Rating Group: South Carolina Business and Industry Political Education Committee
2003 Positions
Issues:
Business and Consumers
| State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC | U.S. House-3 | Jeff Duncan | R | 74% |
| SC | Lieutenant Governor | Glenn McConnell | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-1 | William Whitmire | R | 65% |
| SC | State House-2 | William Sandifer III | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-3 | B. R. Skelton | R | 96% |
| SC | State House-5 | Phillip Owens | R | 85% |
| SC | State House-6 | Brian White | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-14 | Michael Pitts | R | 75% |
| SC | State House-19 | Dwight Loftis | R | 98% |
| SC | State House-40 | Walton McLeod III | D | 44% |
| SC | State House-42 | Michael Anthony | D | 59% |
| SC | State House-43 | Greg Delleney, Jr. | R | 98% |
| SC | State House-46 | J. Simrill | R | 74% |
| SC | State House-50 | Grady Brown | D | 32% |
| SC | State House-51 | J. David Weeks | D | 14% |
| SC | State House-55 | Jackie Hayes | D | 75% |
| SC | State House-58 | Liston Barfield | R | 98% |
| SC | State House-61 | Lester Branham, Jr. | D | 69% |
| SC | State House-65 | James Lucas | R | 72% |
| SC | State House-66 | Gilda Cobb-Hunter | D | 34% |
| SC | State House-69 | Richard Quinn, Jr. | R | 96% |
| SC | State House-70 | Joseph Neal | D | 0% |
| SC | State House-72 | James Smith, Jr. | D | 55% |
| SC | State House-74 | James Rutherford | D | 0% |
| SC | State House-76 | Leon Howard | D | 2% |
| SC | State House-80 | Jimmy Bales | D | 51% |
| SC | State House-82 | William Clyburn, Sr. | D | 63% |
| SC | State House-84 | Roland Smith | R | 94% |
| SC | State House-85 | Chip Huggins | R | 80% |
| SC | State House-88 | McLain Toole | R | 74% |
| SC | State House-89 | Kenneth Bingham | R | 90% |
| SC | State House-91 | Lonnie Hosey | D | 14% |
| SC | State House-93 | Harry Ott, Jr. | D | 81% |
| SC | State House-95 | Jerry Govan, Jr. | D | 34% |
| SC | State House-99 | James Merrill | R | 84% |
| SC | State House-104 | Tracy Edge | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-107 | Alan Clemmons | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-109 | David Mack III | D | 18% |
| SC | State House-110 | Harry Limehouse III | R | 80% |
| SC | State House-113 | Seth Whipper | D | 23% |
| SC | State House-114 | Robert Harrell, Jr. | R | 100% |
| SC | State House-116 | Robert Brown | D | 37% |
| SC | State House-118 | William Herbkersman | R | 82% |
| SC | State House-122 | William Bowers | D | 73% |
| SC | State Senate-1 | Thomas Alexander | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-2 | Larry Martin | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-4 | William O'Dell | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-6 | Michael Fair | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-7 | Karl Allen | Other | 16% |
| SC | State Senate-9 | Daniel Verdin III | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-11 | Glenn Reese | D | 90% |
| SC | State Senate-14 | Harvey Smith Peeler, Jr. | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-15 | Wes Hayes, Jr. | R | 98% |
| SC | State Senate-16 | Chauncey Gregory | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-17 | Creighton Coleman | D | 32% |
| SC | State Senate-19 | John Scott, Jr. | D | 65% |
| SC | State Senate-20 | John Courson | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-21 | Darrell Jackson | D | 25% |
| SC | State Senate-22 | Joel Lourie | D | 58% |
| SC | State Senate-26 | Nikki Setzler | D | 98% |
| SC | State Senate-27 | Vincent Sheheen | D | 47% |
| SC | State Senate-29 | Gerald Malloy | D | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-31 | Hugh Kenneth Leatherman, Sr. | R | 100% |
| SC | State Senate-32 | John McGill | D | 33% |
| SC | State Senate-33 | Luke Rankin, Sr. | R | 29% |
| SC | State Senate-37 | Larry Grooms | R | 98% |
| SC | State Senate-39 | John Matthews, Jr. | D | 25% |
| SC | State Senate-40 | Charles Bradley Hutto | D | 34% |
| SC | State Senate-42 | Robert Ford | D | 19% |
| SC | State Senate-45 | Clementa Pinckney | D | 23% |
| SC | Treasurer | Converse Chellis III | Other | 98% |
| SC | Councilmember-3 | George Bailey | R | 89% |
| John Graham Altman III | Other | 75% | ||
| Ralph Anderson | Other | 23% | ||
| James Battle, Jr. | Other | 94% | ||
| William Branton, Jr. | Other | 100% | ||
| Floyd Breeland | Other | 18% | ||
| Joe Brown | Other | 39% | ||
| Harry Cato | Other | 90% | ||
| Catherine Ceips | Other | 82% | ||
| Ken Clark | Other | 90% | ||
| Marty Coates | Other | 76% | ||
| Daniel Cooper | Other | 82% | ||
| William Cotty | Other | 66% | ||
| Thomas Dantzler | Other | 69% | ||
| Guy Davenport, Jr. | Other | 31% | ||
| John Drummond | Other | 100% | ||
| Dick Elliott | Other | 98% | ||
| Eldridge Emory | Other | 61% | ||
| Mary Beth Freeman | Other | 67% | ||
| Marion Frye | Other | 96% | ||
| Warren Kenneth Giese | Other | 98% | ||
| JoAnne Gilham | Other | 62% | ||
| Maggie Wallace Glover | Other | 21% | ||
| Amos Lee Gourdine | Other | 35% | ||
| Ben Hagood, Jr. | Other | 78% | ||
| Glenn Hamilton | Other | 88% | ||
| James Harrison | Other | 86% | ||
| Charles Alexander Harvin III | Other | 25% | ||
| John Hawkins | Other | 100% | ||
| Jesse Edison Hines | Other | 51% | ||
| Mack Hines, Jr. | Other | 10% | ||
| Shirley Hinson | Other | 82% | ||
| Donald Harry Holland | Other | 29% | ||
| Douglas Jennings, Jr. | Other | 21% | ||
| Thomas Keegan | Other | 78% | ||
| Kenneth Kennedy | Other | 63% | ||
| Herbert Kirsh | Other | 78% | ||
| Jake Knotts, Jr. | Other | 84% | ||
| Larry Labruce Koon | Other | 92% | ||
| John Kuhn | Other | 98% | ||
| John Land III | Other | 25% | ||
| Robert Leach, Sr. | Other | 88% | ||
| Brenda Lee | Other | 57% | ||
| Phil Leventis | Other | 13% | ||
| Lanny Littlejohn | Other | 73% | ||
| Walter Lloyd | Other | 14% | ||
| Joseph Mahaffey, Sr. | Other | 96% | ||
| Becky Martin | Other | 88% | ||
| E. DeWitt McCraw | Other | 77% | ||
| James McGee III | Other | 76% | ||
| William Mescher | Other | 100% | ||
| Vida Miller | Other | 55% | ||
| Bessie Moody-Lawrence | Other | 16% | ||
| Tommy Moore | Other | 100% | ||
| James Neal | Other | 61% | ||
| Denny Neilson | Other | 57% | ||
| Anne Parks | Other | 75% | ||
| Kay Patterson | Other | 25% | ||
| Robert Perry, Jr. | Other | 100% | ||
| Olin Phillips | Other | 57% | ||
| Lewis Pinson | Other | 90% | ||
| Edward Pitts, Jr. | Other | 96% | ||
| Arthur Ravenel, Jr. | Other | 100% | ||
| Thomas Rhoad | Other | 71% | ||
| Rex Rice | Other | 100% | ||
| Rebecca Davis Richardson | Other | 68% | ||
| Scott Richardson | Other | 100% | ||
| James Ritchie, Jr. | Other | 100% | ||
| R. Thayer Rivers, Jr. | Other | 0% | ||
| Greg Ryberg | Other | 100% | ||
| Wallace Scarborough | Other | 84% | ||
| Linda Short | Other | 38% | ||
| Phillip Sinclair | Other | 94% | ||
| Donald Smith | Other | 78% | ||
| Fletcher Smith, Jr. | Other | 0% | ||
| Murrell Smith, Jr. | Other | 98% | ||
| Jefferson Verne Smith | Other | 100% | ||
| William Smith | Other | 84% | ||
| John Snow III | Other | 63% | ||
| James Stewart, Jr. | Other | 94% | ||
| Harry Carl Stille | Other | 68% | ||
| Scott Talley | Other | 80% | ||
| Adam Taylor, Sr. | Other | 94% | ||
| David Thomas | Other | 92% | ||
| Michael Thompson | Other | 100% | ||
| Ronald Parker Townsend | Other | 98% | ||
| Daniel Tripp | Other | 100% | ||
| Teddy Norman Trotter | Other | 100% | ||
| C. David Umphlett, Jr. | Other | 98% | ||
| Lewis Raymond Vaughn | Other | 94% | ||
| Thad Viers | Other | 100% | ||
| Bob Waldrep, Jr. | Other | 96% | ||
| Robert Walker | Other | 100% | ||
| David Horton Wilkins | Other | 100% | ||
| William Witherspoon | Other | 88% | ||
| Annette Young | Other | 84% |
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