South Carolina lawmakers debate state borrowing and reforms
An AP mailed survey of 61 of 170 General Assembly members shows 36 percent favor reforms in funding new buildings while over 57 percent oppose a pay as you go plan. Gov Riley vetoed 22 million in projects last session, with most vetoes still under review as lawmakers return. Rep Nunnery and Rep Kohn warn against growing debt amid cuts and higher rates.
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Associated Press
General Assembly
Sheila Allee
Columbia
South Carolina
Grady Patterson Jr
Patterson
Ernest Nunnery
House
Archie Hardy
R-Richland
Lawmakers discuss state borrowing limits and long term capital plans
Rep Parker Evatt urges restraint while noting urgent needs in corrections and mental health. Rep Dill Blackwell warns against debt as easily as credit card debt. A plan would cap borrowing at about 5.5 percent of prior year’s budget with emergency overrides, amid 469.4 million in bonds outstanding at end of 1981 and majority public support for limits.
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R-Richland
Dill Blackwell
Greenville
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Associated Press
Senator Seeks Clemson Signs for Home of the Tigers
State Sen. T Ed Garrison plans to file a General Assembly resolution to congratulate Clemson University and its football team the Tigers He also seeks eight welcome signs on four interstates to label South Carolina as Home of the Number One Tigers and a commemorative sign at I 85 and Clemson Boulevard near Tiger paws.
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T. Ed Garrison
D—Anderson
General Assembly
Clemson University
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Anderson County
South Carolina
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Perjury Trial Begins Today in Federal Case
In Columbia AP: Martha Jenks Mims faces a federal perjury trial for allegedly failing to list assets including a North Carolina ski resort property. An all-woman jury was chosen and opening arguments were delayed to this morning.
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Columbia
Myrtle Beach
Martha Jenks Mims
Subcommittee Cuts South Carolina Reserve Fund 1 Percent
A Ways and Means subcommittee approved lowering the constitutional reserve fund from 5 percent to 4 percent. The panel accepted two compromises to a proposed state spending limits package and plans to send it to the full House early in the 1982 session.
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