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Two Candidates Emerge In Upstate SC Senate Race

WOULD-BE SENATORS HEADED TO APRIL 5 RUNOFF … Two candidates emerged from from a “Republican” primary election for a S.C. Senate seat in the rural Palmetto Upstate this week.  The seat became vacant in January upon the death of Billy O’Dell – a fiscally liberal former Democrat who had held the…

WOULD-BE SENATORS HEADED TO APRIL 5 RUNOFF …

Two candidates emerged from from a “Republican” primary election for a S.C. Senate seat in the rural Palmetto Upstate this week.  The seat became vacant in January upon the death of Billy O’Dell – a fiscally liberal former Democrat who had held the office since 1988.

S.C. Rep. Mike Gambrellalso a fiscal liberal – won 45.5 percent of the vote in the primary election, easily eclipsing the 31.9 percent received by Rockey Burgess, a town councilman from Williamston.

Greenwood attorney Tripp Padgett finished in third place with 14 percent of the vote – the vast majority of his total coming from his home county. Two other candidates finished in single digits.

Because no candidate received a majority of the votes in the special primary election, a runoff race between the top two finishers – Gambrell and Burgess – will be held in two weeks time (on April 5).  The winner of that contest will be the Senator-elect seeing as no Democrat chose to file for the post.

S.C. Senate District 4 (map here) includes parts of Abbeville, Anderson and Greenwood counties.  It is a heavily gerrymandered district that crosses multiple county borders to incorporate more heavily populated areas.

Only eight percent of registered voters in the district participated in the special primary election.

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4 comments

Alpha/Omega March 23, 2016 at 8:18 am

Someone needs to run against each incumbent and defeat all of them, from Washington, to the State Capitols, to town Halls all across the Country. The elected, professional, ruling class has screwed the pooch!

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Lone Ranger March 23, 2016 at 3:09 pm

Senators Bright, Verdin and Peeler had the guts to honor
patriots and Southern heritage by voting to KEEP the flag

And there are 20 House members with steadfast loyalty whom
Tea WILL support and about whom we can brag

Those patriot House members are Bedingfield, Burns, Chumley,
Corley, Delleney, Hardee, Hill, Johnson and Kennedy

Then Loftis—Moss (both D.C. and V.S.), Nanney, Putnam,
Simrill, Spires, Stringer, Taylor, Thaylor—and let’s see

White makes twenty and that is plenty of reason to get out
and vote this year and beyond that let us just say

Legislators’ names YOU DON’T SEE HERE…let us make it crystal
clear…need to be UNELECTED on election day !!!

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Southern Hate March 23, 2016 at 3:12 pm

The flag is down and will never be put back on the state house grounds again. Ha ha, you guys lost!

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Lone Ranger March 23, 2016 at 3:15 pm

southern hate thought her Section 8 was great and since she’s full of crap
She actually expects YOU to pay for her Obama phone and yep–her SNAP !!!

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