January 28, 2015
Columbia, SC – On Tuesday January 20th, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the state’s unified voice of business, honored legislators who had a perfect score on […]
January 23, 2015
At the Statehouse this week the major focus was on finding additional money to repair South Carolina’s deteriorating roads. The issue was advanced when Governor Nikki […]
January 21, 2015
Tommy Pope has been a little sick but is still working hard! Ethics has passed the Judiciary! Also, the Governor’s State of the State is tonight.
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.