Staff Writer

Boyd Brown is seeking the nomination for the District 41 seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. He will face Annie?McDaniel in the June 10 Democratic Primary.

Brown, who is employed by the Dennis Corporation as a business development manager, was born and raised in Winnsboro. He is the son of Fairfield County Councilman David Brown and his wife Melinda. The candidate is an honor graduate of Richard Winn Academy and a graduate of the University of South Carolina.

The candidate believes he received a lot of valuable insight when he traveled South Carolina with former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tommy Moore as a personal assistant and when he worked for United States Rep. John Spratt.

“I’m running for the House, because I?have seen first hand the struggles our state faces,” he said.

According to Brown, some of the important issues that will face the next District 41 Representative are economic development, education, Lake Wateree and healthcare.

Economic development, Brown has said, tops his list of issues of concern. The economic development contributions to the County of Brown’s grandfather, Walter B. Brown, are memorialized in the Walter Brown Industrial?parks.

“Recruiting jobs is something that my family (father and grandfather) has been doing for more than half of a century for the people of Fairfield County,” the candidate said. “Being able to recruit industry to our district is an essential quality a state representative must possess.

Since Fairfield County is high on the list of county unemployment rates, Brown will make economic development his top priority as a legislator.

“Being the son of a thirty - year educator, I believe in the saying, ‘Let the teachers teach,” Brown said. “Why not let the classroom be the teacher’s own environment? Why must they be on the same page at the same time?”

If he is elected to the House, Brown promises to be an active supporter of the public education system in South Carolina.

He also supports raising the state tax on cigarettes to help in the effort to bring better healthcare to the state.