Post by Logan on Feb 25, 2016 7:48:57 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — The senator who has used a filibuster to block voting on a roads bill is arguing the state should spend at least some of a $1.3 billion budget surplus on roads instead of raising the gas tax which he said would hurt South Carolina's poor.
Sen. Tom Davis, a Beaufort Republican, spent a fourth day of his filibuster on Wednesday talking about the gas tax, the budget surplus and why lawmakers should not use much of the surplus in responding to an education funding equity lawsuit.
And once again, no senator moved to stop Davis talking. Senators continued meeting into the evening.
Davis has said he is conducting the filibuster because he wants more direct accountability at the state Department of Transportation and the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and feels raising the state's gas tax, last increased in 1987, is unnecessary.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/24/davis-uses-filibuster-talk-surplus-roads/80855102/
Sen. Tom Davis, a Beaufort Republican, spent a fourth day of his filibuster on Wednesday talking about the gas tax, the budget surplus and why lawmakers should not use much of the surplus in responding to an education funding equity lawsuit.
And once again, no senator moved to stop Davis talking. Senators continued meeting into the evening.
Davis has said he is conducting the filibuster because he wants more direct accountability at the state Department of Transportation and the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank and feels raising the state's gas tax, last increased in 1987, is unnecessary.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/24/davis-uses-filibuster-talk-surplus-roads/80855102/