current events firegeezer on 25 Jun 2008 01:35 pm
Atten: South Carolinians ….
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE CONVENED AT NOON TODAY to begin a 3-day session to consider the governor’s vetos of bills passed during their regular session earlier this year.
They will be debating on 20 vetoes that Governor Mark Sanford issued over the past few weeks. Most of them have to do with giving reduced-tax incentives to encourage defined economic activities.
One of these is the bill to encourage more fire sprinkler installations in commercial buildings.
In what has to be the most ill-timed political stunts ever, he vetoed the bill just hours before the entire state took time to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Sofa Super Center fire that took the lives of nine Charleston firefighters.
The legislature is scheduled to take up this bill for override on Thursday. Any and all Firegeezer readers who live in South Carolina are urged to contact your Senator or Representative today and ask them to support this override vote. You don’t have time to put this off. Do it today. St. Florian will love you for it.
on 25 Jun 2008 at 11:53 pm 1.Scott Loftis said …
THANK YOU ALL!!! WE GOT IT DONE!
on 25 Jun 2008 at 11:56 pm 2.Scott Loftis said …
25 June 2008
House overrides Sanford on sprinkler bill
The House has unanimously overridden the governor’s veto of a bill that would give tax incentives to businesses and homeowners who install sprinkler systems.
The bill was inspired in part by the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters and the deaths of seven S.C. college students in a North Carolina beach house.
The House voted with no debate. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, moved to take the vote before lunch because the vote “wouldn’t take long.”
The measure now heads to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote there would make the bill law.
From The State (newspaper)