February 12, 2015
Several more bills are coming out including the fetal pain bill and more ethics bills; Tommy signed up on both road bills because we need to […]
February 6, 2015
This week the work of the Republicans in the House of Representatives was described by House Republican Majority Leader Bruce Bannister as a “sprint in the […]
February 4, 2015
It’s USC Day at the State House which is always fun! Various Judicial Elections occurred today (one was a very hot topic!). And on to infrastructure! […]
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.