March 6, 2015
The week was busy- ethics has moved to the Senate, progress was made on the local government fund, and budget week is next week. Tommy is […]
February 27, 2015
Education, Ethics Reform & Judicial Update The House adjourned Wednesday due to inclement weather, shaving a legislative day from the calendar, but not before we moved […]
February 26, 2015
Tommy talks about the snow day, talking with the Governor about the roads, ethics being consolidated for the Senate, and Chief Justice Toal.
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.