FILING CLOSES FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE OFFICES
FITSNews – March 31, 2008 – We’ll be updating this and providing analysis throughout the day, but here’s the list so far … minus Florence, S.C. of course, and a couple other places where they apparently don’t have e-mail or the Internet.
(Contested races in italics …)Â
S.C. SENATE
Senate District 1: Thomas Alexander (R, incumbent)
Senate District 2: Larry Martin (R, incumbent), Mac Martin (R)
Senate District 3: Kevin L. Bryant (R, incumbent), Marshall Meadors (D)
Senate District 4: Billy O’Dell (R, incumbent), Roger Odachowski (D), Leonardo Ortiz (D)
Senate District 5: Phil Shoopman (R)
Senate District 6: Mike Fair (R, incumbent)
Senate District 7: Ralph Anderson (D, Incumbent), Lillian Brock Flemming (D), Andrew Jones (D), Selden Peden (D), Roan Garcia-Quintana (R)
Senate District 8: David Thomas (R, incumbent)
Senate District 9: Danny Verdin (R, incumbent)
Senate District 11: Mike Gardner (R), Glenn Reese (D, incumbent)
Senate District 12: Scott Talley (R), Lee Bright (R), L.B. Watson (R)
Senate District 13: Max Hyde (R), Shane Martin (R), Jim Ritchie (R, incumbent), Jimmy Tobias (D)
Senate District 14: Harvey Peeler (R, incumbent)
Senate District 16: Mick Mulvaney (R), Mandy Powers Norrell (D)
Senate District 17: Leah Moody-Lawrence (D), Rep. Creighton Coleman (D), Michael Squirewell (D), Mark Bennett (R), Joanie Winters (R)
Senate District 18: Ronnie Cromer (R, incumbent), Michael Ray Ellisor (D)
Senate District 19: Vince Ford (D), John Scott (D)
Senate District 20: John Courson (R, incumbent)
Senate District 21: Darrell Jackson (D, incumbent), Wendy Brawley (D)
Senate District 22: Joel Lourie (D, incumbent)
Senate District 23: Jake Knotts (R, incumbent), Katrina Shealy (R), Mike Sturkie (R)
Senate District 24: Greg Ryberg (R, incumbent), Jason Whinghter (R)
Senate District 25: Shane Massey (R, incumbent), Travis Johnson (D), Greg Anderson (D)
Senate District 27: Vincent Sheheen (D, incumbent)
Senate Distict 28: Dick Elliott (D, incumbent), William McKown (R)
Senate District 32: Yancey McGill (D, incumbent), Laurie Alston (D), Ted Brown (D)
Senate District 33: Luke Rankin (R, incumbent), Liz Gilland (R), Jara Uzenda (D), Howard Bond (R)
Senate District 34: Ray Cleary (R, incumbent)
Senate District 45: Clementa Pinckney (D, incumbent)
Senate District 46: Catherine Ceips (R, incumbent), Tom Davis (R), Kit Fletcher (D)
S.C. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
House District 1: Bill Whitmire (R, incumbent)
House District 2: Bill Sandifer (R, incumbent), Ed Rumsey (R)
House District 3: B.R. Skelton (R, incumbent), Trey Whitehurst (R)
House District 4: Davey Hiott (R, incumbent)
House District 5: Phillip Owens (R, incumbent)
House District 6: Brian White (R, incumbent)
House District 7: Michael W. Gambrell (R, incumbent), Richard Kelly (D)
House District 8: Don C. Bowen (R, incumbent), Charles Griffin (D), Tom Dobbins (D)
House District 9: Michael D. Thompson (R, incumbent)
House District 10: Dan Cooper (R, incumbent)
House District 11: Paul Agnew (D, incumbent)
House District 12: Anne Parks (D, incumbent)
House District 13: Gene Pinson (R, incumbent)
House District 14: Mike Pitts (R, incumbent)
House District 15: Jeff Duncan (R, incumbent)
House District 16: Jason Culbertson (R), Mark Willis (R)
House District 17: Harry Cato (R, incumbent)
House District 18: Tommy Stringer (R), Pete Smith (R)
House District 19: Dwight Loftis (R, incumbent)
House District 20: Dan Hamilton (R)
House District 21: Bob Leach (R, incumbent), William Wylie (R)
House District 22: Gloria Haskins (R, incumbent), Wendy Nanney (R)
House District 23: Fletcher Smith (D, incumbent), Chandra Dillard (D), Justin Alexander (R)
House District 24: Bruce Bannister (R, incumbent)
House District 25: Karl Allen (D, incumbent), James “Rick” Freeman (R)
House District 26: Rex Rice (R, incumbent)
House District 27: Garry Smith (R, incumbent)
House District 28: Eric Bedingfield (R, incumbent), Jonathan Smith (D)
House District 29: Danny Stacy (R), Dennis Moss (D, incumbent)
House District 30: Bobby Beattie (R), Olin Phillips (D, incumbent)
House District 31: Harold Mitchell (D, incumbent), Raymond Russell (D)
House District 32: Derham Cole Jr. (R), Christina Jeffrey (R), Will Rothschild (D)
House District 33: Lanny Littlejohn (R, incumbent), Weldon Davis (D)
House District 34: Mike Forrester (R), Ken Roach (R), Ronnie Hart (D)
House District 35: Keith Kelly (R, incumbent), Roger Nutt (R)
House District 36: Rita Allison (R)
House District 37: Ralph Davenport (R, incumbent), Steve Parker (R), Eric Hayler (D)
House District 38: Joey Millwood (R), Bob Walker (R, incumbent), Mark Chambers (D)
House District 39: Marion Frye (R, incumbent), T. Hardee Horne (D)
House District 40: Walt McLeod (D, incumbent)Â
House District 41: Sean Shaeffner (R), Boyd Brown (D)
House District 42: Mike Anthony (D, incumbent)
House District 43: Greg Delleney (R, incumbent)
House District 44: Jimmy Neal (D, incumbent)
House District 45: Deborah Long (R), Bruce Miller (R), Dan Parsons (R), Tony Starnes (D), Fred Thomas (D), Donald Huffman (D)
House District 46: Gary Simrill (R, incumbent)Â
House District 47: Herb Kirsh (D, incumbent)Â
House District 48: Carl Gullick (R, incumbent), Kyle Boyd (R)
House District 49:Â Marvin Rogers (R)Â
House District 50: Grady Brown (D, incumbent)Â
House District 51: David Weeks (D, incumbent)Â
House District 52: Laurie Slade Funderburk (D, incumbent)
House District 53: Ted Vick (D, incumbent)
House District 54: Doug Jennings (D, incumbent)Â
House District 55: Jackie Hayes (D, incumbent)
House District 56: Denny Nielson (D, incumbent)
House District 57: Jim Battle (D, incumbent)
House District 58: Liston Barfield (R, incumbent), Fonzie Lewis (D)
House District 59: Terry Alexander (D, incumbent)
House District 60: Phil Lowe (R, incumbent), Geraldine Gamble (D)
House District 61: Lester Branham (D, incumbent)Â
House District 62: Robert Williams (D, incumbent)Â
House District 63: Kris Crawford (R, incumbent)Â
House District 64: Britton Pruitt (R), Cathy Harvin (D, incumbent)Â
House District 65: Jay Lucas (R, incumbent)Â
House District 66: Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D, incumbent)Â
House District 67: Murrell Smith (R, incumbent)
House District 68: Thad Viers (R, incumbent), Steven Neeves (R), Helen Smith (R)
House District 69: Ted Pitts (R, incumbent)
House District 70: Joe Neal (D- incumbent), Mary Barber Kirkland (D)
House District 71: Nathan Ballentine (R, incumbent)
House District 72: James Smith (D, incumbent)
House District 73: Chris Hart (D, incumbent) Joe Brown (D)
House District 74: J. Todd Rutherford (D, incumbent)
House District 75: Jim Harrison (R, incumbent), Tige Watts (D)
House District 76: Leon Howard (D, incumbent)
House District 77: Joe McEachern (D), John Rust (R), Drelton “D.J.†Carson (D), Michael Koska (R), Benjamin Byrd (D), Tony Lamm (R)
House District 78: Joan Brady (R, incumbent)
House District 79: Sheri Few (R), Anton Gunn (D), David Herndon (R), Tony Lamm (R)
House District 80: Jimmy Bales (D, incumbent), Stanley Robinson (D)
House District 81: Scott Singer (R), Brad Boni (R), Tom Young (R), John V. Kelly (R)
House District 82: Bill Clyburn (D, incumbent)
House District 83: Donald Smith (R, incumbent), Jim Whitehead (R), Judy Hamilton (D)Â
House District 84: Roland Smith (R, incumbent)Â
House District 85: Chip Huggins (R, incumbent), Jim Nelson (D)
House District 86: James Stewart (R, incumbent)
House District 87: Nikki Haley (R, incumbent), Edgar Gomez (D)
House District 88: Mac Toole (R, incumbent)
House District 89: Kenny Bingham (R, incumbent)
House District 90: Bakari Sellers (D, incumbent)Â
House District 91: Lonnie Hosey (D, incumbent)
House District 92: Joe Daning (R, incumbent)Â
House District 93: Harry Ott (D, incumbent)
House District 94: Hayward Hudson (R, incumbent), Jenny Horne (R)
House District 95: Jerry Govan (D, incumbent)Â
House District 96: Kit Spires (R, incumbent), Michael Miller (R)
House District 97: Patsy Knight (D, incumbent), George Bailey (R)
House District 98: Annette Young (R, Incumbent), Tara Bussajas (R), Jeff Young, (D)
House District 99:Â Jim Merrill (R, incumbent)Â
House District 100: David Umphlett (R, incumbent)Â
House District 101: Ken Kennedy (D, incumbent)Â
House District 102: Joe Jefferson (D, incumbent)Â
House District 103: Carl Anderson (D, incumbent)
House District 104: Tracy Edge (R, incumbent)
House District 105: Kevin Hardee (R), Randy Alford (R), George Hearn (R), Mark Bennett (R)
House District 106: Nelson Hardwick (R, incumbent)
House District 107: Alan Clemmons (R, incumbent)
House District 108: Jill Kelso (R), Vida Miller (D, incumbent)
House District 109: David Mack (D, incumbent), Steven Smith (R)
House District 110: Chip Limehouse (R, incumbent), Casey Fitts (R)
House District 111: Wendell G. Gilliard (D), Clay N. Middleton (D), Maurice G. Washington (D)
House District 112: Jim Bustos (R), Mike Sotille (R)
House District 113: Seth Whipper (D, incumbent)
House District 114: Bobby Harrell (R, incumbent)
House District 115: Wallace Scarborough (R, incumbent) Eugene Platt (D), Anne Peterson Hutto (D)
House District 116: Robert Brown (D, incumbent)
House District 117: Tim Scott (R), Wheeler Tillman (R), Bill Crosby (R)
House District 118: Bill Herbkersman (R, incumbent)
House District 119: Leon Stavrinakis (D, incumbent)
House District 120: Bill Bowers (D, incumbent)
House District 121: Kenneth Hodges (D, incumbent)
House District 122: Curtis Brantley (D, incumbent), Thayer Rivers (D), Libbie Henry-Green (D)
House District 123: Richard Chalk (R, incumbent) Starletta Hairston (R), Stu Rodman (R)
House District 124: Shannon Erickson (R, incumbent), Jim Brown Jr. (D)
By anonymous March 31, 2008 at 11:17 am
Sanford: State won’t comply with REAL ID
“Gov. Mark Sanford said today the state will not comply with the federal Department of Homeland Security’s standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs. The decision means S.C. residents could be subjected to extra security screenings when boarding airplanes or entering federal buildings.”
Governor Mark Sanford’s Letter
http://media.thestate.com/smedia/2008/03/31/11/sanford_Letter_re_real_id.source.prod_affiliate.74.pdf
DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE GOVERNOR, BY NON-COMPLIANCE WITH REAL ID WILL BE ATTRACTING CRIMINALS TO THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA!
By Silence Dogood March 31, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Anon, this is a joke right? How in the hell do you square that with the fact that A. no states are currenly complying with REAL ID and B. are you saying just by virtue of the fact that we are not doing our licenses in the manner proscribed by the federal government criminal will flock here to not have to have a D.L. from another state that has a different hollogram or enters their driver’s data into another data base et cetera?
By Jed Bartlet March 31, 2008 at 1:07 pm
SC Senate District 17:
Leah Moody-Lawrence, D
Rep. Creighton Coleman, D
Michael Squirewell, D
Mark Bennett, R
Joanie Winters, R
to replace Sen. Linda Short(D)…
By Earl March 31, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Something has to be missing. House Districts 41 (Chester & Fairfield) and 49 (York) are heavily-Democratic seats. I see GOP candidates for them but not Dems. Also, I don’t see Ronnie Cromer running for re-election to his Senate seat?
By Motoring Man March 31, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Leah Moody sans Lawrence.
By Big Daddy March 31, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Boyd Brown (D)
District 41
By G March 31, 2008 at 3:52 pm
This is really a huge joke. Wow.
The SC Dems couldn’t even get a formitabe candidate to run againist Graham? It is pretty bad when you have a US Senator running basically uncontested and something tells me it’s not due to his overwhelming level of support.
By What about Cromer? March 31, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Senate 18: Is Cromer not running again?
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' ... March 31, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Is George Hearn running to ensure help his wife’s third supreme court bid?
By Jed Bartlet March 31, 2008 at 7:31 pm
From the Newberry Observer
“Senator Ronnie Cromer (R) will face Democratic challenger Michael Ray Ellisor for the District 18 seat.”
By Leah April 11, 2008 at 10:43 am
hey thank you for the plug. My name is Leah Moody. My mother is remarried and her name is Moody-Lawerence. Thank you for the correction. MOODY for SENATE