Eight-year-old Olivia McConnell wrote her state representatives to suggest that since South Carolina doesn’t currently have a state fossil, it should be given one. Harmless, right?
The third grader at Carolina Academy in Lake City wrote a letter to her state lawmakers, Rep. Ridgeway, and Sen. Johnson, (Democrats of course!) and asked them to sponsor a bill to make the wooly mammoth the official state fossil.
BTW, South Carolina has 50 official state symbols, including a state heritage horse, a state migratory marine mammal and a state beverage, so you would think, no biggie . .
The bill passed the House with overwhelming support but that's when Senator Mike Fair smelled a chance at teavangelical red meat, and so objected to the bill for “religious reasons.”
But wait, there's more . . .
Sen Fair has compared the President to Osama Bin Laden, helped to block funding for a rape crisis center, and blocked evolution from the state’s science standards, AND NOW co-sponsored a bill amendment on the state fossil with another Senator named Bryant.
Wait for it . . .
Sen Bryant told The Daily Beast, “I think it’s a good idea to designate the mammoth as the state fossil, I don’t have a problem with that. I just felt like it’d be a good thing to acknowledge the creator of the fossils.”
Now, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell has amended the amendment to describe the Columbian Mammoth as “created on the Sixth Day with the beasts of the field.”
Ready for the icing? LTGUV Glenn McConnell, is about to become the new PRESIDENT of the College of Charleston, after the Trustees threw out recommended candidates.
Join me in calling for Olivia's Bill to get passed?
LTGUV's phone number: (803) 734-2080
Sen Mike Fair's number: (803) 212-6420.
Sen Bryants phone: (803) 212-6100.
Show 'em some 21st century love! I have already called.
Thanks!