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Most of the retirees coming to SC are politically/fiscally conservative but socially liberal and that liberalism is the biggest changes they are making in SC.
Very true. A big chunk of them fall into the ideologically libertarian camp.
Mayor Steve Benjamin and Columbia GOP State Rep. Kirkman Finlay are at each other’s throats again. Benjamin says it’s insulting that Charleston and Greenville got their full funding requests for projects while Columbia got less than half the money it requested for its convention center expansion. Finlay is saying Columbia failed to sell the committee on its project as a business proposal while the other cities came prepared. It’s in The Post and Courier.
Mayor Steve Benjamin and Columbia GOP State Rep. Kirkman Finlay are at each other’s throats again. Benjamin says it’s insulting that Charleston and Greenville got their full funding requests for projects while Columbia got less than half the money it requested for its convention center expansion. Finlay is saying Columbia failed to sell the committee on its project as a business proposal while the other cities came prepared. It’s in The Post and Courier.
Mayor Steve Benjamin and Columbia GOP State Rep. Kirkman Finlay are at each other’s throats again. Benjamin says it’s insulting that Charleston and Greenville got their full funding requests for projects while Columbia got less than half the money it requested for its convention center expansion. Finlay is saying Columbia failed to sell the committee on its project as a business proposal while the other cities came prepared. It’s in The Post and Courier.
I don't buy what Finlay is saying at all. You can believe legislators from other cities went to bat for their hometowns because they knew the importance of the funding for those projects. Why is Finlay acting like he knows nothing about the desired expansion of the convention center and why it's important? Even Sumter got their full $15M for its opera house and there's no way in heck he can convince any reasonable person that the opera house getting its full funding request was justified but Columbia not getting the full $19M requested for the convention center expansion wasn't. Smh...
I don't buy what Finlay is saying at all. You can believe legislators from other cities went to bat for their hometowns because they knew the importance of the funding for those projects. Why is Finlay acting like he knows nothing about the desired expansion of the convention center and why it's important? Even Sumter got their full $15M for its opera house and there's no way in heck he can convince any reasonable person that the opera house getting its full funding request was justified but Columbia not getting the full $19M requested for the convention center expansion wasn't. Smh...
Crazy, right? Why does Sumter even have an opera house? I don't think South Carolina needs one, but if it did it should be in one of the major cities. It looks like it's a legacy that's been around for a while, but strange that it still exists in spite of Sumter not being a destination. Here it is if you're curious:
I wonder how much Finlay's obstinence is a product of his district. He covers Forest Acres, which is its own municipality and seems to feel a sense of independence from the city (just my observation). His district is entirely surrounded by Democratic house districts, which I'm sure adds pressure. Perhaps he's grandstanding to satisfy his base?
Crazy, right? Why does Sumter even have an opera house? I don't think South Carolina needs one, but if it did it should be in one of the major cities. It looks like it's a legacy that's been around for a while, but strange that it still exists in spite of Sumter not being a destination.
I think it might have been "a thing" back in the day!
Newberry also has an opera house that opened in 1881, Sumter's opened in 1893.
I'm sure at the end of the late 1800s/early 1900s many little towns in South Carolina might have built opera houses, many of which might no longer exist.
Abbeville (1904) and Marion (1892), also have opera houses in South Carolina that are still standing.
Crazy, right? Why does Sumter even have an opera house? I don't think South Carolina needs one, but if it did it should be in one of the major cities. It looks like it's a legacy that's been around for a while, but strange that it still exists in spite of Sumter not being a destination. Here it is if you're curious:
I wonder how much Finlay's obstinence is a product of his district. He covers Forest Acres, which is its own municipality and seems to feel a sense of independence from the city (just my observation). His district is entirely surrounded by Democratic house districts, which I'm sure adds pressure. Perhaps he's grandstanding to satisfy his base?
He's definitely pandering but it only hurts the region as a whole. And to think he's the offspring of one of the city's most respected and consequential mayors.
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