SC Election Watch
is grateful for the following South Carolina political and policy professionals
for serving as members of our blog team to provide readers with the best
in news, analysis, opinion and more about the 2008 elections in the Palmetto
State:
Phil
Bailey is executive
director of the S.C. Senate Democratic Caucus. He lives in Columbia.
Rep.
Nathan Ballentine,
R-Columbia, first was elected
to the S.C. House of Representatives in 2004. A Columbia mortgage professional,
he is running for re-election.
Sen.
Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, first was elected
to the S.C. Senate in 2004. Bryant, who manages a family pharmacy and
supply company, is seeking re-election
to Senate District 3 in Anderson County.
Colleen
Condon, a member
of Charleston County Council, is a family lawyer in Charleston. A delegate
to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, she is running
for re-election.
Tony
Denny of Lexington, a former executive director of the S.C. Republican
Party, is principal
with Denny Public Affairs. He is a delegate
to the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Joe
Erwin, co-founder
and president of Erwin-Penland, one of the largest marketing firms
in the Southeast, served as chairman
of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2003 to 2007. A delegate
to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Erwin lives in Greenville.
Chip
Felkel of Greenvill is CEO
and senior strategist with The Felkel Group, a business and political
consulting group that offers the The
RAP Index as a tool to target advocates.
Robert
E. Freer is president,
founder and CEO of the Free Enterprise Foundation. He also is a
professor
with The Citadel School of Business Administration. Freer, who lives
in Charleston, has served four times as assistant general counsel to
the Republican National Convention and is a co-founder of the Republican
National Lawyers Association.
Sen.
Phil Leventis,
D-Sumter, is a businessman
and pilot who is running for his ninth
term in the S.C. Senate. A retired S.C. Air National Guard brigadier
general and decorated fighter pilot, Leventis was the Democratic candidate
for lieutenant governor in 2002.
Kevin
S. Mertens, chair
of the Greenville County Democratic Party, is a private investment manager
who spent 12 years on Wall Street. He lives in Greenville.
Rep.
Vida Miller, D-Pawleys Island, is a member
of the S.C. House of Representatives. First elected in 1996, she is
running for re-election
in District 108, which stretches from northern Charleston County through
Georgetown County.
Matt
Moore of Columbia is executive
director of the South Carolina Club for Growth. He is a former deputy
political director at the Republican Governors Association (RGA) and
past deputy field director for the Georgia Republican Party.
Phil
Noble is president
of the South Carolina New Democrats, an innovative reform group founded
by former Gov. Richard Riley. Noble runs an Internet
company in Charleston and was the founder of the Palmetto Project
and One Laptop Per Child/SC. He lives in Charleston.
Graham
Osteen is co-president of Osteen Publishing Company and a columnist
for The (Sumter) Item.
Rep.
James Smith,
D-Columbia, this year returned to South Carolina after a year-long military
deployment to Afghanistan. Smith, a Columbia lawyer, is former
S.C. House minority leader. He is running for re-election.
SC Election Watch
provides readers with news, analysis and opinion about what's happening
in presidential, congressional and state elections in 2008 in the Palmetto
State.
SC Election Watch
is a project of SC
Statehouse Report, the Palmetto State's leading weekly policy and
politics forecast.
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Carolina Association for Justice, a non-profit, non-partisan, professional
association dedicated to advancing the rights of individuals and small
businesses in the civil and criminal justice system in South Carolina.
