August 20, 2014
*PLEASE NOTE: Rep Pope was given the date of September 9th which he mentions in the video; in reviewing the calendar for the event, it will actually be […]
June 20, 2014
Tommy talks about the Budget, what happened with the Ethics Bill, and plans for the fall.
June 9, 2014
The final week of the legislative session – sine die week or “without days” – is always a flurry of activity as legislators and senators scramble […]
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.