Charleston County has had a busy month.
It opened a long-planned recycling center and began construction on a new Rivers Avenue social services hub. County Council agreed to sell that infernal Naval Hospital and will soon unload nearly $50 million worth of downtown Charleston property, putting it back on the tax rolls.
Each of those accomplishments could be punctuated with the same word:
finally. Because most of those projects have been, at one point or another, monumental pains in the anteroom.
In January, council Chairman Elliott Summey said this was the year the county settled all family business. And despite an unscheduled pandemic, it did resolve several lingering issues.
mattered, i mean, vic rawl or lou rawls wasn t going to win. it s why the conspiracy theories from clyburn and others made zero sense from the beginning. are you telling me those voting machines weren t rigged like clyburn said with magnets and stuff like that. it is crazy. oh, boy. great panel today. ken blackburn blackwell, that is to say, steven hayes and erica payne, thank you all for joining us live. thank you. good to be with you. 26 minutes now after the top of the hour. let s go outside to brian and gretch. all right. steve, first, some disturbing news. straight ahead, we got deadly tornadoes, touched down in the midwest. steve, you re familiar with that. the incredible images are caught on camera and you re about to see them and then megan fox talking horses? and but, you know it s hard to sort of kick when you re laced up in something like that. [ speaking native language ]
this is a fairly safe senate seat for them, so i m just not sure who it is that s behind this. we haven t been able to find anyone that has, obviously, admitted to this and greene himself has told us that he s paid this filing fee with his own money. yeah. good that you mentioned that. i mean, republican jim demint pretty much has this seat sealed up which is probably why you guys really didn t cover this primary race on the democratic side, i m assuming. correct. so vic rawl, the guy that thought he was going to win because he never heard of this guy either. he wants, what, a recount, a reballot? well, we re going to find out precisely what he wants this afternoon when he meets with the democratic party s executive committee. there are a few options that the executive committee will be able to take after having heard vic rawl and perhaps alvin greene as well. vic rawl is trying to argue there was possibly some problems with the voting machines, electronic voting machines. is
all right. well, today, state democrats are going to be meeting to consider a protest from greene s opponent vic rawl, calling for a primary do-over. others in the state who are also complaining and saying that this was really obviously a mistake. but how do they prove it? that s the question. joining us now from columbia, south carolina, wayne washington, senior writer at the state, and explain to us, good to talk to you, how alvin greene seemed to come out of the blue. was your paper aware of him as a viable candidate, somebody you were watching before election night? we were not. in fact, i don t know of anyone who knew of alvin greene prior to the primary. we were focused on the races we thought would be competitive and the senate race did not seem to be one of those. so how does he, number one, get on the ballot, seems to be the big question. you have to pony up some money, 10,400 some dollars and this guy basically has no money? correct.