News and Press Releases for December 2007
December 3, 2007
Columbia, S.C -Governor Mark Sanford today announced that he has reappointed Jim Schweitzer to lead the South Carolina Department of Public Safety for another four-year term...
December 6, 2007
Columbia, S.C. - December 6, 2007 - In light of this week’s report by USC economists that South Carolina’s economy is expected to slow in the coming year, Governor Sanford today likened the upcoming budget challenges to the old Dickens story A Christmas Carol, warning of ghosts of budgets past, present and future coming back to haunt the state...
December 10, 2007
Charleston, S.C. - December 10, 2006 - Gov. Mark Sanford announced today that his upcoming Executive Budget will add $50 million to the South Carolina Conservation Land Bank, for a total of $65 million aimed at increasing the state’s ability to preserve and set aside land...
December 13, 2007
Columbia, SC - December 13, 2007 - Governor Mark Sanford today issued the following statement on the SC Ports Authority’s unanimous approval of a bi-state agreement with Georgia whereby the two states would cooperatively develop a new port on the Savannah River in Jasper County:...
December 17, 2007
Columbia, S.C. - December 17, 2007 - Governor Mark Sanford today released another preview of his forthcoming Executive Budget, a series of measures aimed at reforming the way the state spends money. Specifically, the budget will call for three types of spending reform: caps on spending, more transparency in the spending process, and limits on using one-time money for ongoing expenses.
December 19, 2007
Columbia, S.C. - December 19, 2007 - In the latest preview of his upcoming Executive Budget, Governor Mark Sanford today called for an optional 50 percent reduction to the state’s top marginal income tax rate - from the current 7 percent to 3.4 percent - to be offset by a 30-cents-per-pack increase to the state’s cigarette tax.