May 31, 2016
Roads Bill Passage, Budget Update, & College Savings Plan The final week of the legislative session is upon us, and with most of the House’s major work […]
May 27, 2016
May 25, 2016
House Passes Partial Road Funding Bill Amends legislation to include DOT reform (Columbia, SC) – House Speaker Jay Lucas (District 65-Darlington) issued the following statement […]
Getting Political with Jonah Steppe (NHS)
Meet Tommy
His father was a sheriff, his mother was a school teacher and Tommy Pope was destined to continue their careers in public service. After graduating from Rock Hill High School, Tommy pursued a degree in Business Management at the University of South Carolina. As a freshman, Tommy began working at the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) as a “phone boy” — literally, the boy who answered the phones. Throughout his undergraduate years, in addition to his phone boy duties, Tommy ran the blood hounds, cut down marijuana fields and apprehended criminals. By the time he graduated from Carolina in 1984, he had “blue lights in his blood" and soon became a full time agent at SLED.