“We’re breathing a sigh of relief,” said Rep. Boyd Brown, who, along with Sen. Creighton Coleman, introduced the bills in January.
The State House of Representatives voted 39-25 earlier today to sustain Gov. Mark Sanford’s veto of House Bill 4431, a bill that would have created an independent finance committee to handle the budgeting process of the Fairfield County School District.
A motion to reconsider by the prevailing side led to the bill coming up again after the House broke for lunch. The second vote, 33-10, overturned the governor’s veto.
“This is exactly what the children and teachers in Fairfield County needed,” Brown said.
Meanwhile, the House voted 44-21 to override the governor’s veto of House Bill 4432, a companion piece to the Brown-Coleman bill, which expands the number of school board members from seven to nine by two appointed seats.
The Senate will consider both bills Wednesday afternoon.
“I’m ready to get this behind us so we can concentrate on doing what’s best for the kids in the schools,” Coleman said.
Those in opposition to the bills have indicated a challenge in the courts, now that the vetoes have been overridden.
“This is a disgrace,” said Earnest Yarborough, president of S.C. Citizens For Justice, a social and political activist group. “I guess now it goes to the judiciary and let them decide.”
Yarborough said his group has retained the services of a Columbia attorney and will file a lawsuit tomorrow.
What a tiresome argument. The matter at hand has nothing to do with the races or ethnicities of the school board members (except as they and their supporters make it) and everything to do with the facts and their behaviors.
The majority of the School Board members are pursuing an agenda that has nothing to do with the wellbeing of our children or the efficient and purposeful operation of our schools. Their agenda is clearly all about enriching themselves and increasing their own perceptions of personal power. They are all examples of the classic "big-fish in a little pond" syndrome - only as big fish, they're really no more than minnows (or perhaps some other variety of bottom feeders).
Three cheers for Sen. Coleman and Rep. Brown. It's about time (long overdue, actually) that some real action has been taken to relieve the burdens that the members of our School Board have been carrying. Their load has obviously been too heavy for too long.
The School Board can now sit back and relax and not even worry about putting on a pretext of civic duty. They're now free to act and behave any way they want without the burdensome need to even pretend that they care about the children and schools they all took oaths to nurture.
Hey, woodpecker44, lighten up! It looks like a win-win for everybody!
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Mr. Brown; "Outside the Blatt Building and outside of Richland County, the majority of people are in favor of it."
Now, I do not want to be harsh, but any fool should know better than to say this. Did he ask everyone in Fairfield County. O, that's right the majority of us people in Fairfield don't get to vote on things anymore.
How about the rest of the states. How many states are there, Mr. Brown?
That is a quote that should be on Jay Leno. Say what you mean and mean what you say. JUST LIKE LEON HOWARD DID.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU BOYS. YOU HAVE MUCH TO LEARN. AND YOU SAY THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS A LOT TO LEARN?
DENTON, NEVER MIND. YOUR SKILLS, OR LACK OF SKILLS, ARE OBVIOUS.
NOW, YOU HAVE TWO SIDES OF THE ISSUE.
"RACE RELATIONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA EXIST ONLY IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA"
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? WHAT YOU DID WAS NOT WISE. TOO BAD YOU LISTEN TO THE WRONG PEOPLE.