I just walked over to Butch Bowers’ law office next to the Statehouse and knocked on the locked door.

He came out into the hallway, saw me through the window, turned around and walked back inside.
postandcourier.com/columbia/colum… Here’s a photo of Bowers’ office. You may recognize the name of the other attorney who used to work in the same building with him before taking on a different job. #scpol

SC Senate Medical Affairs Committee meeting now to discuss the bill to ban all abortions in the state after ~6 weeks of pregnancy.

The bill, S.1, is moving rapidly through the legislative process after advancing out of subcommittee last week: postandcourier.com/politics/anti-… .@senatortomdavis (R-Beaufort) introduces amendment to provide exception to abortion ban in cases of rape/incest (currently only exception is if life of pregnant woman is in danger).

Sen. Tom Corbin (R-Greenville) asks what would prevent a woman from lying to get an abortion.

SC Gov. @HenryMcMaster enters the House chamber to deliver his 2021 State of the State address. #scpol McMaster’s address is being broadcast on @SCETV and streamed online: scetv.org/live/state-sta…

Just in: A plane has crashed in the Rosewood neighborhood of Columbia. Update from Columbia police:

https://twitter.com/columbiapdsc/status/1349386505454759936

Just in: A South Carolina circuit court judge has temporarily blocked @henrymcmaster's decision to use $32M of federal coronavirus aid to fund private school vouchers
postandcourier.com/politics/sc-ju… @henrymcmaster Skyler Hutto, the son of @BradHutto, argued McMaster's plan violates a portion of the state constitution that prevents the government from funding private/religious education.

Judge Edgar Dickson agreed to halt the spending until a court hearing next week
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Good morning from Beaufort, where @PeteButtigieg is set to begin a weekend in South Carolina.

Several hundred folks were undeterred by the rain and are now filing in. #SC2020 @PeteButtigieg Opening with a shoutout to SC Dems, GA Dems and IN Dems in attendance, @PeteButtigieg says "we know that there is no such thing as a permanently red state." #SC2020

THREAD: Today, S.C. utility regulators cut power rates 17 months after a massive nuclear project was nixed. It's way less than many hoped, but still billions of dollars in future savings for the public.

It may not have happened without the work of unrelenting local reporters. 2) Those reporters are too humble to take credit for what they did, so I'll give it to them in the form of a few highlights.

On day one, @Andy_Ed_Brown laid out what SCE&G wanted to do when they cancelled the project: Charge the blameless public for it
postandcourier.com/business/the-f…