Joel Sawyer
Joel Sawyer
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In Congress, Gov. Sanford had a record of opposing providing social services to illegal aliens.
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It strikes the appropriate balance by allowing local school districts to retain some flexibility in the starting date while also addressing the needs of the tourism industry.
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That would certainly be an enormous step in the right direction in terms of fiscal responsibility.
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Our local agencies have done a good job of stretching dollars. Obviously, this is going to help.
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The bill in its current form does a lot less to address what businesses from across the state have told us. The workers' compensation system is broken and this doesn't do nearly enough.
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No public-private partnership should ever surrender or outsource security at our ports to a foreign entity.
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This bill continues to change in the legislative process and he will make a determination once it reaches the governor.
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It's certainly not something we'd support. The governor has been talking for the better part of five years about restructuring government to make it more accountable to the executive branch. This runs completely counter to accountability in government.
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Based on that information, we determined it was a 'pass through' to hire a specific individual to a particular job. The fact that being the son of a senator entitles you to a state position is complete counter to what we've been working for.
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The way the bill was gutted in committee today means achieving significant savings is far less likely. With the changes in this bill, it does a lot more to protect the interests of personal injury lawyers and a lot less to protect the interest of small businesses and injured workers.
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At the same time, taxpayers should be outraged that the Senate is spending almost a billion dollars more than what was being spent last year - and not a dime of new money is going to be returned to the hardworking people of this state.
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It's something they are going to address internally to make sure it doesn't happen again, and we're going to continue working hard to try to bring this project to South Carolina.
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That's going to be one of our priorities going into this session.
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This is good-old boy budgeting. The fact that being a son of a senator entitles you to a state position is completely counter to what this administration stands for.