Cut Sales Taxes
Cut Income Taxes
Capped Property Taxes
Passed Spending Caps
Eliminated Anonymous Budget Earmark
Repaving I-526 in West Ashley
Funding for Local Road Improvements
Blocked Gas Tax Increase
Passed
Property Insurance Reform
Passed Tougher DUI and criminal laws
Introduced Education Funding Reform
Co-Sponsored Government Restructuring
Passed DOT Reform
Passed Worker's
Compensation Reform
Supported Public School Choice Legislation
Passed School Bus Safety Replacement Cycle
Passed
Immigration Reform
Reformed K-12 School Testing
Created Charleston Green Space Fund
Fought for
Environmental Conservation
School Bus triumph
"Three
big congratulations are in order:
First, to The Post and Courier and its reporters and editors for their in-depth series
informing the public about dangerously aged and under-maintained public school buses.
Second, to state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis,
who read the series and took action, introducing thoughtful legislation to deal with the problem effectively.
Third,
to the South Carolina General Assembly, not only for passing the legislation to provide funding to fully replace the aged
bus fleet with new vehicles over the next 15 years, and then acting in a bipartisan spirit to override a veto that might kindly
be characterized as unpersuasive."
Jack Bass
Charleston, SC
Post & Courier, June 14, 2007
