Earlier this week, I returned to the Statehouse for my seventh year as your State Representative in Greenville County’s House District 27. Also returning were my 123 fellow House members. Together, we are committed to helping steer the state through these tough times.

The upcoming Town Hall which Garry will be speaking at will be streamed live on the popular streaming site ustream.tv, on the new GarrySmith.org ustream show for Town Hall Meetings in the upstate of South Carolina.

Representative Eric Bedingfield Representative Garry Smith, Representative Mark Willis, Senator David Thomas & Senator Danny Verdin

cordially invites you
to attend our
first Town Hall Meeting
this legislative year
Sam’s Restaurant
Thursday, January 21, 2010
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Town Hall Event Sponsored by the Mauldin, Simpsonville & Fountain Inn Chambers of Commerce

The South Carolina House of Representatives in special session today passed a measure on second reading to allow for federal funds to be used for extended benefits for employment security. The measure will get third reading tomorrow, and pass back to the Senate for concurrance.

In another matter, Representative Greg Delaney introduced a Resolution of Impeachment. The resolution was ruled out of order under the Sine Die Resolution which the special session was called under by Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell.

On September 2, 2009 I participated in a news conference at the Simpsonville Verizon Central Office about a major addition to the Verizon system for this area. The following is my statement released at the press conference.

Each year the South Carolina House Republican Caucus meets to discuss and plan for the coming legislative year.

This years planning retreat was held this weekend at the Marriott in Myrtle Beach. It was attended by 56 of the 73 members of the Caucus, and resulted in an agressive legislative agenda that will focus on growing our economy in South Carolina.

For every session of the South Carolina General since 1985 the, BIPEC has used the roll call votes on business issues to calculate a Vote Score for each member of the SC General Assembly to determine the legislator's business stance. This year 5 members of the 124 members of the South Carolina House of Representatives received a score of 100+.

Over the past few weeks I have been shocked and disappointed to hear Governor Sanford’s revelation, as many of you have expressed to me, also. I ask each of you to keep the Sanford family in your thoughts and prayers.

The South Carolina Policy Council posted the a brief video of the press confernce today. The following is a link to this video.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/scpolicycouncil/videos/5/