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From the Sun News at 5:05 PM today:
Posted on Mon, Jan. 11, 2010
Political action committees behind anti-McBride campaign
Lorena Anderson
landerson@thesunnews.com
Steve Chapman, owner of the Island Vista Resort, says he and a large group of other local businesses and residents are responsible for three political action committees that formed last fall to defeat former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride in his bid to return to office.
“We became concerned, and we felt the people serving us were doing a pretty good job,” Chapman said Monday. “We are not a bunch of political animals, but we felt we couldn’t just sit on the sidelines and do nothing.”
He and the others formed Good Government for Myrtle Beach, which many people will remember as the political action committee that released fliers and TV commercials about McBride’s eight years as mayor, and started the Web site TheRealMarkMcBride.com. They hired Starboard Communications, a Lexington political consulting firm to handle all the campaign materials.
They also formed Local Residents for Tourism and MB Residents for Lower Taxes.
The three action committees, which are all filing their campaign disclosure forms this week with the S.C. Ethics Commission, did not donate directly to the incumbent candidates Mayor John Rhodes and Councilmen Wayne Gray, Chuck Martino and Randal Wallace. Chapman also said the incumbents were not told about any of the fliers, ads or other campaign materials that were put together by Chapman said he has known McBride for years and said the campaign wasn’t personal. But he became incensed when he heard McBride’s stand against the 1 percent tourism development tax and his suggestion that the money collected be sent back to Columbia for the state to dole out.
“I wasn’t easy. I don’t like this,” Chapman said of the campaign to make sure McBride didn’t take the mayor’s seat. “But all of us felt it would not be a good thing to have him representing us again.”
Among the donors listed for Good Government for Myrtle Beach: Compass Cove Resort, the Sea Captain’s House, the Bay View Resort, Realtor Barry Thigpen, Planning Commissioner Eddie Rodelsperger, the Landmark Resort, Seaport Village in Garden City, Caravelle Properties, David Brittain, and dozens of others. That PAC alone raised $118,290, the filing documents show.
McBride could not be reached for comment Monday.
Read more in Tuesday's edition of The Sun News.
From the Sun News at 5:05 PM today:
Posted on Mon, Jan. 11, 2010
Political action committees behind anti-McBride campaign
Lorena Anderson
landerson@thesunnews.com
Steve Chapman, owner of the Island Vista Resort, says he and a large group of other local businesses and residents are responsible for three political action committees that formed last fall to defeat former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride in his bid to return to office.
“We became concerned, and we felt the people serving us were doing a pretty good job,” Chapman said Monday. “We are not a bunch of political animals, but we felt we couldn’t just sit on the sidelines and do nothing.”
He and the others formed Good Government for Myrtle Beach, which many people will remember as the political action committee that released fliers and TV commercials about McBride’s eight years as mayor, and started the Web site TheRealMarkMcBride.com. They hired Starboard Communications, a Lexington political consulting firm to handle all the campaign materials.
They also formed Local Residents for Tourism and MB Residents for Lower Taxes.
The three action committees, which are all filing their campaign disclosure forms this week with the S.C. Ethics Commission, did not donate directly to the incumbent candidates Mayor John Rhodes and Councilmen Wayne Gray, Chuck Martino and Randal Wallace. Chapman also said the incumbents were not told about any of the fliers, ads or other campaign materials that were put together by Chapman said he has known McBride for years and said the campaign wasn’t personal. But he became incensed when he heard McBride’s stand against the 1 percent tourism development tax and his suggestion that the money collected be sent back to Columbia for the state to dole out.
“I wasn’t easy. I don’t like this,” Chapman said of the campaign to make sure McBride didn’t take the mayor’s seat. “But all of us felt it would not be a good thing to have him representing us again.”
Among the donors listed for Good Government for Myrtle Beach: Compass Cove Resort, the Sea Captain’s House, the Bay View Resort, Realtor Barry Thigpen, Planning Commissioner Eddie Rodelsperger, the Landmark Resort, Seaport Village in Garden City, Caravelle Properties, David Brittain, and dozens of others. That PAC alone raised $118,290, the filing documents show.
McBride could not be reached for comment Monday.
Read more in Tuesday's edition of The Sun News.