Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

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.