sold Cutco — working under Carlton Walker's leadership as their manager. Years later, all continue serving this community in different ways. As their District Manager in 2001, he set a national recruiting record by hiring 283 local college students and training them in sales and life skills to pursue their goals. That number still stands as a Charleston District Office Record. They sold over $240,000 that summer.
That same work ethic now drives Carlton’s promise to voters:
Cut taxes. Bring our money home. Deliver real results.
✔️ Lower the tax burden
✔️ Bring your tax dollars back home to:
1️⃣ Fix Roads — Local Control
2️⃣ Stop Flooding — Clean Water & Smart Growth
3️⃣ Judicial Reform — Accountability & Due Process
With a strong Republican supermajority, Carlton Walker is ready to work with leadership — not against it — to deliver results for Folly Beach, Johns Island, James Island, Kiawah, and Seabrook.
🔗 Learn more about Chairman Bruce Bannister by clicking this link below.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=0103409079
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When Carlton Walker entered real estate in 2012, he did what any hardworking businessman would do — he learned everything he could. He took every house-flipping class available. What he discovered troubled him. The system was not built to help families; it was built to exploit them. Investors were trained to target people in crisis — divorce, disease, disaster, debt, or death. When homeowners could not pass inspection or did not have money for repairs, they were often pressured into selling for pennies on the dollar, only to watch months later as those same homes were renovated and resold for tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars more.
Carlton could not operate that way. He was raised to believe that a man’s word matters and that integrity means doing right when no one is watching. His grandfather, Mr. Cross, taught him a lesson he carried into every part of his life:
“You always play by the rules no matter how long it takes — especially when you think you’re losing — because eventually, you will win.”
That lesson shaped his decisions. Carlton refused to profit from someone else’s worst moment, even when taking advantage would have been easier or more lucrative.
Rather than using investor money to buy homes and flip them for personal profit, Carlton reimagined how the system could work. Traditionally, hard-money lending was used to fund house flippers — not homeowners. Carlton flipped that model on its head. He convinced investors to lend to the homeowner instead of the flipper, allowing families to repair their own homes and qualify for a traditional sale.
Carlton then served only as the licensed contractor, completing the necessary repairs to bring the property up to inspection standards. Once the work was done, the home could be sold on the open market, where fair competition — not desperation — determined the price. This approach allowed homeowners to capture the true value of their property, instead of losing it to investors looking for a bargain.
By shifting the capital to the homeowner and keeping himself in the role of builder rather than buyer, Carlton removed exploitation from the process and replaced it with opportunity for the homeowners.
The results were measurable — and life-changing. One homeowner with a property valued at $160,000 before repairs sold for $209,500 after just $16,800 in work, returning more than $32,000 that would have otherwise been lost to a flipper.
On the Beach, an elderly homeowner was told her structurally damaged property was worth approximately $950,000 as-is by all other local real estate companies. Instead of pressuring her to sell cheap, Carlton helped secure nearly $280,000 in repair funding to stabilize the structure and fully renovate the home. That investment allowed the property to be sold properly on the open market, where competitive bidding ultimately drove the final price to $2.1 million — returning nearly $870,000 in value to the homeowner.
Rather than being taken advantage of during a vulnerable time, she was protected — and able to walk away with the full value of an asset she had instead of a house flipper getting this money.
What began as one man refusing to exploit people grew into something larger. Today, many real estate companies now offer programs that pay for repairs upfront and are reimbursed at closing — a model that was uncommon before this approach proved successful. The industry did not change through regulation or mandates. It changed because someone demonstrated that doing the right thing could also work.
Carlton Walker helped change the real estate industry by proving that homeowners did not have to lose in order for business to succeed.
For those who know the names of Carlton’s two businesses, they were never chosen for branding or marketing. They were chosen as reminders of how people should be treated. One reflects the Golden Rule — treat others the way you want to be treated. The other reflects an even deeper belief — that WE LOVE our neighbors.
Those names were not slogans. They were standards. They guided how Carlton did business, how he made decisions, and how he treated people — especially during moments when families were vulnerable and needed someone they could trust.
Those values were tested in 2015, when an EF-2 tornado tore through Johns Island, causing the most severe damage along Sonny Boy Lane. Homes were destroyed, families were displaced, and lives were turned upside down.
After Carlton finished rebuilding one of the homes on Sonny Boy Lane, the homeowner told him, “I knew you were out there somewhere to fix my home the correct way.”
It wasn’t said during the job — it was said after the work was done. A reflection of trust earned, not promised. Because in moments of disaster, honest craftsmanship, accountability, and character matter most.
From first grade at Stiles Point Elementary on James Island to decades of working, building, and serving across the Five Islands, Carlton Walker’s life has been rooted in this community. These islands are not just where he lives — they are where he learned responsibility, hard work, and what it means to stand up for your neighbors.
If elected, Carlton vows to be the hardest-working South Carolina House member this district has ever had — bringing creativity, persistence, and common sense to change what is broken and protect those who are most vulnerable.
When decisions are being made about our roads, our flooding, and our broken judicial system, you will never have to wonder where he stands. Carlton Walker will stand with the people — fighting to turn what is wrong into what is right, and leaving this district stronger than he found it.
CARLTON SUPPORTS MEDICAL FREEDOM, DO YOU? Carlton had the privilege of standing at a press conference with South Carolina House members and advocates from around the country, speaking up for those who suffer silently — OUR SENIORS, CANCER PATIENTS, VETERANS AND THOSE IN HOSPICE — INCLUDING HIS OWN FAMILY.
This issue is deeply personal to Carlton. His sister, battling cancer, was forced to turn to the black market for medical cannabis just to ease her pain in her final days — risking her safety and dignity because the law gave her no legal option. Carlton watched her suffer, and he’ll never forget the injustice of it.
Now, his father — a proud veteran still serving his community even as he battles cancer himself — faces the same reality. The same broken system that failed Carlton’s sister continues to fail thousands of South Carolinians every day.
Carlton spoke that day for his sister, for his father, and for every family who has watched a loved one suffer needlessly. Medical cannabis isn’t about politics — it’s about compassion. It’s about giving people the choice to find comfort and dignity in their hardest moments, without fear or shame.
Carlton will fight to make sure no one else’s sister, no one else’s father, has to endure what his family has endured. He is committed to building a South Carolina where humanity comes before hypocrisy, and where we honor the dignity of every life.

This picture was taken in May 2009, at the beautiful Angel Oak Tree in District 115 on Johns Island. Carlton made the heartfelt decision to take his grandmother out of Hospice Care after her medications had been stopped, knowing that this would likely lead to her death within days. His choice was motivated by love and a desire to give her a chance at life. This photo was taken just after he made t

Carlton's decision as her Healthcare Power of Attorney allowed his grandmother to spend another 3 precious months of life outside of hospice, surrounded by her family. He stands firm in his commitment to prioritize affordable healthcare for our seniors, veterans, and patients, choosing compassion over profits in the healthcare system. This picture was taken at Carlton's longtime best friend's roof

This is the last family picture taken during our summer vacation in 2012 at our Family Farm, which the Walker family has owned since the 1960s. Carlton SUPPORTS OUR FARMERS on our islands. This was taken just before Carlton and his family faced the heartbreaking loss of his sister to cancer on James Island later that same year. It’s essential for us to come together to bring the best national canc

Carlton spray-painted our Folly Beach Boat Memorial for his sister on February 9, 2013, her 33rd birthday, without her.

Watching his little sister take her last breath after cancer is something Carlton will carry forever. Losing someone younger isn’t the natural order of life. After she passed, he spray-painted her name on an old boat at Folly Beach, just grief and somewhere to put the pain. That loss changed him. No family should watch a loved one suffer needlessly. If something eases pain and gives dignity, gover

Elizabeth's Friends Honored her, too.
“Victory Through Persistence”
Your Voice for
I’m Carlton Walker — raised on the five islands of James, Johns, Folly, Kiawah, and Seabrook. My family has lived in SC since before the American Revolution. I’m a fourth-generation U.S. veteran and the descendant of a Revolutionary War fighter from 1776 who helped secure the very freedoms we still defend today.
Well, we HAVE LOST some of those FREEDOMS TODAY — and I’m here to FIGHT to RESTORE THEM for TOMORROW!
I’ve spent my life serving and working for the people of these islands — restoring homes, rebuilding neighborhoods, and helping local families.
From my first job while at James Island High School as a maintenanceman at the Folly Beach County Park, to serving in the U.S. Navy on the Flight Deck of the USS WASP, bussing tables at Bohicket Marina between Kiawah and Seabrook, to working Maintenance with Fred Holland Realty on Folly, and I’ve always worked with my hands and for my neighbors.
While studying at the College of Charleston as a Theater major with set design and screenwriting, I sold over $700,000 of Cutco knives, learning early the value of hard work, discipline, and connecting with people.
After the Navy and College, I built my career here at home as a licensed contractor, now leading restoration and projects across all five islands and the lowcountry.
I’m running because I love this place, and I believe in responsible growth that preserves what makes each of our islands special — our trees, our waterways, our history, and our community. I still remember when it took an hour and a half just to get from Fort Johnson Road to downtown Charleston during morning traffic on Harbor View Road — and we’re still facing those same problems today.
That’s why I’m fighting for:
Because our home deserves more than slogans — it deserves results, rooted in experience and love for this community.
I’m running for South Carolina House District 115 to bring accountability, transparency, and common sense back to state government — and to make sure the voices of our 5 islands are finally heard in Columbia.
South Carolina’s roads are outdated and mismanaged. SCDOT owns 66% of our roads, or 41,000 miles out of 60,000 miles leaving local governments powerless to fix local problems. I was always taught in CUTCO if you want to be succesful, find someone who is where you want to be, find out what they did and do it. Well, Florida has a better road plan than SC. I am the only candidate that has actual experience building and resurfacing roads in this race.
I’ll fight to:
Our waterways define who we are — from the creeks where we crab to the ocean where our kids swim. But aging septic tanks, poor planning, and overdevelopment are polluting them.
I’ll work to:
South Carolina’s justice system is broken — run by insiders, fueled by money, and far removed from the people it’s supposed to serve.
It’s time to pull South Carolina out of the back woods and restore truth, transparency, and constitutional justice to our courts.
In South Carolina, you can have a jury trial for a $50 seat-belt ticket,
but not when the State — or your ex — is about to take away your child.
That’s not justice. That’s a constitutional failure.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees jury-trial rights under three separate amendments:
Yet South Carolina’s family courts routinely deny these rights.
A single politically connected judge can decide whether a parent loses their children, their income, or even their freedom — with no jury and no peers to ensure fairness.
Other states, including Texas and Georgia, already guarantee jury trials in family-court cases where a parent’s rights, liberty, or major financial obligations are at stake.
There is no reason South Carolina cannot do the same.
In 2011, our own Supreme Court acknowledged this injustice in DeMarco v. DeMarco, ruling that South Carolina’s family-court system violated the Constitution by jailing parents without the option of a jury or due process protections.
More than a decade later, nothing has changed.
I will introduce legislation to guarantee jury trials in family court whenever:
No one should lose their child, their freedom, or their future without the voice of the people in the room.
Justice must once again mean “by the people, for the people.”
Children need both parents — not just one chosen by the court.
When both able, willing and fit parents stay involved, children and communities thrive.
Research proves that children with both parents involved are:
Equal Shared Parenting is not partisan — it’s common sense and compassion.
I will make it the law in South Carolina so every child has the right to love and be loved by both parents.
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is emotional child abuse — when one parent manipulates a child to reject the other.
It causes lifelong trauma and destroys family bonds.
I will introduce legislation to:
South Carolina will no longer lag behind the rest of the nation — we will lead in protecting children from emotional harm.
Private Guardians ad Litem charge $85 up to $400 per hour and profit from family conflict.
That’s not justice — that’s exploitation.
I will:
Families deserve fairness — not financial ruin.
The federal Title IV-D program pays states bonuses for every dollar collected in child support.
That means South Carolina profits from broken families and putting one parent on child support
I will:
Families are not a revenue stream. Justice should not be for sale.
Those who sexually exploit or traffic children commit an act beyond forgiveness.
I will fight to make South Carolina the toughest state in America on crimes against children by:
Children deserve justice that is swift, certain, and strong.
Right now, lawyers select the judges who later rule on their cases.
That’s a conflict of interest that has corrupted our justice system from the top down.
The Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC) is dominated by lawyer-legislators who control who becomes a judge — and those judges later hear cases from the same lawyers who appointed them.
I will fight to:
While Rep. Spencer Wetmore was in office, her husband was appointed as Judge on Folly Beach. Her and other lawyer-legislators fight to keep the current insider system, I stand with the people to give the power back to the people.
Judges should serve justice, not the profession that appoints them.
From jury trials to shared parenting, from Title IV-D reform to JMSC accountability, this is about one simple truth: returning power to the people.
When we restore transparency, we restore trust.
When we protect families, we strengthen South Carolina.
When we defend children, we secure our future.
It’s time to end insider control, end conflict for profit, and bring South Carolina out of the back woods — into an era of fairness, family, and freedom.
As a U.S. Navy veteran, I know what service means. I’ll fight to make sure every veteran and senior in South Carolina has access to affordable housing by ending property tax, healthcare, and the respect they’ve earned.
From Kiawah and Seabrook's multimillion-dollar homes to Johns Island’s farmland, James Island's old school feel, the sand of Folly Beach, we share one community, one coast, and one destiny.
It’s time we fix our DANG ROADS, clean our waters, reform our courts, and protect our way of life.
Victory Through Persistence starts with you.
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South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and Carlton Walker at the Governor’s Mansion following the State of the State Address 2025.

Carlton and his father, Jay Walker, are at the James Island Yacht Club, where the Walker family has been members since 1974.

Two Local Charleston guys, years ago.


Carlton with the Latin Exchange Club

Carlton with a bunch ov Veterans!
“This isn’t politics — it’s personal.
After I stopped a judge from being promoted in 2024, that judge retaliated by taking away my right to see my daughter. It’s been over three years.
Rep. Pace called for his recusal by affidavit.
Rep. Gil Gatch called the actions ‘unjust,’ ‘stupid,’ and ‘insane.’
The system protected the judge — not my family.
That’s why judicial reform isn’t a slogan to me.
It’s a mission born from heartbreak and injustice.”

Father’s Day 2015: After the tragic loss of the Charleston 9, Carlton Walker carried his daughter to the top of the Ravenel Bridge, teaching her that racism is wrong and that love and unity are stronger than hate. It was a powerful moment of healing and a lesson in hope, courage, and compassion — values Carlton continues to carry into his service and leadership today.

Father’s Day – June 21, 2015: Thousands gathered beneath and upon the Ravenel Bridge in Charleston to stand united against the racist hatred that took the lives of the Emanuel Nine, nine innocent people who opened their church doors in love and faith. Carlton Walker was among them, carrying his young daughter to the top of the bridge to teach her that racism is wrong and that love, courage, and u

Combat Operations in Somalia 1993 with General Powell.

The Black History Banquet at the Citadel.

A picture speaks a thousand words.
When you need help, it doesn’t matter what color your skin is.
Children aren’t born with hate — they’re taught it. On that Father’s Day in 2015, I made sure my daughter understood that what happened in Charleston was wrong, and that love, compassion, and unity must always be stronger than racism and division.

Carlton Walker's #1 motivation - FOR his daughter and Our Children's future!




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