Newly-elected Senator and former gubernatorial Chief-of-Staff Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) has yet to cast his first vote in the State Senate, but he’s already shaking up the status quo by demanding that the State Ports Authority get off its ass and sell a long-since shuttered port facility in the town of Port Royal.
It’s not just that Davis (and his constituents) want the SPA to sell the property, the S.C. General Assembly actually ordered them to do so … two years ago.
From the Beaufort Gazette:
It’s been two years since the deadline passed for the S.C. Ports Authority to sell the shuttered Port of Port Royal. That’s too long, said freshman state Sen. Tom Davis. A new approach is needed to find a buyer and spur development of the prime parcel …
“Simply listing a property for sale and then sitting back and waiting for someone to come forward isn’t working,”Davis said.
Of course in all fairness to the Ports Authority, they’ve been pretty busy lately, what with running off their biggest customer and everything.
Next to Kommisar Jim Rex’s Ministry of Failure and Non-Competition, the SPA is the most arrogant, worst-performing, biggest joke of an agency in state government.
We hope Tom Davis continues to give ‘em hell …
By Philip Branton December 24, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Hopefully ol’ TOM is not a “ONE TRICK PONY”…!!! Maybe he will sing a song to BOB Peeler and Waste Management, MRR, and DHEC about the fleecing of taxpayers concerning our STATE’s Landfills…!!! A cat covers up its CRAP…….!!! Tom ..we are better than CATS …aren’t we????? http://www.startech.net and the plasma converters do WHAT for our state..??????
By Ya Ya Sister December 24, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I wouldn’t cross her for a million bucks.
By SPA - good luck Sen. Davis December 24, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I think Gov. Sanford has been trying to get the SPA to sell that small acreage for what now -like the last 7 years?? You would think with the Governor appointing the SPA board members, it would be a snap of the fingers to sell that property -especially during the biggest real estate boom in the last 50 years. Too bad it didn’t happen.
The SPA owns around 1000 acres on Daniel Island that is currently sitting idle – and several terminals in Charleston that are poorly utilized.
No real benefits to the taxpayers will occur with the current SPA management in place. We have to assume Gov. Sanford approves of the SPA’s management performance or else he would do something about it.
You can only talk reform for so long.
By Port City Fats December 26, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Maybe Tom should have acted more strongly when he was an SPA Board member or seek the advice of the current Board member from Beaufort.
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