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February/March 2013 Volume 5, Issue 1

Who Said Election Season’s Over? Not us, that’s for sure!

In case you’ve been living under a rock since that wonderful election last Novem-ber, here’s a recap:

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint resigned

Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott to fill DeMint’s seat

A special election to fill Scott’s seat takes place this year That gives us a chance to reclaim Democratic representation of our 1st Congres-sional District (which includes the lower half of our Dorchester County from Ridge-ville on down). We know that thousands in our county were ready, willing and able to serve the Democratic Party in last year’s general election, and we know that you’ll be more than glad to play a part of this special election, too! We have three declared Democratic candidates, and on March 19th we get to se-lect which one will be our party’s nominee. If neither of them takes a majority of the vote that day, there’ll be a runoff be-tween the top two on April 2. The final election, when our final Democratic candidate takes on the Republican nominee, is scheduled for May 7. If you enjoyed President Obama’s victory in November … if you liked working the phones and knocking the doors and talking to voters … if you took pride in yourself for your priceless contribution to the future of our country … then you’ll definitely have the chance to relive the personal satisfaction very, very soon! Keep in touch with our county’s Democratic Party to meet our special candidates for this special election, and to learn how you can play a part in our country’s his-tory once again!

INCLUDED IN

THIS EDITION Our Candidates—page 2

Their “candidates”—page 3

Voter ID Goals—page 4

Are you affected by Voter ID? We

could tell you—page 4

More Voter ID Info—page 5

Obamacare: what’s new for 2014—

page 7

DCDP: Moving Forward—page 7

Clyburn introduces Voter Empower-

ment Act—page 9

A message from Bobbie Rose—page

10

Black History Month: Harvey Gantt

and Integration—page 12

Local Dems at the Inauguration—

page 13

Fantasy Football League —page 14

Calendar of Events—page 14

Editor’s Note: The candidate advertisements included in this issue do not indicate or imply any endorsement or favoritism. The Dorchester County Democratic Party can not endorse any Democratic candidate during a primary election.

Democrats are surely familiar with Ben Frasier, who’s run for office in almost every election year since 1972.

He was the declared winner of the De-mocratic Primary for this same office in 2010, his first primary win.

In that year, his campaign stances in-cluded lower taxes on wealth, restric-tion upon labor unions, and re-consideration of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

This time around, his website says, “We need change. We need jobs. “

He declares Wadmalaw Island in Charleston County to be his home.

Known as the “perennial candidate,” Frasier sat out for 2012, but filed for this special election on the last day.

www.elizabethcolbertbusch.com

www.facebook.com/ColbertBuschForCongress

Elizabeth Colbert-Busch While her brother may have the na-tional name, Colbert-Busch is quite well-known in South Carolina. And for her role in big business, not the big stage. A Lowcountry native, she got her degree

in intermodal transportation and logis-

tics management from the College of

Charleston. She’s served on the Alumni

Advisory Board for her alma mater’s

business college. She interned with the

State Port Authority, and played major

roles in international trade at the Port

of Charleston. She was a board member

of the Port’s Propeller Club, chair of the

Port’s Maritime Association, and a foun-

der of the Charleston Women in Inter-

national Trade organization. And Col-

bert-Busch later became Director of

Development for Clemson University’s

Restoration Institute in North Charles-

ton, where she works today.

She promises to bring her progressive

experience to Congress. (She’ll be at

our March breakfast meeting, too!)

Ben Frasier

www.martinskellyforcongress.com

www.facebook.com/MartinSkellyForCongress

Martin Skelly “The future of our country is at stake,” Martin Skelly said after filing to run for the 1st Congressional District. The business owner’s comment pertains directly to the economy.

“We live in the greatest country in the world, but our dysfunctional Congress is standing in the way of our economy,” Skelly said. “After witnessing this chaotic Con-gress – and hearing about too many busi-nesses that won’t invest in our economy

because of the dysfunction, I decided it’s time to do my part.

“The people of South Carolina don’t want to sit back while the chaos in Congress pushes us closer to an economic meltdown – they want a sensible path forward to get our spending under control, achieve energy independence and create good jobs.”

A Virginia native, Skelly will speak at our February breakfast meeting.

OUR CANDIDATES PRIMARY ELECTION

MARCH 19

RUNOFF (if necessary)

APRIL 2

In March, we Democrats will get to

select our party’s nominee for the

upcoming special election from a pool of

three candidates! Read on to

learn more about them.

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Republican Campaign Tricks! As the campaigns for this special election develop, it looks like some local Republicans are already slinging mud — but at their own party’s candidates.

Yes, some from the Lowcountry have created Twitter accounts mocking the GOP candidates they don’t favor, and with sarcastic humor. (And, be forewarned, sometimes vulgar humor, too.)

Admittedly not Mark Sanford, @notmarksanford attacks the Appala-chian Trailer for once saying he would only serve three terms in Con-gress only to wind up trying for his fourth in this special election. Another isn’t Chip Limehouse, but @ChipsHorse (“I’m not the guy, I’m the horse”). Go figure.

John Kuhn isn’t the sole target of @freerakuhn (go on — say that whole term phonetically). Instead, this mocker who claims “I’m rabid and you’ll find me on a road in the First District” declares that attacking Sanford is an equal purpose of this Twitter account.

And another isn’t Elizabeth Moffly, but “Moffly’s Wine Glass.” @Moffly-sWine attacks the GOP candidate personally (“Booze is my fuel”) and politically (“I know how to spend other people’s money.”).

If these farcical Twitter accounts don’t indicate internal disturbance within local Republicans sympathizers, consider the first source for some of this information: the blog site of local Republican and conser-vative activist Earl Capps!

And on to other goofy tricks being tried by the GOP in this election. As recently reported by Patch, a Peter McCoy supporter bought rights to a website address that uses an opponent’s name. That’s right — www.chiplimehouse.com automatically forwarded you to McCoy’s website. (It’s been pulled, though, since getting media attention.)

Now, if they run campaigns this cheap and tacky, how do you think they’d do in office?

State Rep. Andy Patrick—a New York native who lives in Hilton Head, Patrick worked for the Secret Service under Bush-Cheney

John Kuhn — former state senator who may already have violated FEC laws by begging for donations without required disclaiming statements

State Sen. Larry Grooms—primary candidate for governor in the 2010 race, but dropped out early, and then said he was thinking about running for Congress in 2010, but dropped out early….

Mark Sanford — former governor, former congressman, honorary Ambassador to Argentina

State Rep. Chip Limehouse—this is the guy whose name was used in a website address that automatically brought you to a competi-tor’s site

State Rep. Peter McCoy—this is the guy whose website you were brought to when you typed in his competitor’s name

Elizabeth Moffly — former Charleston County School Board mem-

ber who also ran for this same office in 2010

Teddy Turner—high school teacher, former yacht builder, son of network-owning dad who only gave him a job in Russia as a cam-era man

Jeff King—Goose Creek business owner and huge Tim Scott fan, one campaign goal of his is “ensuring our freedom to practice relig-ion” (as if it were at risk?)

Ray Nash — former sheriff of Dorchester County who stepped away from the office in 2008 after being questioned for hiring his brother-in-law for a $65,000 county job and for giving his cam-paign manager a county job, too.

Curtis Bostic — former Charleston County Councilman whose cam-paign website (stopspending.com!) includes pictures of him with Tim Scott and uses the word “patriot” about 18 million times

Keith Blanford—Sullivan’s Island developer who already ran for this office twice under the Libertarian Party

Jonathan Hoffman—former border security director under the Bush Administration who now operates a conservative political website

Tim Larkin—works for a Dept. of Defense contractor, and says he hopes to continue Tim Scott’s “momentum of positive growth”

Shawn Pinkston—attorney in Charleston who until recently worked for Republican politicians in Kentucky

Ric Bryant—an engineer from Hanahan whose claim to fame is finishing in 7,537th place in last year’s Disney World marathon

What Republicans Accomplished in the last 112th Session of the House of Representatives:

NOTHING Under its Republican majority for 2011 and 2012, the U.S. House:

Passed the fewest number of bills in over a century

Tried to pointlessly appeal the Affordable Care Act 33 times

Received only a 9 percent approval rating from U.S. voters

Was rated less popular than head lice and cockroaches in another recent poll

Withheld job creation for four months by only focusing on bills on the debt ceiling

Shut down the Federal Aviation Administration for a few weeks, and because they tried to include anti-union restrictions in its budget bill

Cost our country its credit rating, which was lowered due to con-gressional inactivity and ignoring true economic issues

Blocked aid to citizens who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy

Proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare in its budget bill

Blocked other budget bills only because they want to extend tax cuts for the wealthy

Failed to enact appropriations bills on time or even in separate parts

Filibustered over 100 times, and against bills such as the Paycheck Fairness Act, the Elder Abuse Victims Act, the Wounded Veteran Job Security Act, the Veterans Retraining Act, the Homeless Vet-erans Reintegration Program and the Disabled Veterans Home Improvement Act.

That’s why we need less Republicans in the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives! Be sure to participate in this year’s special election so that our 113th Congress might actually get something done!

16 (candidates)

What do you get?

Another day older

And deeper in debt

Meet the GOP Candidates

Your Elected Officers and the County Executive Committee agreed at the last meeting that our Party Goals for 2013 are:

Voter ID – make sure all Democratic voters have a Voter ID by the end of 2013. BY MARCH 19th!

Candidate Recruitment – make sure we have Democrats running in all key races

Precinct Leadership -- make sure we have strong leaders in each of our 72 precincts.

Because of the Special Election for Congressional District 1 (primary on March 19th, and General Election on May 7th), our effort to make sure ALL Democratic voters have a valid Voter ID has been accelerated – and I need your help to make this hap-pen! Voter ID is law since January 1st. At the county level we need to make sure the Republicans do not get what they want – to stop our citizens from voting! We need to make sure that every per-son who wants to vote has access to and gets a Voter ID card if they do not have a driver’s license. We MUST MAKE SURE every-one in our respective precincts has a valid Voter ID – we need your help to support a major effort to find every Democratic voter that needs an ID in your precinct and get them that ID so

they can vote! We have a great head start as Rob Groce, our outstanding Public Relations Chair, was able to get the list of registered voters in our county who do not currently have a Voter ID! We will take this list and break it down by Democratic voters, and delete all people who have moved out of our County. We then will give the remaining list to each Precinct Team – I suspect a list of 20-40 people, and just call them. Ask them if they have gotten a valid Voter ID, and if not, what we can do to help them get one! If we do this together in teams, it should not be hard to get some more volunteers for our County Party, and makes sure that every Democratic voter has a valid Voter ID and VOTES in this critical special election. We have GREAT candidates for Con-gressional District 1, and we want to make sure the winner of the Democratic Primary on March 19th goes on to win the Gen-eral Election on May 9th! PLEASE contact me or your Precinct Leader if you can help in this noble cause! Thanks— Richard Hayes, Chair

Voter ID Goal Needs Your Support Now!

Are you affected by the Voter ID law? Just ask — we could tell you!

Dorchester Democrats have a list of all registered voters in our county who may be affected by the new Voter ID law. We obtained a listing of all the voters who our Dept. of Motor Vehicles says has a cancelled license, expired license, who have no record of any driver’s license or state ID, and/or whose names were not found on Vital Statistics or DMV records. If you think your name might be on the list of affected voters, send a message to dordems@gmail.com—we’ll let you know!

Affected Dorchester County Voters, By Congressional District

1st Cong. Dist 6th Cong. Dist.

DMV license cancelled 3,546 233

DMV license expired 1,177 257

No match on DMV 783 112

Not found on Vital Records/DMV 332 21

On that funky “Voter ID” law that was entered, removed and then re-entered, the voters in our state have sort of both lost and won. While we still need a photo ID in order to vote, we can now use more types of ID. And voters without one (but who still have a voter registration card) can still vote after signing a “reasonable impediment” statement at the polling place. These new rules will be in effect for our upcoming special election!

MORE VOTER ID INFO

Lulu Colbert-Busch for Congress

Persevered through demanding personal and family tragedies Twenty years of successful international sales and marketing Proven problem-solver and job creator in technical growth industry Known for working with opposition to achieve common goals Vision and plan for us to lead technology, innovation and job creation for our state

Tuesday, March 19 in the 1st Congressional District

Lulu Colbert-Busch Representing the Best of South Carolina

A LIFETIME PREPARING FOR TOUGH CHALLENGES:

PAID FOR BY COLBERT-BUSCH FOR CONGRESS

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By Debbie Lodge, who really cares about Health Care President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23rd, 2010. The law is designed to expand health coverage and implement health insurance reforms. It will be fully implemented in 2014, but many aspects of the law are already in effect in South Caro-lina with more to come this year. South Carolina DHHS’s website states that much of 2013 will be de-voted to preparing for final implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 and that it has 41 ACA related projects. Here are some features that will be implemented in South Carolina this year:

Primary care doctors who treat Medicaid patients will get a pay raise receiving 100% or more than what is currently paid for Medi-care patients. The increase over what is currently paid is fully funded by the Federal government.

Medicare Part D members will get discounts on prescriptions (52.9% off name-brand drugs; 21% off generics) while in the “donut hole.”

More money will be given to state programs for preventative ser-vices.

A national pilot program has been established to encourage pro-viders to better coordinate the quality of patient care through payment bundling. This means doctors treating Medicare patients will be paid a flat rate to treat an illness rather than charging for each service and medical test.

Modified Adjusted Gross Income (the MAGI method) will prevent more children from missing out on Medicaid and CHIP. Since the Affordable Care Act doesn’t allow for “disregards and deductions” such as childcare and work related expenses, the ACA requires states to increase their income thresholds to compensate. For further explanation see http://schealthcarevoices.org

ACA provides two more years of Federal funding to continue cov-erage for children not eligible for Medicaid (CHIP).

Health care providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacists, and other health care providers) as well as those who make and distribute medical supplies, must tell you in writing if they will profit from a drug or treatment they recommend to you.

Medicare tax increase : The wealthy (defined as individuals earn-ing over $200,000 or couples earning over $250,000) will have a 0.9% tax increase but only on the amount they earn above the threshold level. Unearned income on these same individuals will have a 3.8% assessment. These additional taxes will shore up the Medicaid Trust Fund.

Medical Device tax: A new 2.3% will be levied on medical devices such as defibrillators, pacemakers, artificial joints and others but hearing aids and corrective lenses are exempt.

Flexible Spending Accounts which allow employees to set aside pre-taxed wages for medical expenses not covered by their insurance will now have a cap of $2,500 per year. The amount will increase each year based on changes in cost of living.

By Debbie “Baby Steps” Mortellaro

Yes, the 2012 elections are over but we still have a lot of work to do! We want to keep our presence in Dorchester County. Because of the new voter ID bill, much work needs to be done to register voters. We need to identify candidates to run in all races in 2014. But we can’t wait until next year to start

our work. We must start now and we need your help. We need volun-teers! Please

consider pledging your time. Join one of our active committees as we move forward. These committees include: Candidate Recruitment, Ways and Means/Fundraising, Precinct Reorgani-zation, and Public Relations. We need your financial help! Please consider making a monthly contribution to the DCDP. No amount is too small. Whether you pledge $3, $5, $10, or

more per month, we welcome all con-tributions. Monthly payments can be made by mailing your check (made out to the DCDP) to: DCDP, P.O. Box 2211, Sum-merville, SC 29484, or can be paid at our monthly Executive Committee Meeting or our monthly breakfast. Please contact 1st Vice Chair Ethel Campbell, 2nd Vice Chair Dot Brown, or DCDP Secretary Deb Mortellaro for more information about joining a com-mittee or making a monthly financial contribution. Just send them an email at: dordems@gmail.com and they will contact you with more information.

DCDP:

Moving Forward

to 2014!

Rolling Out Affordable Care in South Carolina What’s New for 2014

Bringing

common sense

back to

Congress

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At a recent press conference, Rep. Jim Clyburn described dramatic improve-ments needed in the election process, and told how a new bill, the Voter Empower-ment Act of 2013, would provide those enhancements if passed.

Clyburn said its goals are to improve voter accessibility and the integrity and accountabil-ity of the election system.

Included in the bill are requirements that elec-tronic voting machines produce paper receipts, allowance of voter registration on election days, improved poll access for disabled voters, and creation of a national voter hotline.

The Act also calls for criminalization of voter intimidation practices and illegalization of de-ceptive tactics that intentionally mislead voters about their rights.

This national address to voting rights stems from consistent changes to states’ election laws in the last four years that appear polar-ized, Clyburn said.

“They’re aimed very directly at voting patterns favored by minority voters,” Clyburn said.

For example, a purge of voter registration re-cords following the 2008 election resulted in a five-percent drop of Hispanic voters nation-wide, and seven percent of African-American voters were removed from the rosters.

Restrictions on voters’ rights took a dramatic surge in the last two years in particular.

Since 2011, 41 states including South Carolina introduced 180 bills that would restrict voting rights, such as by voter ID requirements, lim-ited registration, and reduction in early voting periods. In less than two years, 25 of the 180 proposals as well as two executive orders were passed in 19 states.

These 19 states account for 231 electoral votes in presidential elections – 86 percent of the number needed to win.

Other vote-compromising efforts were done directly by state election and voter registration offices, as well.

The eight declared “battleground states” of the 2012 presidential race, for example, had collec-tively dropped over half a million registered voters from their records since 2008.

In response to these potentially-polarized ac-tions, Clyburn’s Voter Empowerment Act also requires that election officials be demonstrably non-partisan, as well, and not be allowed to play any role in political campaigns.

In 2011, South Carolina state legislature passed law requiring citizens to present state-issued photo identification in order to vote, affecting over 250,000 registered voters in the state.

Following a challenge from the U.S. Dept. of Justice in federal court, the Voter ID law re-mains valid, but now accepts other identifica-

tion, and also allows provisional ballots to vot-ers with “reasonable impediment” to producing such ID at the polls. Other bills calling for restrictions in early voting and accommodations to disabled voters were introduced to South Carolina’s legislature this month, as well. A similar national Voter Empowerment Act was introduced last year. Referred to a House com-mittee in May 2012, it was never brought to vote.

Clyburn introduces Voter Empowerment Act

Political satirist and comedian Bill Maher will be perform-ing in South Carolina, and the state Democratic Party is in on this one. Beginning at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Apr. 6, the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” will perform at the Koger Cen-ter for the Arts in Columbia. SCDP is hosting a pre-show party as a fundraiser, too, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. that same evening in the fa-cility’s Donor Room. The donation amount of $250 to at-tend the party also includes a ticket for premier seating at the show. Tickets to this catered event are limited, and can be pur-chased online on a first-come/first-serve basis. Persons interested in attending both the party and show can contact SCDP at (803) 799-7798 with any questions. Regular tickets that do not include admission to SCDP’s pre-show event range from $48 to $73, and can be pur-chased from the Koger Center’s website. Maher’s HBO series starts its 11th season this year.

SCDP hosting party before Bill Maher show in April

As of Jan. 28, I have with-drawn my candidacy for the 1st Congressional District Spe-cial Election. This was espe-cially difficult as I have been blessed with the most gener-ous and most dedicated vol-unteers and supporters any candidate could hope for. I cannot thank you enough for your unwavering support! I will be speaking with other candidates in our party and will offer my support to the candidate with the values, beliefs and commit-ment to the people, that are the most closely aligned with my own and those of my supporters. There are many reasons why I have made this incredibly difficult decision. Chief among them is an obligation to respond to opportu-nities in the private sector as well as the political field. I have been campaigning almost constantly since February 2012. While I don’t regret one minute of that campaign, I feel I should now spend my time working to improve our district, our state and our country in other ways. Together, we are able to give voters a choice in the 2012 election and I am very proud of what we accomplished! We are very fortu-nate this time around to have choices within the Democratic Party. I am looking forward to a Democratic Primary that is respectful, substantive and produces a candidate who can win this seat for the people of the 1st District. Let’s all participate in the process and work hard to elect a voice of reason to speak for us in Washington. Thank you again,

Bobbie Rose

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Fifty years ago this month, Clemson Univer-sity was ordered by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to admit its first African-American student, Harvey Gantt of Charles-ton. In 1954, in the historical Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court had ruled unanimously that segrega-tion in education was unconstitutional. However, not much had changed in the South by 1963. In 1962 a lone black stu-dent, James Meredith, was ordered admit-ted to the University of Mississippi. A riot occurred on campus that led President John F. Kennedy to send troops to support the U.S. Marshalls he had sent to support Mere-dith. Two people were killed. For the l962-63 school year, soldiers accompanied Mere-dith wherever he went at Ole Miss. Mere-dith was the only black student then at the University of Mississippi. In Alabama in 1962, George C. Wallace was elected to his first term as governor. In his inaugural address in January of 1963 Wal-lace declared “segregation now, segrega-tion tomorrow, segregation forever.” Wal-lace would play an important role in Ameri-can politics in the 1960’s. As did other Southern states, South Caro-lina had opposed court-ordered integration, and the state opposed Harvey Gantt’s appli-cation for admission to Clemson in 1962. At that time, Ernest F. Hollings was completing his term as governor. He had been elected

in 1958 and South Carolina governors were then limited to one term. In his last address to the legislature he said, “As we meet, South Carolina is running out of courts. If and when every legal remedy has been exhausted, this General Assembly must make clear South Carolina’s choice – a gov-ernment of laws rather than a government of men.” He urged that law and order pre-vail. The economic and political leadership of South Carolina generally agreed. Harvey Gantt enrolled at Clemson in February 1963 without incident. He later graduated with honors in architecture, and then earned a master’s degree at MIT.

Gantt settled in Charlotte and entered local politics and was elected the first black mayor of Charlotte. Of course, he was a Democrat. He ran twice for the U.S. Senate against Republican Jesse Helms, and lost both times in heated campaigns that showed the race issue was by no means dead in the South. By May of 1965, all of South Carolina public colleges had agreed to admit qualified stu-dents regardless of race. Hollings was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1966 and served for the next 38 years. He always remained a Democrat, although his fellow senator Strom Thurmond became a Republican in 1964.

In 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which led to the registration of thou-sands of black voters. In 1958 about 58,000 African Americans were registered to vote in South Carolina; by 1970 that number had increased to 220,000. Things were not always peaceful in South Carolina, as the “Orangeburg Massacre” in 1968, where three young black men were killed and 28 men and women were wounded, would show. But unlike some neighboring states, South Carolina did gen-erally maintain law and order. While black voting increased in South Carolina, many white voters moved toward the Republican Party. In 1964 South Carolina was one of six states that supported Barry Goldwater. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the time he is re-ported to have said that in signing the Vot-ing Rights Act, he was giving the South to the Republican Party for a long time. Johnson was proven right. The South, once a solid De-mocratic bastion has become the stronghold of the Re-publican Party. In South Carolina, Republicans control the state legislature and the governorship. Race is not the only reason Republicans have been successful in the South, but it is cer-tainly an important issue still.

Harvey Gantt and Integration By Dr. David Rison

Gantt completing registration at Clemson

A historic landmark at Clem-son honors Gantt’s enrolment.

February has been recognized as Black History Month since 1976. In its first

observance that year, Americans were encouraged to “seize the opportunity to

honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every

area of endeavor throughout our history.”

The Lowcountry has been home to many historical points and events in African

-American history, too, such as the story (below) of Harvey Gantt.

Local Democrats at the Inauguration

Many from our county and state attended the Presidential Inau-guration, including our own Ethel Campbell, 1st Vice Chair of DCDP. Ethel got there early in the morning (as you can see from her photo of the capitol building on the left), got to see the president on his way to the event (right), and had a great view of the Inaugural Address, too

Susan Smith, chair of South Carolina Democratic Women, attended with Berkeley County party chair and SCDP 2nd Vice Chair Melissa Watson (left in photo above). As you can see in the photo below, though, Susan didn’t have as great a view as our Ethel did!

Those of us who didn’t go to the Inauguration that weekend still had things to do here. For example, Fran Town-send of the DD2 School Board (standing in right photo, which was taken by Debbie Mortellaro) spoke at our monthly breakfast on Jan. 19th.

Ethel was joined by family (see left) at the National Mall to witness the inau-guration.

Calendar of Events

February February 11

Executive Committee Meeting 7 p.m. at the County Code Building

500 N Main St (Directly behind the County Council Building when you enter the parking lot from N Cedar)

February 14

Valentine’s Day Won’t you be ours?

February 16

Breakfast Meeting 9 a.m. at Ryan’s

1314 N Main St in Summerville $8 for breakfast buffet and coffee

Special Guest: Martin Skelly

February 16 Last day to register to vote if you want

to participate in the March primary!

February 18 Presidents Day!

March

March 11 Executive Committee Meeting

7 p.m. at the County Code Building 500 N Main St

March 16

Breakfast Meeting 9 a.m. at Ryan’s

1314 N Main St in Summerville $8 for breakfast buffet and coffee

Special Guest: Elizabeth Colbert-Busch

March 19 Primary Election for

the 1st Congressional District Race 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at your local polling place

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Regular Season Final Standings Lowcountry League

Jake’s NFL Greats 9-5 Rison’s Raiders 6-8 Turney’s Tornadoes 6-8 Rising Star 6-8

Palmetto Pack

Mamasez 8-6 Rob’s Roosters 7-7 Ziggy’s Patriots 7-7 GCharp62 6-8

Sandlapper Section

WINNING 11-3 Mort’s Killer Kats 8-6

NO MORE MR. NICE GUY 6-8 Stomp’n Like Suh 4-10

Final Standings After Playoffs

1) Jake’s NFL Greats 2) WINNING 3) Ziggy’s Patriots 4) Mort’s Killer Kats 5) Mamasez 6) Rob’s Roosters 7) GCharp82 8) Rison’s Raiders 9) NO MORE MR. NICE GUY 10) Rising Star 11) Turney’s Tornadoes 12) Stomp’n Like Suh