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Faces of Death: S.C. Domestic Violence
Battered and Bruised: South Carolina’s Black Eye
– The pain of domestic violence
lingers in South Carolina despite
stiffer punishment and new funds
to attack the problem. The state
ranks sixth nationally for incidents
of domestic violence, and first for
women killed by abusive partners. A
woman is assaulted every 15 minutes
in the state, though many cases go
unreported.
For Susan Gowens, the abuse
began with name calling. Then road
rage. By the time Gowens summoned
the strength to leave her boyfriend of six
years, he had twisted her arm behind
her back in a crowded restaurant and
– worse – abused her in front of her
nine-year-old daughter.
“Thank God I am free, and no longer
have to deal with that part of my life,”
said Gowens, of Greenville. “I realized
it wasn’t only the effect on me, but on
my children. I was making bad choices
at the time. But I’m no longer living in
By Chris McCarter
Senior Writer
the dark.”
Likewise, “Wendy” will never
forget her first beating from her live-in
boyfriend at age 19.
He “smacked me across the room,”
then leveled four more punishing blows,
leaving her so bruised she couldn’t
show her face at work, says Wendy, a
Greenville woman who didn’t want her
real name used.
The boyfriend hit her because he
didn’t like the music she was playing on
the stereo, she says.
Now a career woman, Wendy
still bears the mental scars of being
dragged across hardwood floors by her
hair – “thump, thump, thump” – after
another beating. The offense this time:
Getting the boyfriend’s order wrong
from McDonald’s.
Wendy said her boy friend
threatened to throw a plugged-in
hairdryer into the water as she bathed,
and intimidated her with a poisonous
spider he kept in a jar as a warning.
After being kicked in the stomach
with steel-toed combat boots while
pregnant, followed by years of spending
the night hiding in her workplace with
her toddler by her side, Wendy says,
“it’s crazy, but I’m a stronger person.”
Gowens, 43, and Wendy, 26,
are among the lucky ones in South
Carolina.
Last year, 37 women in similar
circumstances were murdered by their
husband or partner, ranking South
Carolina first in the nation for women
killed by men who are supposed to love
them.
More than 35,000 cases of domestic
violence are reported each year in the
state, ranking South Carolina sixth in
the nation per capita (based on 10,000
population), State Law Enforcement
Division records show.
Nationally, a fourth of abused
women end up being killed by their
abusers, and the rate is likely higher in
South Carolina; SLED can’t track the
untold thousands of unreported abuse
cases.
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But Gowens’ and Wendy’s stories
have happy endings, as both say they
gained strength to carry on after the
traumas.
We’re Number One
After nearly 36,000 South Carolina
victims reported a domestic violence
incident by an intimate partner in 2003,
Attorney General Henry McMaster
named domestic violence as the
state’s “number one crime problem,”
and has called it “a scourge on South
Carolina.”
But number of deaths by abuse
makes South Carolina’s domestic
violence black eye even more visible.
Forty-four people (37 women) were
murdered as the result of domestic
violence in South Carolina in 2004.
Nearly a third of those deaths
were in the Midlands, including seven
in Richland and four in Lexington
counties.
Guns were used in 29 of the
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defendants are found not guilty.
In prior years, judges and
prosecutors in South Carolina dropped
54 percent of the most serious
domestic violence charges from 1996
through 2000.
Even upon conviction,
maximum sentence for first- and
second-offense cases is 30 days in
jail.
significant,” Barton says. “We’re just
now getting enough hands around this
issue to get a handle on it.”
One downside is that the
tougher law may actually complicate
convictions, Barton said, because it’s
the less likely a defendant will plead guilty
and instead opt for a jury trial.
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But statistics show that of even
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penalties are good, but it’s not so cut
and dried that they will immediately
make women safer. With more cases
going to Circuit rather than magistrate
court, it may take 15 months for a case
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Over that period, women are at
risk from accused abuser who may be
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And South Carolina appears to
be on the same track in 2006 to top
the nation for the number of domestic
violence cases and deaths, with seven
deaths this year.
In early March, three women were
killed in a single
week in the Myrtle “When the husband left, she [the victim] was
Beach area, and
another was shot conscious, but on the floor. She told me she thought
in the face in a
near-fatal domestic she was going to die”
violence case in
Rock Hill.
Boyfriends or estranged husbands
are suspects in three coastal deaths.
Two were shot, and the third was
discovered in the trunk of a car.
“There are so many cultural
components to the problem, social,
political and psychological aspects,
that there will be some period of time
before we see significant change,”
says Nancy Barton, director of
Sistercare, Inc., which operates three
domestic violence shelters in Richland
and Lexington counties. “So much has
to do with attitudes and beliefs.”
A new law went into affect this
year toughening the punishment
for domestic violence, upping third-
domestic violence offenses and cases
with severe injuries to felony status,
rather than misdemeanors.
Other recent law changes
lengthened jail sentences for serious
domestic violence cases and set aside
money from fines and fees from such
cases for enforcement, prosecution
and outreach.
Meanwhile, the state has secured
new federal grant money to attack the
problem.
South Carolina has consistently
ranked among the top five states for
per capita domestic violence incident
rates for a decade, and at or near
number one for the past seven years of
states for killings related to domestic
violence, the Violence Policy Center in
Washington, D.C., reports.
Tougher Penalties
In South Carolina, first- and
second-offense domestic violence
cases that don’t involve serious injuries
are heard in magistrate and municipal
courts, where most are dismissed or
Under a 2003 law, more serious
domestic violence cases are tried in
Circuit Court, which receive penalties
of up to 90 days in jail.
And beginning Jan. 1, a new
law passed last year went into
effect further toughens penalties for
domestic violence, including making
a third offense a felony instead of a
misdemeanor.
The law also defines domestic
violence of a “high and aggravated
nature” – with serious bodily harm or
with a weapon, for example – as a
felony.
Both charges carry a minimum of
a year in prison and a maximum of 10
years.
The 2006 law also requires new
training for judges on domestic-
violence issues.
Jury Still Out on Domestic
Violence Law
“The team members are just now
prosecuting and adjudicating these
cases, so at this point, three months
into the new law, we’re not seeing
changes that we could say were
Grainger, 50, was found shot to
death in Little River.
At the time of Grainger’s death,
Winkler was out on $150,000 bail and
wearing an electronic monitor after
spending two weeks in jail.
But in December, a judge gave
Winkler two hours a day – from 4 to 6
p.m. – to look for work.
Grainger was killed around 5:30
p.m.
Winkler, who hid from police for
two weeks before being captured
March 20 in Little River, has been
charged in Grainger’s death.
Winkler is one of three Coastal area
suspects, along with Billy Nathan Lee
and Vladimir Walt Pantovich, currently
facing prosecution by the 15th Judicial
Circuit Solicitor’s Office in domestic
violence death cases.
All three killings occurred during
the first week of March.
The three men are awaiting bails
to be set by a Circuit Court judge in
upcoming general sessions court
in Horry County this week and in
Georgetown County next week.
Pantovich, 54, faces charges
related to the death of his girlfriend,
Sheila Ann McPherson, 49, whose
body was found in the trunk of his car
last month.
Carma Russell, 31, was shot
and killed outside an Atlantic Beach
church March 4. Her boyfriend, Lee,
47, was arrested at the scene, and
police charged him with murder.
The three women killed
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“underestimated the danger of their
abuser,” said Gayle Post, director of
counseling services for CASA.
“It’s such a crucial thing to realize
they are in danger and to take that
seriously. Our whole focus is to help
people feel safe and secure so they
know what their options are and what to
do about it,” Post says. “We try strongly
to encourage them to relocate, and we
help them do it.”
Another troubling aspect of the
state’s revised law is that it narrows the
definition of those who can be charged
with criminal domestic violence (CDV):
Only live-in boyfriends, husbands or
those who have a child with a spouse
could be charged for the crime, rather
than any boyfriend, husband or ex-
husband, as the crime had been defined
before.
Critics say that change in the law
may be skewing South Carolina’s
domestic violence cases to appear to
be on the decline.
Another flip side of the tougher
CDV law is that women who fight back
in cases of abuse are subject to same
stiffer penalties, says Barton, whose
organization also serves women facing
or recently released from jail or prison.
“The general public may not have
an appreciation that batterers often are
manipulators, and will often call law
enforcement saying the victim initiated
the assault,” Barton said. “So sometimes
people defending themselves from the
primary aggressors are arrested, and
subject to more injustice. Sometimes
children are left with the actual abuser.”
In criminal domestic violence
cases of a high and aggravated nature,
perpetrators “get a stiffer penalty and
assuming they’re convicted, they should
get longer sentences.”
“Some of these men are quite
dangerous, and the women and children
need more time away from the abuser to
get along with their lives,” Barton says.
But if the law results in fewer
convictions, each time an abuser
manages to beat jail time or even
mandated treatment, “they get even
more emboldened,” Barton says.
Still, Barton says, most victims’
advocates are in favor of the new law.
Lawyers Wanted
To stem the rising tide of violence,
McMaster’s office also launched a
pilot program in 2003 in the Midlands,
which has trained 85 volunteer lawyers
to prosecute CDV cases in magistrate
courts.
“With few exceptions, most of
these cases take place in magistrate
courts without a prosecutor present,
leaving the victim and the state without
representation, leading to dropped
charges, fewer convictions and many
miscarriages of justice,” McMaster
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said.
Cases often are dismissed, or
defendants are found not guilty.
The pilot program uses lawyers
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McMaster said.
Already in Richland, Kershaw and
Orangeburg counties, the program
has resulted in a 70 percent domestic
violence conviction rate – over 1,400
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What’s needed, says McMaster’s
office, is for South Carolina to set
aside state budget money for a full-
time prosecutor dedicated to domestic
violence cases in each of the state’s 46
counties.
McMaster’s office is asking for $2.2
million from South Carolina’s 2006-
2007 budget so each county can hire
an assistant solicitor to prosecute CDV
cases in magistrate courts.
“Unfortunately, there will never be
enough volunteer prosecutors or federal
grant money available to prosecute the
36,000 annual cases in the state’s 300-
plus magistrate courts,” McMaster says.
“The solution is to provide our Solicitors
the resources to hire dedicated domestic
violence prosecutors for every county.”
A full-time prosecutor costs about
$70,000, more than double what many
rural counties currently spend on
domestic violence.
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In 2004, the latest years for which
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Richland County had nearly 2,400
domestic assaults in 2004, ranking it 30th
of 46 S.C. counties, per capita (based
on assaults per 10,000 population);
Lexington County had nearly 1,700,
ranking it 28th.
Incidents of domestic violence have
been on the rise nationwide. In South
Carolina, the number of victims grew
from 27,000 in 2002 to nearly 36,000 last
year, according to the Attorney General
Office’s “Silent Witness” Program
report.
South Carolina’s average demand
for domestic violence services has
increased by 20 percent each year since
2002, SLED reports.
In 2003, 4,400 women and children
were sheltered from abuse, 14,275
domestic violence victims received non-
residential services such as counseling,
support groups, court advocacy, and
financial aid, and 4,434 children received
such services in South Carolina.
The Attorney General’s Office
lists more than 50 “domestic violence
organizations,” but many of those can
only offer a referral to a shelter, and few
shelters can accommodate both mothers
and children, requiring separation of
children from their mothers in abuse
cases, Barton says.
Statewide, about 400 women were
turned away from shelters due to lack
of space last year, while 34,000 hotline
calls were answered.
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There are only about a dozen
centers in the state that offer shelter to
both women and children seeking refuge
from domestic violence.
Sistercare’s shelters in Lexington
and Richland counties, which serve five
Midlands counties, are consistently full,
Barton says.
Sistercare operates a 24-bed shelter
in Columbia and a 20-bed shelter in
Lexington County.
Faced with overcrowding, Sistercare
in 2004 opened a third emergency shelter
for battered women and their children in
Richland County, which can house up to
15 people.
Before opening the third shelter,
Sistercare turned away 345 domestic
violence victims due to lack of space.
Even with the new shelter, 62 could not
be housed due to lack of beds last year,
Barton says.
In Greenville, Safe Harbor answers
nearly 800 crisis calls, shelters about 350
victims of domestic violence, and must
turn away about 200 each year, said
Executive Director Renee Middleton.
“We had to turn 210 away last year,
and tried to place them in a shelter in
Anderson County, whose 15 beds are
almost always full,” Middleton said.
“There’s just no space.”
Greenville’s Safe Harbor shelter
is overflowing, and its staff of 11 is
overburdened, Middleton said.
During 1997, the shelter answered
780 crisis calls and served 265 clients.
After adding 10 beds in 2001, it answered
782 calls and took in 348.
In 2004, Safe Harbor answered
2,000 crisis calls and received about
11,000 information and referral calls on
its crisis line.
Safe Passage, which operates
victim assistance and shelters York,
Statewide, about 400 women were
turned away from shelters due to
lack of space last year, while 34,000
hotline calls were answered.
Chester and Lancaster counties are
continuously full, says executive director
Peggy Payne.
Advocates Push Prevention Over
Prosecution
Middleton and Barton, both of whom
operate non-profits that provide shelter,
support and outreach to women victims
of domestic violence, believe the new
efforts aren’t working as well as they
could because significantly more money
goes to prosecution than to prevention.
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“There is no deterrent, really,”
Bourus said. “Treatment needs to be
focused and directed.”
In York County’s two recent
shootings, both men had been arrested
before for domestic assault.
In a York County case in early March,
31-year-old Anna Fowler was shot in the
face by her boyfriend at her Rock Hill
home.
Fowler is still being treated at
Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte
after an operation for a skull fracture and
to remove bullet fragments since she
was shot by William Paul Akley Jr.
Akley, 28, later died after turning the
gun on himself.
After the first shot, Anna’s mother,
Shirley Fowler, and 4-year-old daughter
fled and hid in the woods, but not
before the child pleaded, “Don’t shoot
my mommy. Don’t shoot my mommy,”
Shirley Fowler said, according to a report
in The Herald of Rock Hill.
York County was seventh in the
state for domestic violence incidences
in 2004, and the York County Sheriff’s
Office received 2,270 domestic violence-
related calls, up 7.7 percent from 2,107
calls in 2004.
Most women seeking aid and shelter
at Sistercare are in their late 20s and
early 30s, Barton says; the average age
is 32.
Statewide, however, statistics show
the average age for a domestic abuse
victim in South Carolina is 19.
In October 2004 in Lexington
County, 18-year-old Megan Jackson
was attacked as she tried to drive away
from her boyfriend, Michael Humphrey.
Humphrey jumped into the back
of her pickup and broke the rear glass
window, causing Jackson to veer off the
road and smash into a tree.
When EMTs arrived Humphrey was
“yelling at the unconscious body of Ms.
Jackson,” according to the Attorney
General Office’s “Silent Witness” report.
Jackson died of head injuries
four days later, and Humphrey’s trial
is pending, according to the Attorney
General’s Office.
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live or die,” says Safe Passage’s Payne.
“It’s an epidemic, and we’re going to
stop it.”
But as it changes laws, South
Carolina must change attitudes, often
by early intervention, Bourus says.
“The mentality here smacks of old
times when men owned women,” said
Bourus, adding there were no laws
against domestic violence in South
Carolina until 1984. “In the South, things
change slowly.”
“Whenever we see this kind of rash
of domestic homicides, it’s difficult to
know the facts leading to the violence,
particularly in Horry County,” Bourus
said of March’s killings. “State leaders
are taking a closer look at it and are
raising awareness.”
This year, the Coalition and other
advocates are working for a bill that
would let victims charge perpetrators
for medical costs and a bill that would
place the national domestic violence
hotline number – 1-800-799-SAFE – on
driver’s licenses.
Bourus and other advocates are
pushing for increased training for law
enforcement officers and more judges
referring abusers to a 26-week batterer
treatment program.
The Beating Goes On
In three recent cases in Columbia
this year, women were severely injured,
resulting in prison sentences against
two abusers, while a third awaits trial,
Barton says.
One Columbia woman’s attacker
pled guilty and was given a six-year
prison sentence after aggressive
prosecution by Richland County’s 5th
Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
“This was a really serious attack,”
says Barton who counseled the victim
herself. “When the husband left, she
[the victim] was conscious, but on the
floor. She told me she thought she was
going to die, and was doing one of those
life reviews. She thought about how she
was going to die and leave behind four
children who were of pre-school age.”
In another recent Columbia area
attack, a woman required reconstructive
surgery to install metal plates to repair
“horribly” shattered bones in her face,
Barton says.
“She felt like she’d been left to die,”
Barton said of the 26-year-old woman,
who required services from multiple
agencies for medical expenses, child
care and coaching by counselors to
prosecute the abuser.
“When she didn’t die, the thought
of going through an actual trial and
taking care of her children while being
hospitalized created a really serious
period of depression and hopelessness,”
Barton says.
In the third case, not yet heard in
court, Barton says, prosecutors should
citypaper April 12, 2006 7
seek a more serious charge of assault
and battery with intent to kill.
The 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office is
pursuing a charge of CDV of a high and
aggravated nature, but prosecutors also
are seeking a conviction for kidnapping
and burglary, after an estranged
boyfriend broke into a woman’s house,
smashed her on the head repeatedly
with a broken bottle and abducted her.
Again the woman, who required
surgery, thought her attacker “had left
her for dead,” says Barton.
The 41-year-old woman had been
in a relationship with her abuser for 19
years, Barton says.
Part of the job at Sistercare and
other support centers is to teach women
“to think differently,” she says.
Sometimes the counseling involves
role playing with women in potentially
volatile or violent situations, Barton
says.
“She said if she was back in her
home and never left, she might not have
seen there are other ways of thinking,”
Barton says of the 41-year-old victim.
“We give them hope and show there are
other ways of living than staying in an
abusive relationship.”
More Arrests, But Crowding
Docket May Delay Convictions
The number of CDV arrests in
South Carolina from 2002 to 2004 has
skyrocketed – to nearly 15,000 from
fewer than 2,000, according to the
Attorney General’s “Silent Witness”
report.
Statewide, arrests were made in
19,429 cases of 98,134 total victims
of domestic violence between 2002
and 2004, or 19.8 percent, the attorney
general’s office reports.
But that average, still less than 20
percent, came only after 14,796 arrests
were made in cases of 35,124 total
victims in 2004 – 42 percent.
In 2002, arrests were made in only
1,951 (7.1 percent) of 27,418 cases, and
in 2,682 (7.5 percent), of 35,592 cases
in 2003, according to Attorney General’s
Office stats.
Of 6,543 victims of domestic
violence in Richland County between
2002 and 2004, 2,533 arrests were
made (38.7 percent).
Of 4,426 total victims in Lexington
County over those years, 1,761 arrests
were made, just under 40 percent.
Local and state court officials
are asking for more money to step
up prosecution of domestic-violence
crime.
“We’re interested in a falling ranking,”
said Mark Plowden, a spokesman for
McMaster. “McMaster has said on
numerous occasions that he recognizes
that criminal domestic violence is a
number one crime problem in the state
of South Carolina and every single effort
8 citypaper April 12, 2006
this state can take to control and deter
it is necessary, needed and overdue.”
Plowden said it’s likely the $2
million needed to put a prosecutor in
the courts in each county will pass in
the state budget this year.
“Unless you have a prosecutor in
every magistrate court in the state, you
stand very little chance of fighting the
problem,” Plowden said. “When crimes
are repeated, they get worse, not better.
We have to fight to solve the problem
locally.”
Richland and Lexington counties
may be better off than other South
Carolina counties.
In Richland, the Solicitor’s Office
provides a prosecutor for all criminal
domestic violence bench trials and
jury trials in magistrate court. Jury
trial municipal court cases also are
prosecuted by the Solicitor’s Office.
Bench trial cases in municipal court
are handled by the pro bono program
through the Office of the Attorney
General, and there is a centralized
court for criminal domestic violence
held twice a month.
In Lexington County, likewise,
there’s a prosecutor present for cases
of criminal domestic violence in
magistrate court and a centralized court
for criminal domestic violence cases.
There are full-time prosecutors in
both counties, but fewer than half the
cases entering the cases that enter the
court system are jury trials.
The 13th judiciary Circuit Solicitor’s
Office – which covers Greenville and
Pickens counties – has two prosecutors
who focus almost entirely on domestic
violence cases and two investigators
who work the cases, zeroing in on
cases that need swift action, such
as those that may lead to a serious
assault or killing, according to an office
spokeswoman.
Additionally, the office employs
three full-time victim advocates, she
said, and Greenville County’s Solicitor’s
Office is one of the few whose lawyers
also prosecute cases in magistrate
“History shows people think it’s
OK to hit your wife,” Hawkins says.
“You have to change the culture.”
court.
But in poorer counties, some
say victims are afforded fewer rights
than their accused abusers, who
are guaranteed the legal right to a
county-paid court-appointed attorney
in General Sessions Court cases
prosecuted by a Solicitor.
Success Stories
Some areas of the state already
have seen success in reducing their
domestic violence incidents as a result
of domestic-violence educational
programs and community involvement.
Spartanburg County has reduced
its number of domestic-violence-
related crimes after a rash of homicides
more than 10 years ago prompted them
to act. Since 2004, domestic-violence
incidents have fallen by 26 percent
in the county, said Lynn Hawkins,
executive director of Safe Homes-Rape
Crisis Coalition in Spartanburg.
“Every time you see so many
murders in a short time span, it brings
your attention to it,” Hawkins says. “It’s
easier to overlook one murder than
three murders; it’s a huge cry for help.
“History shows people think it’s OK
to hit your wife,” Hawkins says. “You
have to change the culture.”
In the summer of 1993, Spartanburg
had seven killings in seven weeks due
to domestic violence, Hawkins said.
She said the community got a federal
grant to help pay for a consultant to do
a safety audit.
“We tracked 50 cases from start to
finish, reviewed the cases and looked at
them intensely,” Hawkins said. “I think it
helped to truly raise awareness. Lots of
things were small changes that made a
great impact, such as safety planning
for victims when they come into the
family court.”
Hawkins said the initiative was the
start of the area getting a domestic-
violence court; a violence-against-
women officer in the solicitor’s office;
a better working relationship between
law enforcement and the solicitor; a
one-stop shop for victims of domestic
violence and sexual assault and training
education for law enforcement; legal
aid; the solicitor’s office; schools;
Department of Health and Environmental
Control officials; and other nonprofits
that work with the victims.
County Government Shelter
Support Varies
But some South Carolina counties
fare better than others when it comes
to local government support.
Middleton said Greenville County
is one of the few like-size counties and
cities with similar financial resources
that don’t fund their private domestic
abuse shelters, counseling centers and
educational outreach programs.
In 2000, a state law was passed
that enables the state to earmark
money collected from fines and fees
from CDV cases for “first tier” agencies,
such as law enforcement and the
“A lot of people don’t realize the
problem until they fall into the situation,
and when it happens, it’s a struggle to get
out,” Wendy said. “But now I feel I can
stand up to anybody.”
Greenville County Solicitor’s Office,
and then to “second tier” groups that
provide community services, such as
Safe Harbor.
Sistercare receives these so-called
141 Funds from CDV fines and fees,
Barton says.
Sistercare opened its first
emergency shelter in Richland County
with funding from the Junior League of
Columbia in a house rented from the
Columbia Housing Authority in 1981.
In 1982, Sistercare became a
United Way member agency, and a City
of Columbia grant allowed the purchase
of a permanent 24-bed shelter.
With funding from the South
Carolina Department of Social Services,
the United Way of the Midlands, and
contributions from local churches, civic
organizations, county funds and grants,
it opened shelter Lexington County, and
third Richland County shelter in 2004.
The primary private center in
Spartanburg, Spartanburg Safe Homes,
also receives 141 Funds under the 2000
law, said Director Hawkins, as does
Spartanburg’s United Way, for domestic
violence programs.
In Myrtle Beach, CASA receives
financing from the law through Horry
County, Patterson said.
CASA also receives $55,000
annually from the City of Myrtle Beach,
$20,000 from Horry County and $15,000
from Georgetown County.
“We are envied by other shelters
around the state that don’t have as
enlightened a council as we do,”
Patterson said. “When the crime goes
down enough, we’ll gladly stop asking
for it.”
But in Greenville, Middleton
said private organizations such as
Safe Harbor, Compass of Carolina,
the Alliance for Community Trust,
Greenville’s sexual trauma center (Rape
Crisis Center), a church-supported
batterer’s intervention program and
another one that aids the local Hispanic
population, need more support from
county and city government.
Cover Story
In fiscal years 2001 and 2002,
Safe Harbor received about $150,000
to pay for an outreach counselor
and a forensic interviewer for rape
investigation and to expand the shelter
from the 141 Funds under the law.
“But each year since, it’s been like
pulling teeth to get funding,” Middleton
said.
Last year, Greenville County Council
voted 10-1 not to give any of the $2.46
million of the county’s 141 Funds
to Safe Harbor, and instead all the
money went to the Greenville County
Sheriff’s Office, Solicitor’s Office and
other county offices that aid domestic
violence victims.
Council members felt that when
county employees in those offices
were facing hiring freezes and cutting
staff, it was more important to fund
the county staff members than private
organizations.
Breaking the Cycle of Violence by
Breaking the Silence
Still, law enforcement officials and
victims advocates say there’s really
no answer for what could have been
done differently in the cases of three
women killed last month by husbands
or boyfriends now charged in their
deaths.
Domestic violence will continue to
happen until the state sends a message
that it won’t be tolerated. With three
dead in less than a week, the message
needs to be a lot louder.
“It’s not getting any better,”
McMaster said. “It’s a horrible
injustice.”
Meanwhile, the Feds are coming
to the rescue. South Carolina’s
congressional delegation pushed for
a provision in the fiscal 2004 federal
budget to set aside $695,000 for
victim’s assistance programs in South
Carolina, under the South Carolina
Domestic Violence Reduction Initiative,
a statewide, coordinated effort to
reduce South Carolina’s domestic
violence rate.
The funds included $150,000 is for
Safe Passage, $150,000 for Safe Homes,
which assists victims in Spartanburg,
and $220,000 for the Cumbee Center to
Assist Abused Persons, which assists
victims in Aiken, Barnwell, Allendale,
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In August 2004, the U.S. Department and victim testimonials, along with Safe
of Justice released $366,000 to fund Harbor’s “Clothespin” project, in which
domestic violence prevention and women victims of domestic abuse
assistance programs in South Carolina, have handwritten with indelible ink T-
including $148,000 for operational shirts with their feelings and even the
assistance at Safe Harbor’s work in abuses they suffered.
Greenville and Anderson. Gowens, too, says she’s grown
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turned-advocate, didn’t have the
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“It’s nothing to be ashamed of,”
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10 citypaper April 12, 2006 Crime Watch

Mr.
per, 3500 block Wheat Street

29265

Meaner’s
While arresting a 33-year-old man on a
bench warrant, police found what they
described as “a green leafy-like sub-
stance that is believed to be marijuana...
rolled in a piece of paper in the subject’s
left front pocket.” Yo, it’s weed. Just say
it, 1500 block Maple Street

29349
Cops went to go check out a suspect
they found loitering and when they did,
they found him drunk. While placing the
20-year-old man under arrest for drunk-

CRIME
enness, the officer noticed a small plas-
tic baggie containing two pills. The re-

WATCH
The people involved in these in-
cidents are innocent until proven
guilty. The accounts come directly
from police reports. This is not a
court of law.
29203
A woman told officers that she was walk-
ing in the woods when a man stopped
her and asked her where she was go-
ing. He then pointed a silver handgun at
her face for a moment, and then put it
back down by his side. The woman ran
off to call the cops. While I write this I
can almost hear the voiceover from that
guy who does Unsolved Mysteries right
now, 3800 block West Beltline Blvd.
call if she had already moved it. Short
term memory loss, another side effect
of...um...of, uh...hmmm, oh yeah, 2800
block Schoolhouse Road.
29204
At 11:45 a.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, police
said an unknown man went buck wild,
was wilin’ out and actin’ a fool. The guy
was yelling, swearing, and threatening
people, then just up and ran way. The
report doest not specify if the man was
small, dressed all in green, or anything
about a pot of gold, 2200 block laurel
29205
A light-skinned man with a white base-
ball cap, blue jeans and a denim shirt
was seen stealing a DVD-R player,
from Office Depot worth $100.00. What
I want to know is how the hell he got
in and out of that store without those
“greeters” they have there bothering
the shit out of him the entire time, 100
block Harden Street
29209
Police responded to a call about a per-
son firing a gun off on their house. I
port doesn’t say, but we’re going ahead
guess it wasn’t Adderall, and this guy
didn’t just have a killer Nuclear Physics
exam the next day, 2100 block Devine
Street
29936
Cops say someone stole a license plate
off a car on March 27. You know that
happened to me once and I kept getting
tickets for not having a license plate for
weeks. It was a real big deal as I re-
member so this one hits way too close
to home. Of all the crime that went on in
Columbia this week, Mr. Meaner is giv-
ing this one the Gold Star, 4000 block
Broad River Road

29204
Members of the police force responded
to a woman who was stabbed around
9:00 p.m. March 27. EMS responded as
well and noted that the stab wound was
to the left side of her body. The 33-year-
old woman was treated on the scene
then released back into the wild, 130
block Harden Street
29204
A City of Columbia Parks and Recre-
ation employee reported finding a gun
while performing maintenance at Finlay
Park this week. Instead of selling it on
the black market or to one of the dozen
pawnshops within five miles, the em-
ployee turned the firearm over to police.
Street.
29205
Cops busted a Columbia resident with
cruelty to animals this week after they
warned him not to leave his dogs out
without water, shelter, a kennel or prop-
er tags. I say they tie this guy up to a
stump and let his starved dogs rip every
bit of skin and blood from his screaming
body then donate his bones as chew
toys to Pet’s Inc, 2500 block Bratton
Street
29205
Some idiot threw a ceramic bowl at
someone’s door. Of all things, yeah, 400
block Maple Street
29205
guess the realtor who has to appraise
this house next will be eating off the dol-
BAD HAIR DAY?
lar menu for a while, 100 block Spring-
way Drive
29212
Someone tried to buy two 42’ plasma
screen TVs and a Minolta digital cam-
era with a bad check this week. Guess
what, it worked! The check apparently
had been stopped in June of 2005, and
whoever didn’t notice that is out four
grand, 1100 block Bower Parkway
29212
A man broke another rman’s cheek-
bone when he punched him in the face. Come To A Full Service
Yeah, that’ll happen. The thing is, the
guy who got whacked says he doesn’t Salon For Hair
even know who the other guy is. Weird,

Someone give this man a raise. Or at
least promote him to “Hobo Removal”
on Sundays, 900 block Taylor Street
29204
A woman called the cops saying she
woke up and her DVD player was gone.
After a long talk with the police, the
woman told them that she was actu-
ally in the process of moving and that
on second thought; she couldn’t re-
A-28-year-old woman said she was
giving a man a ride home from a party
when he grabbed her arm. Scared, the
woman stopped the car and got out of
the vehicle. Unfortunately the man did
the same. He then chased her, knocked
her to the ground and choked her out.
Then he got up and ran off. Welcome to,
well...3100 block Two Notch Road
MARX
weird, weird, 800 block Harden Street
29265
A 23-year-old woman told officers that
someone keeps calling her and calling 2000 Blossom Street
her and calling her and won’t let up. Not (Next To Suncom in 5 Points)
only that, but the creep is also send-
ing her nasty e-mails and threatening
her. Normally we’d make a joke about 803-931-0910
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 Special 3 Rivers Music Festival Section
Three Rivers Waste
This time it’s personal
By Paul Blake
Last issue we wrote about the
relationship the 3 Rivers Music Festivals
Executive Director has with City
Council. According to Tameika Devine,
The Three Rivers Music & Heritage
Foundation received $400,000 in grant
monies this year alone. Why would city
council choose to spend this much of
your taxpayer money to fund a festival
that loses money every year?
Executive Director Virginia Bedford
wrote in an e-mail to a city council
candidate, “I was very involved in
Tameika [Devine’s] campaign in 2001-
2002”, and “We were able to raise
around $30,000 before the election and
the rest was raised after she won.”
“As for you thinking about running
for City Council against Tameika or Sam
or Coble...Several people you have
talked to called me and laughed about
it,” she added.
Last week, it appeared that Bedford
did not appreciate Columbia City Paper
running her comments and indicated
that she thought we had an axe to
grind since she chose not to advertise
in this newspaper. “Is this the way you
typically react when someone decides
not to advertise with you?” she wrote.
There could be a few reasons this
locally owned publication would be
upset at the misuse of funds that are
supposed to be for local economic
development. One of which is the
fact that this year the foundation used
money to purchase newspaper racks
from a company in Alabama, and has
put out its own festival guide versus
running the schedule in many other local
publications. But Bedford revealed her
lack of knowledge when it comes to
building something from the bottom up,
“It also seems somewhat unusual for
one person to wear so many hats—ad
salesman, writer, publisher. Are you the
editor too?”
Perhaps if Bedford understood
running a small business and city council
didn’t throw hundreds of thousands of
dollars of your money at the foundation
every year, the festival would have been
profitable its first year like Columbia
City Paper.
citypaper April 12, 2006 13
Columbia City Paper columnist, Will
Moredock, has a new book out! Available
at Amazon.com & local bookstores.
Banana Replublic:
A Year in the Heart of
Myrtle Beach
Bedford has promised City Council
“In contrast to the
family-friendly Myrtle
in the past that 50 percent of the budget
would be spent locally. Thanks to the Beach promoted by
state open records law, S.C. Code Ann.
sec. 30-4-10 to 30-4-165, we will find
their tourism council,
Moredock’s Myrtle
out the reality of the spending as well
as: Beach is populated by
- The total number of tickets sold to
fist-fighting city council
members, quasi-tran-
date, including VIP tickets, for the year
2006. sient strippers, over-
- The total amount of money provided
sexed golfers, profes-
sional body piercers,
by the City of Columbia to Three Rivers
Music and Heritage Foundation during live crucifixion re-enac-
all years of the foundation’s existence.
tors, and proponents of
present day Southern
- An itemized list of all monies
received by the foundation, including secession.”
payee/donor names.
- Savannah Morning
News
- The list of vendors for the years
2005 and 2006.
- All budgets and financial
information, including salary information
for staff and reimbursements for
volunteers.
So yes Virginia, the contributors at
this newspaper fill many roles. While we
realize we have ostracized ourselves
from hundreds of thousands of dollars
in advertising revenue from any future
City of Columbia events in this good old
boy network, it is money we’d rather not
have in our duty to bring information to
the public. Especially when it should be
just that, public information.
When I fill my additional roles this
week doing circulation, Web design and
layout, I’ll think of your cushy taxpayer
funded salary for putting on the three-
day event. A figure that we will share
with the public in the next issue of
Columbia City Paper. Make sure you
pick one up, it’s free.
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 14 Arts & Entertainment
Support Local Economic Development
By Attending One of These Events
April 21-23
Nickelodeon Theatre
showtimes nightly 7pm & 9pm
3:00pm matinee Saturday & Sunday
“The Boys of Baraka”
20 at risk teens leave home to attend an
experimental boarding school in Kenya,
East Africa. Sounds like an interst-
ing flick and you can buy beer at this
theatre.
April 21-23
Dreher Island State Park
803-364-4152
A water front tent site will spice up your
relationship. Or just drink beer around a
fire. For relaxing closer to downtown hit
the rocks on the river next to The River
Banks Zoo.
April 21
McDaniel’s Automotive Golf Classic
Benefiting Plametto Health South Caro-
lina Cancer Center
April 21-22
A Baker’s Dozen- Annual children’s sto-
rytelling festival. Richland County Public
Library. 803-929-3474
April 21-23
Disney Live!
Disney characters are performing live
in a one of a kind magic show. Friday
10:30am & 7pm; Saturday 10:30am,
1:30pm, & 4:30pm; Sunday 3pm. Call
Township Auditorium for details 803-
783-2222
Photo by Ed Goodwin
There’s plenty to do in the area South Carolina style,
as indicated in this photo taken last week in Irmo
April 21
Overnight Edventure. Childrens over-
night camping at Edventure, call 803-
799-3100 for details.
April 21
X-Box Tournament. Ages 12-17. Easto-
ver Park. Call 353-7137 to register.
April 22
Columbia Museum of Art presents Alfred
Stieglitz the “Father of Modern Pho-
tography” Admission is free thanks to
BlueCross BlueShield. 803-799-2810
April 22
The Palmetto Mastersingers’ Grand 25th
Anniversary Finale. Worl premiere work
composed for the Mastersigners by
Robert Eihorn. 7:30pm Koger Center
803-251-2222
April 22
Hike, Bike, Paddle and Run for Friends
of Harbison State Forest Weekend 2006.
A competitive trail run and mountain
bike race, nature walk with resident
naturalist Jerry Schrum, photogragphy
workshop, recycling workshop and
much more. All Day & Free. Harbison
State Forest 803-727-4244
April 23
Theatre South Carolina presents William
Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure.”
Sat. 8pm & Sunday 3pm. $14, Students/
Seniors $10. Longstreet Theatre 803-
777-4288
Might as well take a good look at the
crap before your money is flushed
By Alice Addertongue
Musical tastes will always be sub-
jective. And try as we might, no amount
of arguing, statistics, rabid zealotry or
even proper Kant-like exegesis can ex-
plain why we do or do not like some-
thing. As per that, to say this year’s
Three Rivers Music Festival “headlining
acts” suck some serious locker room
ass is without merit indeed. Such is the
nature of aesthetics. On the other hand,
incompetence is purely quantitative.
We really can judge with only the slight-
est margin of error the exact amount of
disorganization, ineptitude, and sheer
stupidity extant in a given local music
festival’s governing body. It’s scientific.
Whether or not we like the Little River
Band or know that Charmaine Neville
is not an actual Neville Brother, only a
lesser-talented younger sister, is irrel-
evant to the matter.
Furthermore, to assert that this lo-
cal music festival’s governing body is
inept – at least concerning the booking
of high-profile, high-quality musical acts
still worth a damn in 2006 – proof, in
whatever form, is needed. Cognizant of
these laws of logic, we offer the follow-
ing, hoping to prove those in charge of
the festival know extremely little about
the economics of attracting still relevant
big-name acts to Three Rivers, and ulti-
mately even less about good music:
Aretha Franklin:
Now that this diva is officially as
big as both her and Springsteen’s pink
Cadillacs put together, you really might
not want to miss this one. Seriously. Af-
ter all, she is liable to succumb to type
two diabetes – or maybe even explode
from her own self-importance – right
on the Blue Cross/Blue Shield stage.
So, if over-rated, over-inflated soul mu-
sic is your thing, have some dignity at
least and cover your face and doo-wap
on down Saturday night from 10:30 to
11:45 to watch the spectacle, and the
cellulite, unfold. If not, stay home and
watch PBS – Rilo Kiley is playing on
Austin City Limits.
Styx:
Here’s a riddle: What’s bigger than
a breadbox, worse than a 70s progres-
sive rock band, and playing Friday at
Three Rivers? Answer: A 70s progres-
sive rock band that was never progres-
sive and sure as hell wasn’t rock, play-
ing Sunday at 3 Rivers. After lead singer,
keyboard player, and accordionist Den-
nis DeYoung’s final departure in 1999
due to that age old rock ‘n’ roll malady
Columbia citypaper April 12, 2006
“chronic fatigue syndrome,” the remain-
ing clowns decided it was still a good
idea to play music in front of other peo-
ple. (Correction: There is probably noth-
ing worse than Styx playing Sunday at
Three Rivers.)
George Clinton & Parliament
While early-to-mid 90s west coast
gangsta rap gave this singularly talented
man/group a revival of sorts (if not a new
lease on vinyl life), his/their output since
has only proven what we should have al-
ready known – no matter the incarnation
– solo, Parliament, Funkadelic, P-Funk
All-Stars, really bad movies with David
Spade and Jeremy Piven) – George and
his cohorts are and will forever remain
a product of their time. At best, he is
an aural anachronism. At worst, he’s an
over-the-hill funk demigod who should
have hung up his vocoder and day-glos
years ago...way before PCU. Let’s just
hope he shows up this time. Or maybe
he’ll just get caught with crack cocaine
in the parking lot of the Circle K at three
in the morning. Again. And for that, we’ll
always love George.
Shinedown
Kudos to the committee for branch-
ing out of their AM-radio-only box with
this one... kind of. But with Shinedown’s
biggest hit thus far being an overwrought
cover of Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” – not
to mention this Jacksonville four-piece is
virtually indistinguishable in both sound
and look from every other contemporary
hard-rock outfit sucking it up on 93.5
– perhaps they should have ventured
out a little bit further on the dial. To beg
the same the question that Shinedown
asks in song we here “dare you” to walk
on down to the State Museum parking
lot Friday night. We triple-dog-dare you,
‘bo.
Edwin McCain
It’s nice to see Columbia welcome
back Greenville native Edwin McCain to
the Palmetto State. Nice to see, not so
much to hear. But no matter how you
feel personally about Hootie, Stretch
Armstrong, or The Marshall Tucker
Band, South Carolina is and probably
will always be fiercely loyal to its own.
And who knows, perhaps McCain’s new
album Lost in America scheduled for
release later this month will have some
good stuff on it. Bottom line though, this
is one native son South Carolina should
funnel out of state just as fast as this
fest’s money.
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Arts & Entertainment Columbia citypaper April 12 , 2006 15

Thursday, April 13 Thomas Jonak New Brookland Tavern

Zach Fowler Friday, April 21 122 State St., West Cola.
New Brookland Tavern “One Foot in the Gutter Tour”
122 State St., West Cola. Wild Wing Café New Brookland Tavern The Autumn Offering
“Take No Prisoners Tour’ 1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola. 122 State St., West Cola. Hell Within
River City High Rik Cribb & the Problems 6PM The Human Abstract
Clearview Kills Distress Case Conjure
Sleepaway Sunday, April 16 10PM
“Evilution: Goth Night” Monday, April 24
Headliners New Brookland Tavern
700 Gervais St., Cola. 122 State St., West Cola. Headliners New Brookland Tavern
Kindablu w/ DJ Prince Ice The Skuds 700 Gervais St., Cola. 122 State St., West Cola.
Conflicto Pain In Life Still Remains
Art Bar Sick Sick Sick Number One Contender Nodes of Ranvier
1211 Park St., Cola. The Scallywags Chamber 6 If Hope Dies
Boxing Day Demiricous
Elevado Jammin Java
Atlaegos Tuesday, April 18 1530 Main St., Cola. Tuesday, April 25
Eric Skelton
Jammin Java New Brookland Tavern Dean Fields Headliners
1530 Main St., Cola. 122 State St., West Cola. 700 Gervais St., Cola.
Ward Williams Primo Noctis Wild Wing Café Family Force 5
Natasha Rorrer Legato 1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola. Fourty Acres
Josephine Poolstick
Ragdoll Wednesday, April 26
Wild Wing Café Saturday, April 22
1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola. Wednesday, April 19 New Brookland Tavern
Sol Driven Train New Brookland Tavern 122 State St., West Cola.
New Brookland Tavern 122 State St., West Cola. “Non Stop Hip Hop Live”
Friday, April 14 122 State St., West Cola. Diemona
6 PM Escape This Headliners
New Brookland Tavern Secret Lives! From Idle Hands 700 Gervais St., Cola.
122 State St., West Cola. Gods A Collision With Hope Flickerstick
Blowfly Glory of This Parklife
Antiseen Valeyna Art Bar Namedropper
10 PM 1211 Park St., Cola.
Wild Wing Café “Non Stop Hip Hop Live” American Gun Thursday, April 27
1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola. New York Disco Villains
Basikly Thursday, April 20 The Cobgurns New Brookland Tavern
122 State St., West Cola.
Saturday, April 15 New Brookland Tavern Headliners Unknown Hinson
New Brookland Tavern 122 State St., West Cola. 700 Gervais St., Cola. Gorilla Mask
122 State St., West Cola. Two Gallants Needtobreathe
6 PM I9 Art Bar
The Heist and the Accomplice Art Bar Madison Fair 1211 Park St., Cola.
Orgone Accumulator 1211 Park St., Cola. The Dirty Lowdowns
The Safe and Sound The Black Domina Jammin Java Sky Full Of People
9 PM Le Horla 1530 Main St., Cola. The South Holes
Conjure The Ice Caps Nathan Poole & Matthew Kahler
Shiloh Jammin Java
Seeking Eternity Headliners Kelly’s 1530 Main St., Cola.
700 Gervais St., Cola. FREE Fesival 10am-2am Lucas Reynolds
Art Bar “IT Magazine Party” 10am - 2am Brett Dennen
1211 Park St., Cola. Going Commando Noon TBA
I Am The World Trade Center 2pm 88 Rewind
Boulevard Jammin Java 5pm Loc Ness Johnny
The Specs 1530 Main St., Cola. 8pm Josh Roberts
Ryan Horne & Tyler James 10pm The South
Headliners
700 Gervais St., Cola. Wild Wing Café Wild Wing Café
Beat Junction 1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola. 1150 Bower Pkwy., Cola.
AI One Tokyo Joe Cookie
Jammin Java Sunday, April 23
1530 Main St., Cola.
Columbia citypaper April 12, 2006
EUROPEAN VACATION
COLUMBIA S VERY OWN POSI-HARDCORE HEROES, STRETCH ARM
STRONG, LEAVE THE PALMETTO STATE IN SEARCH OF TEA, CRUM-
PETS, AND MEXICAN FOOD (FOR THE SEVENTH OR EIGHTH TIME)
“Ve Ver more than jus a tour date. Do Ver more dan
jus a zong. Ve zweat and zang togeza and dat help us
to carry on.”
In his best German accent Stretch Arm Strong gui-
tarist David Sease sings to the newest member of the
band, Glenn Calder (replacing JC Lopez) and
European tour fill-in bass player Isaac Stone outside of
the band’s practice space in Lexington, South
Carolina.
It’s less than 24 hours before the Columbia band’s
flight leaves for yet another trip to Europe and Sease
jokes about how it sounds when a German crowd
sing’s “For the Record” off of the band’s 2001 release
A Revolution Transmission.
Stretch has been touring on their fourth full-length
and major label debut, Free At Last for about six
months and is once again reaching out to the
European crowd who at one time had difficulties even
getting their hands on their records. And for part of this
trip they’ll be playing in support of MTV darlings Story
of the Year.
Stretch Arm Strong is having trouble remembering
how many times they've packed their bags and left the
Palmetto state for a European tour.
“I think it’s the seventh or eighth trip,” says Sease.
Singer Chris McLane responds the exact same way
when asked how many times Stretch has crossed the
Atlantic to spread their posi-hardcore message and
sounds.
“It keeps getting better each time. The shows are
really good and the kids are really supportive. I feel
very comfortable in Europe and I used to feel real out
of place. It was very overwhelming at first,” says
McLane.
Even though they’ll be an ocean apart and over 3,000
miles away from their hometown, the European clubs
tend to try their best to make touring bands feel at
home.
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“You don’t play a show in Europe without having
some sort of accommodations set up for you. After the
show [promoters] take you to the hostile or the hotel.
They wouldn't even consider you playing without get-
ting you fed and having a place to sleep. It’s so unlike
the US where bands are on their own and the promot-
ers don’t care about the bands getting anything to eat,”
says McLane.
“You don’t have to get a hotel or beg somebody to let
you crash on their floor. [Some clubs] have an actual
apartment for bands. They take care of you from start
to finish. A lot of clubs even provide you with a back
line and you really don’t even have to have cabinets to
play through,” says Sease.
“You play in the venue downstairs where you get fed
and then there’s apartments upstairs with showers and
bunkbeds and breakfast in the morning. It’s a pretty
amazing deal,” says McLane.
One thing the band will miss out on while in Europe is
they’re eternal quest for Mexican cuisine. In over a
decade of touring Stretch has developed an appetite
for food from our southwestern neighbors.
“It is almost impossible to find Mexican food in
Europe. When I’m in Europe I try to find curry or cheap
falafel,” says Sease.
“We just started going crazy for it. We’ve got meat
eaters in the band and guys that don’t eat meat and
with Mexican food everybody can find a happy medi-
um,” says McLane, “It got to the point where we would
drive out of the way just to find good Mexican food. And
we would try to find the most authentic place without
fear of getting completely sick with food poisoning.”
Stretch Arm Strong is poised to make the step where
they stop being that hardcore band that deserves a ton
of success and attention to the band that actually
receives it. They’ve put in their time and paid more
than the usual amount of dues.
“The one thing that we have is dedication on and off
THE WHIPPING POST
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
BY SEAN RAYFORD
the road. You’re never not on Stretch Arm Strong time.
You’ve got something going on all the time one way or
the other and we just do what it takes,” says Sease,
“This past weekend we moved my much more wealthy
brother. Me, John, and Chris moved him for some side
cash. We take jobs doing whatever- painting, booking
shows, and at bars. We do whatever we can do to
keep this going and it’s not all about the money but you
gotta make money to keep doing it.”
Before recording Free at Last, Sease and McLane
traveled to the Big Apple seeking the auditory help of
Melissa Croft, a vocal coach who has worked with
Every Time I Die, Madball, Cradle of Filth, and other
ruthlessly loud bands.
“I learned how to warm up my voice before we play.
It used to just be I would step up on stage and start
screaming right out of the gate. Sometimes that would
work but on a five week tour my voice would work for
three or four shows and then it would be shot for a
week,” says Sease.
“I was very nervous about going into [the vocal ses-
sions] because I was afraid she was going to tell me I
was a terrible singer and ask what are you doing? You
can’t do this,” says McLane, “She helps you take what
you’re able to do and do it better, do it consistently, and
do it without hurting your voice and wrecking your
throat.”
With the recent departures of bassist Jeremy Jeffers
and guitarist JC Lopez the face of the band is undergo-
ing some small changes, but Stretch continues like the
eternal hardcore machine that it is. Twenty four year-
old Glen Calder (guitar) has permanently joined the
band of veterans and recalls just being another face in
the crowd at shows.
“I definitely remember seeing them quite often at
2758 [Rosewood] and just rocking out and a few years
later i’m playing with them- so it’s mind blowing. Its fun
though I’m having a really good time,” says Calder.
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The Whipping Post
BAND OF
HORSES
Everything All
the Time
January 24, 2006
Sub Pop Records
The first time I heard Band of Horses I was under
the influence of hard drugs. In the past when I have
swooned over a band while on the booger sugar, it
took as long as the shakes to kick in before I realized
that I don’t really like the didgeridoo or dueling citars.
But, after the Band of Horses show, I woke up
clutching their EP in the fetal position. So I put it in
while I nursed my headache, and it was still awe-
some.
Their new album, Everything All the Time, is also
exceptional. It’s the kind of indie rock that is both as
pretty as a vacation floating through the Milky Way
and as thoughtful as a requiem read by a weeping ex-
lover.
And they bring in several instruments like banjo and
pedal steel that makes their sound spill out in every
direction.
Vocalist Benjamin Bridwell lived here once and went
to Irmo High School. So if his echoing high-pitched
lyrics reminded you of someone you once knew, you
aren’t losing your mind.
There are also two other very interesting Carolina
boys who grew up in the humidity and confusion of
Columbia: Sam Beam from Iron and Wine and yours
truly.
The latter of which is infinitely more well known and
acclaimed. I went on to coin such phrases as “BAM!
Nova Scotia” and “Sweetheart, I wanna touch you
where you pee, while you pee.” Oh, sorry.
I digress. Bridwell’s vocals actually remind me a lit-
tle of Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. Bye now!
-Dewberry Mills
YOU PROBABLY MISSED...
LIMBECK
Let Me Come
Home
August 9, 2005
Doghouse
Limbeck’s Let Me Come Home is going be the
soundtrack for a breakthrough documentary project of
an up-and-coming filmmaker as he (or she) follows
minor league baseball teams like the Lansing Lugnuts,
the Savannah Sand Gnats, and the Albuquerque
Isotopes as they chase their big league dreams across
American interstates.
Crammed into converted Greyhound busses we’ll fol-
low along as the teams visit cities like Altoona,
Pennsylvania; Batavia, New York; and Orem, Utah.
There will be plenty of broken hearts and dreams but
the tunes will get the fellas across the American land-
scape and cement memories that players will tell their
grandchildren years down the road.
Let Me Come Home (co-produced by Gary Louris of
the Jayhawks) is a genuine snapshot of carefree pop
oriented west coast alt-country for fans of Wilco, Big
Star, and Across a Wire era Get Up Kids.
“People Don’t Change” is a bouncing feel good intro-
duction that quickly inspires foot taps, head nods, a
desire for Louisiana riverbed and a twelve-pack of
Pabst Blue Ribbon.
“Parking Lot,” a sing-a-long narrative of all too many
club and VFW shows full of positive atmosphere and
good times, but lacking a little in swell music. Capturing
the pre-drinking age crowd experience Singer Robb
MacLean pipes: ”The venue is killing my ear drums/
the band that’s playing is a bit too much/ The first band
was so optimistic/ I’m in the parking lot/ Everyone’s in
the parking lot.”
I wonder who has the best hair in said parking lot.
-Sean Rayford
citypaper April 12, 2006
By Will Moredock
Since 1980, South Carolina has
held an exalted place as the “Gateway
to Dixie” in that quadrennial marathon
that begins with the Iowa caucuses
and ends at the White House.
In that year, South Carolina native
son and GOP strategist Lee Atwater
persuaded the state Republican Party
executive committee to pull South
Carolina out of the nine-state Big South
primary and hold the state GOP primary
on the Saturday before the Big South.
The thinking was that South Carolina
would be the bellwether for Dixie and
show other white Southerners how to
vote.
That year, Reagan won a landslide
in South Carolina, swept through the
Big South primaries three days later
and was on his way to the White
House. The Palmetto State has held the
second GOP primary in the nation ever
since, and no Republican has won his
party’s presidential nomination without
first winning in South Carolina.
This has given South Carolina
a special relationship with the
presidency. Ronald Reagan, George
Bush I and George Bush II have all
felt beholden to the state and have
shown their appreciation by making
numerous trips here during their White
House incumbency. The state GOP
The Presidential Primary
South Carolina may lose its role as kingmaker
has used the attention as a party-
building tool, turning this into one of
the most staunchly Republican states
in the nation.
Each four years this little state,
with its historic inferiority complex
and its memories of lost grandeur,
becomes the center of the universe, as
Republican candidates swarm in like
locusts and the national media follow.
For white South Carolinians, it’s been
the greatest surge of testosterone
since that memorable morning in
1861, when those shots were fired on
Fort Sumter.
Now all that glory may soon be
over. The Republican Party of Michigan
announced last week that it wants to
schedule its presidential primary to
take place on the same day as South
Carolina’s. We would have to share
the political visitations and the media
spotlight with a much larger state.
This should give every South
Carolinian – indeed, every American
– occasion to ponder the awesome
power that has been placed in the
hands of the white population of this
little state.
Anyone who has read John
Brody’s Bad Boy – The Life and Politics
of Lee Atwater, knows that Atwater
was a restless and tortured soul, who
epitomized this restless and tortured
state. And his bare-knuckled, hit-
and-run, smear-and-innuendo style of
politics could be said to epitomize the
politics of South Carolina.
More than creating the early
primary in South Carolina, Atwater’s
most important political tactic was
bringing Christian evangelicals and
fundamentalists, with their sexually-
obsessed “family values,” into the fold
of mainstream Republican politics. It
took a diabolical genius to make allies
of the likes of Bob Jones III and Rupert
Murdoch, but the strange alliance
has held for a quarter century and
has transformed America’s politics,
government and national priorities.
And it gave us George W. Bush.
Think back to that February in 2000.
In a stunning upset, Sen. John McCain
defeated Texas Gov. George W. Bush
in the New Hampshire primary. One
more defeat and Bush’s presidential
campaign would be over.
Within 12 hours after the votes
were tallied in New Hampshire, Bush
was on the campus of Bob Jones
University, in Greenville, reminding
right-wing Christians that he was one
of them, a born-again, ready to take on
abortion and gay rights, ready to fight
for prayer in public schools.
Before white Republican voters
went to the polls the next Tuesday,
they started receiving mysterious
phone calls: Were they aware that
Sen. McCain’s wife was a drug addict?
Were they aware that the senator was
Viewpoints 17
mentally unstable as a result of his
seven-year incarceration as a POW in
North Vietnam? Were they aware that
the senator had an illegitimate black
daughter? All the insinuations were
false (and the last one bitterly ironic, in
light of later revelations about the late
Strom Thurmond), but they derailed
McCain’s candidacy in South Carolina
and sent Bush to the White House.
Now we have a president who
wallows with the Christian fundies,
does not believe in evolution or
global warming, who opposes
stem cell research, who makes war
promiscuously, who wiretaps illegally
and who turns our natural resources
over to the corporate robber barons.
And to look at the bumper stickers
around this town, the white people of
South Carolina probably would do it
over again if they had the chance.
George W. Bush is their gift to
America.
It was a cruel trick of fate that
transformed the most politically and
socially dysfunctional state in America
into the national kingmaker.
Michigan’s decision to challenge
our presidential primary with its own
means that South Carolina will lose
its moment in the spotlight. Thank
God! Every time this state gets a little
attention, it makes a fool of itself.
Viewpoints Columbia citypaper April 12, 2006 18

State on path to rebuild Commerce muscle

By Andy Brack
The state Department
Commerce, South Carolina’s agency
of development and business expansion.
The state has virtually eliminated
we are moving in the right direction.” Free Real
to bring new and better jobs to the program staff to work proactively Added Hal Johnson, who heads

state, has been stuck for the last few
years.
But the department, once feared
with South Carolina businesses,”
said the report by Ticknor and
Associates (http://www.scchamber.
net/scccdocs/HomePage%5CTickno
Estate &
the Upstate Alliance and serves as
president of the state’s economic
developers’ association, “We have
lost our edge and we are getting it

by job recruiters from other states,
may be on its way back after budget
cuts and management that left it a
shell of its former self.
“The Department of Commerce,
in my opinion, in the last several years
has been about decimated. They
have not been effective at all,” said
powerful Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Hugh Leatherman, R-
Florence. “I’m hopeful with Joe
Taylor coming in as new Secretary of
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In the 1990s under the leadership
of the late Gov. Carroll A. Campbell
Jr., Commerce was a shining light
that aggressively recruited site
selection teams looking for places
to put new plants. From Campbell’s
term to that of Gov. Jim Hodges, state
funding hovered in the $13 million to
$15 million range annually (figures in
2004 dollars), although it shot to the
equivalent of $40 million in the last
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back. Joe Taylor is the right person
to make it happen.”
But it is going to take time,
Leatherman admits - - time to rebuild
the team, time to renew relationships,
time to undo damage that has been
done.
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In the meantime, “South Carolina
will continue to suffer,” he said. postlocal.
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Commerce, he’ll bring some life back
to it. The General Assembly is going
to give the Department of Commerce
what we feel is needed.”
In the current House-passed
budget, the Department is slated to
receive an infusion of an extra $17.2
million to bring its budget to $27.6
million. While some $10.6 million of
the money is non-recurring, which
means it won’t be around the following
year, it’s clear there’s a new focus on
shoring up things at Commerce.
Many would say it’s about time.
com
year of Gov. David Beasley. Brack is publisher of S.C. Statehouse
Report. He can be reached at
During the tenure of Gov. Mark brack@statehousereport.com.
Sanford, the state had three bad
economic years, which led to big
agency cuts almost across the board.
Commerce’s funding dropped from
about $14.8 million in Hodges’ last
year to about $10 million this year - -
a 50 percent cut.
While money may not solve all
problems, common-sense business
strategy will tell you that there has to
be enough of a staff around to sell the
state.

The state’s per capita income is Industrial site selection teams

82 percent of the national average. It
has lost 83,000 manufacturing jobs
since 2000. The unemployment rate
is one of the highest in the nation.
“The South Carolina Department
of Commerce is no longer the effective
competitive force that it once was
when it had greater resources and a
better ability to sustain cutting-edge
business services program,” according
to a January study commissioned by
the state’s business community.
The report criticized the
department’s inadequate research
staff, overstretched business
recruiters and brittle marketing arm.
“South Carolina has not sustained
proactive economic development
marketing to support prospect
“have not heard from our state
in a period of two to three years.
Recognize, that is an indicator of the
aggressiveness or size of your team,”
said David Ginn, president and CEO of
the Charleston Regional Development
Alliance.
Economic development officials
across the state are putting their faith in
Taylor, a Columbia businessman with
a solid record as a salesman. Taylor
was not available for an interview for
this column.
“We’ve got to aggressively and
with passion, market, promote and
sell South Carolina as a great place
to do business,” said Joe King,
economic development director of
Florence County. “I don’t think we are
as aggressive as we once were, but
 citypaper April 12, 2006
PANDERING TO THE POOR
NEW YORK--When the
hated despots of nations like Saudi
Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their
countries’ treasuries, transfer their
oil wealth to personal Swiss bank
accounts and use the rest to finance
(in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist
extremists, American politicians praise
them as trusted friends and allies.
But when a democratically elected
populist president uses Venezuela’s
oil profits to lift poor people out of
poverty, they accuse him of pandering.
As the United States and Europe
continue their shift toward a Darwinomic
model where rapacious corporations
accrue bigger and bigger profits
while workers become poorer and
poorer, the socialist economic model
espoused by President Hugo Chávez
has become wildly popular among
Latin Americans tired of watching
corrupt right-wing leaders enrich
themselves at their expense. Left-of-
center governments have recently won
power in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Chávez’s uncompromising rhetoric
matches his politics, but what’s really
driving the American government
and its corporate masters crazy is
that he has the cash to back it up.
In their desperate frenzy to
destroy Chávez, state-controlled
media is resorting to some of the
most transparently and hilariously
hypocritical talking points ever. In the
April 4th New York Times Juan Forero
repeated the trope that Chávez’s use
of oil revenues is unfair--even cheating
somehow: “With Venezuela’s oil
revenues rising 32 percent last year,”
the paper exclaimed, “Mr. Chávez has
been subsidizing samba parades in
Brazil, eye surgery for poor Mexicans
and even heating fuel for poor
families from Maine to the Bronx to
Philadelphia. By some estimates, the
spending now surpasses the nearly
$2 billion Washington allocates to pay
for development programs and the
drug war in western South America.”
Chávez, the story continued,
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The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism
By Tedd Rall
is poised to become “the next schools are sprouting like weeds. more than twice the approval rating
Fidel Castro, a hero to the masses Loaded language unworthy of a junior by Americans of Bush. He roundly
who is intent on opposing every high school newspaper is the norm in defeated an attempt to recall him. So
move the United States makes, coverage of the Venezuelan president. why is Washington lecturing Caracas?
but with an important advantage.” “Chavez insists his government is “The [Venezuelan] government
Heavens be! A rich country democratic and accuses Washington is making billions of dollars [from
using its wealth to spread influence of conspiring against him,” the San its state oil company] and spending
abroad! What God would permit Jose Mercury-News wrote on April 3rd. them on houses, education,
such an abomination? Notice, by the Why the “insists”? No international medical care,” notes CNN. And--
way, that the United States funds observer doubts that Venezuela, where gasp--people’s lives are improving.
“development programs.” Oh, and the man who won the election gets to What if the rest of us noticed? No
it’s a “drug war”--not a bombing be president, is at least as democratic wonder Chávez has to go.
campaign against leftist insurgents as the United States. The 2002 coup
who oppose South America’s few plotters gathered beforehand at (Ted Rall is the editor of “Attitude 3: The
remaining pro-U.S. right-wing regimes. the White House. Surely the Merc New Subversive Online Cartoonists,”
Quoted by the Times--which could grant Chávez’s “accusation” an anthology of webcartoons
editorialized in favor of and ran as fact. The paper continued: “He which will be published in May.)
flattering profiles of the right-wing says the United States was behind a
oligarchs who attempted to overthrow short-lived 2002 coup, an allegation
Chávez in a 2002 coup attempt--is that U.S. officials reject.” He also letters@columbiacitypaper.com
“critic” John Negroponte, whose day happens to be right, though it’s hard
job happens to be as Bush’s Director to tell by reading that sentence.
of National Intelligence. Negroponte Eighty-two percent of Venezuelans
complained that Chávez is “spending think Chávez is doing a good job. That’s
considerable sums involving himself
in the political and economic life
of other countries in Latin America
and elsewhere, this despite the very
Lonely Breakfast?
real economic development and
social needs of his own country.”
Pot, kettle, please discuss the $1 Meet The One @ postlocal.com
billion a week we’re wasting on Iraq
while people die for lack of medical
care and schools fall apart right here Totally
in America. Maybe Chávez should
have found a better use for the money
he spent on Rio’s Carnival parade.
On the other hand, at least it didn’t
go to bombs and torture camps.
Televangelist Pat Robertson’s
2005 call to assassinate Chávez was
criticized only mildly by establishment
media, and primarily on the basis
that murdering heads of state
violates a U.S. law. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice accuses Chávez
of a “Latin brand of populism that
has taken countries down the drain.”
Which ones? Certainly not Venezuela
itself, where a double-digit-GDP boom
leads the region and new houses, Free Personals!
$10 billion per year is banked for
future anti-poverty programs and
20 citypaper April 12, 2006 Horoscopes

Homeless Man Angered by Offer to Buy Brick WAKE UP

By Rosemarie Cox
Imagine walking through Five Points
with your buddies, ready to begin your
night out on the town, when suddenly
the homeless man on the corner
recognizes you, and you know exactly
what he’s about to say.
“Every time he sees me he yells at
me,” said Chuck Winter.
The 25-year-old Columbia native
has run ins with one of the homeless
men who frequent the Five Points
area about every other weekend. This
particular man wears a red, yellow,
and green beanie over his head full of
dreadlocks, and usually pushes around
a shopping cart. He is a relatively well-
known homeless man among USC
students.
“It could be one of two ways he
started to dislike me,” Winter said.
During their first run in with each
other, Winter walked out of Bar None
to find the man lying on the sidewalk, a
frequent resting spot for him. He asked
Chuck Winter for some change and
Winter obliged.
“I said sure and threw him my
change, but also in it was my Chapstick
which I’m addicted to.” Winter said. “So
when it fell in front of him I snatched it
up and he got mad.”
Five Points is renowned for unique
interactions with the local homeless
people. USC student Ed Tilden also
had a run in with this particular man.
“He offered to sell me liquor in an
old Coke bottle,” Tilden said. “He said
he made it himself and I could have it
for $5”
Tilden’s experience did not hold
the lasting effects of Winter’s though.
Winter had a second run in with the
homeless man in June.
Once again, the man asked Winter
for some change, and Winter offered
him $5.
“He had a brick in his shopping
cart,” Winter said. “So I told him I would
give him five bucks for the brick.”
Winter explained that he didn’t
actually want the brick, but that he felt if
he was giving the man money, he should
get something in return. The homeless
man did not agree, and told Winter he
“ain’t getting no brick from me.”
“He told me I was crazy, he was
keeping his brick, and that I was white,”
said Chuck Winter. WITH
To this day, the homeless man
recognizes Chuck and lets him know
that he does too.
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“One of the last times he yelled at
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laughed at by four young girls who were
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HOROSCOPES by Governor Mark Sanford*

Gemini Your social life will suffer an irreparable blow Scorpio
when you download the “Wet Flatulence” ringtone to your It’s wildly irrational, but true: your girlfriend will secretly
mobile phone. punish you for something you did in one of her dreams the
night before.

Cancer Your child seems to carry the weight of

the world on her shoulders. In actuality, she carries the
weight of a giant disgusting brown mole. To bypass future
psychiatric bills, invest in a bottle of peroxide, some garden
shears, and plenty of children’s aspirin ...if you know what
I mean.
Sagittarius
Don’t let Spring hay fever ruin your upcoming job interview.
Human Resources departments are known for their
compassion and will understand when you show up in
goggles and a surgical mask.

Aries
Think of your home as your own little spa. After work,
spend some quiet time fully immersed in a tomato-
based soak garnished with lemon. Afterwards, invite the
neighbors over for some of your pasta with special sauce.
Taurus
Please, keep your friend from writing one more paige
of hack poetry. Also, let her know the haggard goth
cheerleader shtick is corny and that blog entries don’t
count as “ten years of journalism experience.”
Leo
You will feel guilty after drunkenly scribbling a crude joke on
your receipt at the bar. George is actually one of your new
favorite bartenders and you hope that he can find it in his
cruel heart to forgive you.
Virgo
A bender in Vegas will screech to a halt in a Disney-
themed chapel. During a brief flash of sobriety, you will
pull back the veil to kiss your new bride, and only then,
in that lighting, will you notice that she bears a striking
resemblance to Neil Young.
Libra
You read a news story on illegal campaign contributions
in The State on April 8. It is eerily similar to an article you
read in Columbia City Paper on March 31. Your significant
other is much like The State Newspaper, you can’t figure
out if they are in bed with someone else or if they are just
altogether clueless.
Capricorn
Tragically, you will fall victim to frat boy summer fashion.
Your family will silently endure your shaggy Frankenstein
hairdo squeezed under a pre-frayed ball cap, your pastel
upturned collars, and designer flip-flops. A homoerotic act
with a broom handle is not “hazing” and sorry, fellas, those
Polo shirts aren’t “salmon-colored,” they’re f#%king pink!
Aquarius
The novelty of your non-returnable unicorn wall calendar
will wear off by late April, yet you will suffer it for the next
eight months out of spite.
Pisces
You will enter the bathroom to --WOAH, Sorry! Pisces
should’ve knocked first!
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22 Advice
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
I have a hard time believing that a cynical guy
like you doesn’t occasionally see some actor
on TV yammering about his politics and think
“Stick to what you’re good at and shut the f#!k
up about politics.” You’re becoming that ac-
tor. I don’t give a f#!k about your politics, and I
don’t want to read about them every time I look
at Savage Love.
Keep It To Yourself
You can’t write about sex and avoid politics—
not in America, at any rate, and now, thanks to
Stephen Harper’s minority government, not in
Canada either. Believe me, KITY, I would love
to see sex and politics decoupled, but your fel-
low conservatives—actually, wait. Why should
I come to my own defense when a genuine
New York Jew wants to do the job?
I have a comment for these people who write
in to tell you to keep out of politics and “stick
with d#!ks”: Basically, f#!k them. How can one
possibly separate politics from sexuality today?
There is a battle being waged for the heart and
soul of this country and this conflict involves is-
sues on which you are something of an expert:
young people and safer sex; the prevention
of disease; homosexuality; and the incredibly
Columbia citypaper April 12, 2006
important question of reproductive rights. So,
keep up the good work, Dan. And let me say
once again: F#!k them!
New York Jew Commie Bastard
Thank you, NYJCB. And to close this week’s
column, a little bidness to attend to...
Some trannies, she-males, lady-boys, X-
Men, and the men who love them were upset
about last week’s column. You can read their
thoughts by going to http://thestranger.com/
savage/shemale.
Straight Rights Update: Black Jack, Missouri,
is currently deciding whether or not it will issue
an occupancy permit to an unmarried straight
couple with three kids. (Occupancy permit?
Who’d guess you need one to move to Black
Jack, MO? Black Jack should be begging peo-
ple to move there.) Currently the couple does
not meet Black Jack’s definition of “family,” and
they’ve already been denied their occupancy
permit once. If the city decides to deny them
an occupancy permit, the couple will have to
move or marry under duress. So let’s just add
forced marriages to that long list of right-wing
assaults on heterosexual freedom, shall we?
And to Mike C., who wrote in a few weeks ago
to tell me that he was glad that conservatives
he voted for were running the world and not
perverts like me: Brian J. Doyle, Deputy Press
Secretary for the U.S. Department of Home-
land Security, was arrested last week for so-
liciting sex from someone he believed to be a
14-year-old girl. Hmm... is a malicious castra-
tion in order?
mail@savagelove.net
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