Comments on: Pint Bill passes S.C. Senate

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:24 +0000

[…] expected, the bill – which passed out of the Senate on Wednesday – came up against little opposition in the House. Lawmakers concurred with the […]

By: drinkblogrepeat

drinkblogrepeat — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:51:52 +0000

What Fair did was place an objection on the bill that required him to be present before a vote could be held. If the bill came up and he didn’t want it to be voted on, he could just leave the chamber and the legislation would have to be carried over. Any senator can do it for any legislation as far as I know. That’s SC politics for you.

I’m not surprised he voted against it even with a compromise. He’s a teetotaler who objects to any expansion on sales of alcohol. MADD reportedly got him to place the objection on the bill so they could get a compromise worked out. (For what it’s worth, MADD wanted to do away with samples all together, so it could have been a lot worse.)

By: brad

brad — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:51:39 +0000

Wait a minute… So Mike Fair’s objection is what lead to the watered-down compromise that was just passed, but he voted against it anyway? What the fuck, Mike??

Is this how the SC senate works? You can effectively launch a one-man filibuster that forces people to change the contents of bills that you don’t plan on supporting no matter what? So why even bother “compromising”? Or, why not conduct all business via these “objections”? Why bother voting at all?