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Garmon’s $100 Million Business: When “Caring for the Elderly” Becomes a Cash Cow
While South Carolina families are drowning under the rising cost of healthcare, Johnnie Garmon has been cashing in. The District 115 candidate made his fortune — reportedly over $100 million — in the senior-care industry, building wealth from a system that bleeds families dry as they struggle to care for aging parents and grandparents.
Now Garmon wants voters to believe his top priority is “Elderly Care” and “Taking Care of the Caregivers.” What he doesn’t mention is that he’s still a paid consultant in the same industry, advising the very companies that profit off the elderly and the dying.
If that sounds like a conflict of interest, it’s because it is. You can’t make millions off a broken healthcare system and then run for office claiming you’ll fix it — while you’re still on the payroll. That’s not compassion. That’s self-interest dressed up as public service.
Follow the Money
Garmon’s campaign message sounds noble — but look at who stands to benefit. Every new regulation, every “caregiver incentive,” and every “industry support measure” he promotes would directly enrich the same healthcare networks and assisted-living companies he’s tied to.
Meanwhile, ordinary families are forced to choose between paying for medicine or rent, and caregivers across the Lowcountry are scraping by on wages. That’s the real cost of Garmon’s “experience.”
District 115 doesn’t need another millionaire insider with ties to the healthcare lobby. It needs a representative who understands what it means to live paycheck to paycheck — someone who fights for working families, not the boardrooms that profit from them.
A Platform Built on Profit, Not Place
This is Garmon’s number one issue for District 115 — “Protecting Our Seniors and Caregivers.” But let’s be honest: this isn’t about our islands, it’s about his industry. Garmon made over $100 million in senior care, built his business in the Rock Hill area near the Charlotte market, and only moved here 18 months ago, as he said on WTMA 1250 AM.
Now he’s running on the same system that made him rich — still consulting for it — while claiming it’s his top priority for James, Johns, Folly, Kiawah, and Seabrook. That’s not public service. That’s self-promotion disguised as compassion.
The Real Faces of Rising Costs
While families across the Lowcountry sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay their next medical bill, Johnnie Garmon built a $100 million fortune in the very industry driving those costs higher. Now, he’s made that same industry his number one campaign issue for District 115 — calling it “Protecting Our Seniors and Caregivers.”
But for the families who feel crushed by premiums, prescription prices, and long-term care costs, that message rings hollow. How can we trust someone who profited from the system that’s breaking us to be the one to fix it?