Joel Sawyer
Joel Sawyer
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The bill in its current form does a lot less to address what businesses from across the state have told us. The workers' compensation system is broken and this doesn't do nearly enough.
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The way the bill was gutted in committee today means achieving significant savings is far less likely. With the changes in this bill, it does a lot more to protect the interests of personal injury lawyers and a lot less to protect the interest of small businesses and injured workers.
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That's great news. The governor welcomes his support. We hope and, ultimately, believe it's indicative of the level of support Gov. Sanford will receive from the larger business community.
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It's no surprise that trial lawyers in the Senate who are lining their own pockets on the backs of South Carolina's businesses would want to delay much-needed reform of a broken workers' compensation system.
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We believe she's leading the department in the right direction. She's helping lead Sanford's efforts to change the workers' comp system and helped more property insurance companies take up business on the coast.
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We're always open at looking at ways to make health insurance more affordable for small business owners. But the governor has long been on the record as being against any kind of tax increase unless there is a corresponding tax decrease.
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In Congress, Gov. Sanford had a record of opposing providing social services to illegal aliens.
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It's something they are going to address internally to make sure it doesn't happen again, and we're going to continue working hard to try to bring this project to South Carolina.
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It's statutory. And we asked city and county governmental agencies to comply.
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It's certainly not something we'd support. The governor has been talking for the better part of five years about restructuring government to make it more accountable to the executive branch. This runs completely counter to accountability in government.
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At the same time, taxpayers should be outraged that the Senate is spending almost a billion dollars more than what was being spent last year - and not a dime of new money is going to be returned to the hardworking people of this state.
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They both believe very strongly that preferential treatment should never be a factor when enforcing the law. The director has communicated that to (the) Highway Patrol very clearly at the governor's request.
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With less than 30 charter schools, we don't believe that they are having the kind of impact on the overall picture that they could be having.
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We're very pleased the House and Senate are moving forward on this. This bill is incredibly important to our state's ability to preserve and protect large tracts of land.