Yes, I commend the time OUT and I will applaud Tom’s voice in the PRESS since NO ONE else has the GUTz !!

Tom, needs to pull the sheets back our state BED and let the citizens see the truth…!! They can handle it !!

He needs to start calling BOTH sides out …!!

Citizens are freak-a-zoid on BOTH parties ..!! Tom, needs to DIAGRAM in flow chart form with names and DATES on the shenanigans going on within each PARTY..!?!

All over the STATE….!!!

He needs to call the RAIL boyz …out!! (Coal vs Nuclear)
He needs to call the TRASH boyz …out!! (H, B &B) (Plasma ENERGY)
He needs to call the Democrats …out!! (CASINOs..? ..TERM LIMITS)
He needs to call the RINOs …..out !! (Line ITEM VETO)
He needs to call the Myrtle boyz …out!! (Biker Bucks)
He needs to call the Jim REX & boyz …out!! (School CHOICE)
He needs to grab someone over at Agriculture by the THROAT and get them a ticket to check out the Algae Bio-Diesel coming on line and find some SC Farmers who want to produce ENERGY……..!! (Fist POUNDZ!!)

He needs to give a colonoscopy to ALL Utility CEO’s and ask if they know what fell at HOG BACK Mtn due to WIND…?? Have them down to Beaufort or FOLLY to stake out the FIRST Coastal Windfarm…!!!

……and by ALL means……when SANFORD speaks….TOM needs to scream !!

Either for …or against !!

BUT HE NEEDS TO GET ALL CITIZENS…..ATTENTION !!!

Judging from the editorial below, it seems that Davis has jumped on your pet project.

Charleston Post and Courier
Timeout on dumping permits
Monday, March 2, 2009

Nine states think South Carolina is a great place to dump their waste — hundreds of thousands of tons of waste each year. South Carolina’s Legislature should act to change that.

The solution that is being considered in the state Senate is a simple one that should work: Call a “timeout” so that no new dumps can be approved this calendar year.

By the end of 2009, the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control, which regulates landfills, is scheduled to have rewritten its regulations. Officials readily admit the rules are flawed.

As the regulations exist, companies can receive DHEC permission to build new dumps that the state doesn’t need — including megadumps that could cover 5,000 acres with waste piled up some 300 feet.

They can get away with this because of flaws in the way DHEC assesses dumping needs. The winners in that situation are states like New York, New Jersey and North Carolina that ship us their waste.

Already, South Carolina has twice its needed solid waste landfill capacity, and if proposed megadumps in Williamsburg and Marlboro Counties are built, that capacity will be three times the state’s needs.

Tom Davis of Beaufort, one of four senators pushing for the moratorium, calls it “predatory dumping” and says allowing megadumps is “mortgaging the state’s future … You just need to see one of those dumps. They are gargantuan, and they smell bad. … The moratorium would simply delay further permitting activity until the admittedly broken regulations are fixed.”

That might appear to be an easy sell. It doesn’t draw any lines in the sand — only gives DHEC time to fix what’s broken. It gives poor, rural counties, which are often targeted for dumps, a chance to avoid being a “pay toilet,” as Sen. Phil Leventis of Sumter puts it.

The waste industry, however, has money and muscle. Sen. Davis says that the array of lobbyists who have been hired to protect the companies’ interests is “the most powerful I have ever seen.”

Our legislators should stand up to those pressures and vote for the moratorium.

DHEC wants to grant permission for landfills based on whether there is a need for them. That’s a better idea than allowing huge tracts of South Carolina to be dedicated to out-of-state garbage.

The de facto training program in politics we have in place requiring people to “climb the ladder” from one elected office to another doesn’t seem to be serving us too well, in my opinion. Few are the “professional elective office holders” produced through said de facto training program that don’t end up losing their integrity and/or core values over time.

This is not a tacit endorsement of Sen. Davis however it appears Sen. Davis is a well-organized, diligent, intelligent, well-spoken person whose ideas and values seem to comport well with the principles espoused (although often not upheld) by conservative Republicans. That his tenure in elected office is short shouldn’t matter.

Well, ol’ TOM needz to get busy!!

Let’s review what he has stood UP for….?

CORRUPTION…?? Hmm, where is his VOICE in Lower Richland…
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/701867.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=9910970#Comments_Container

ENERGY from WIND..?? Hmm.. he has been a CASPER on this blowing subject. He needs to be ASK if he KNOWS where HOGBACK Mtn is and if it has WIND..?? When is the last time he took a walk on the beach and felt….WHAT..!?!

Energy from TRASH…?? Hmm…. Has he stolen someone’s “CANNON” and focused it on DHEC ?? Cherokee County and Harvey Peeler..??

ENERGY from SC FARMERS…?? Does he know the Diesel FUEL budgets for OUR entire state’s school bus fleet…or public transit ?!? Where does that money GO …?? OUT OF STATE ..?? Does he know ANYTHING about ALGAE Bio-Diesel..?? Does the PUBLIC Care if he KNOWS…??

OBAMA ..WANTS ….CHANGE !! SO…just what type of CHANGE is he going to deliver for Obama…!?! …or SC ?? …or Republicans..??