(20 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Columbia, South Carolina – 8 September 2025
1. Wide of South Carolina State House.
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Rock Hill, South Carolina – 4 September 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County:
"What they tried to do is increase the $1000 a month in district expense compensation to legislators from $1000 to $2500 a month. It’s an $18,000 a year pay raise. It’s an 80% pay raise for legislators."
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Columbia, South Carolina – 8 September 2025
3. Wide of South Carolina State House renovations plaque.
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Rock Hill, South Carolina – 4 September 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County:
"If there is going to be debate around a pay raise or if it is decided that that’s good public policy, the fact of the matter is that the people by way of elections under our Constitution have a right to weigh in before that takes effect. And so I’ve sued to block the unconstitutional pay raise in order to safeguard that constitutional principle that the legislature cannot appropriate itself more of the people’s money in real time."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 8 September 2025
5. Close up of the hands of South Carolina Representative Hamilton Grant, (D) Richland County, working on his computer.
6. Mid of South Carolina Representative Hamilton Grant, (D) Richland County, working on his computer.
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Columbia, South Carolina – 26 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina Representative Hamilton Grant, (D) Richland County:
"The budget proviso went out to up that to $2500. It was struck down via lawsuit by the court. And it removed the $2500 and did not take us back to the $1000 and so it completely wiped it away. So as a House member and member of the General Assembly in August of right now, I am done being compensated for the entire year by the state of South Carolina."
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Rock Hill, South Carolina – 4 September 2025
8. Mid of South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County, speaking during an interview.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County:
"That a proviso inserted in the Senate under those circumstances made it into the final budget package and when it was included in the final budget package, that’s when I went to the well of the Senate and said this is unconstitutional, it will not stand. You have an opportunity to fix it now. You should fix it now and they didn’t and so. They made choices. These are the consequences."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 8 September 2025
10. Mid of South Carolina Representative Hamilton Grant, (D) Richland County, working on his computer.
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Columbia, South Carolina – 26 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina Representative Hamilton Grant, (D) Richland County:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rock Hill, South Carolina – 4 September 2025
12. Mid of South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County, speaking during an interview.
13. Close up of the hands of South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County, while speaking during an interview.
14. SOUNDBITE (English) South Carolina State Senator Wes Climer, (R) York County:
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Columbia, South Carolina – 8 September 2025
15. Wide of empty legislative chamber in Columbia, South Carolina.
AP video shot by Jeffrey Collins, Erik Verduzco
STORYLINE:
South Carolina legislators are not getting paid for the rest of the year over a lawsuit after a recent pay raise.
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