The snobbish Republican Nikki Haley has always been against jobs in certain areas. Why? It depends on just who can offer her kickbacks - political favors such as donations, lavish parties, etc.
Georgetown isn't in the business of wooing a glitz-and-glamour minded Haley. Georgetown is interested in seeing its port dredged and putting people back to work while creating new, long-term jobs at the same time.
Linked here is the backstory about the fight to dredge our port. A column published in the local newspaper received a lot of attention at the state capital.
And today, it seems some headway is being made in getting out port dredged.
A bill that would allow the proposed 1-cent sales tax for Georgetown County to be used for port dredging is now being discussed by the S.C. General Assembly.
The bill, proposed by Sen. Yancey McGill, D-Kingstree, is now in a finance subcommittee, according to Sen. Ray Cleary, (R-Murrells Inlet.)
The bill was drafted as a suggestion by Georgetown County officials and has also received Cleary’s approval.
Another bill dealing with port dredging is now in a judiciary subcommittee, Cleary said.
McGill’s bill has been added to that as an amendment, Cleary said.
The people in Georgetown have been ignored quite a lot. Specific people. Working people. Union people. Nikki Haley could be a responsible, respectable and prominent governor if she'd only push for dredge funds for Georgetown as much as she pushes for companies that open their pocketbooks to her campaign coffers.
A one-cent sales tax is a good idea in a room where no specific, concrete ideas were offered. Is it ideal? No. But, we have to get out port dredged.
And it's nice to see some elected officials in our county do what a governor can't: Look past partisanship and create jobs in the whole state.
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