c/p P&C
On Nov. 28, I was given the chance to speak to the South Carolina House Ad-Hoc Committee on Offshore Drilling, along with other citizens, several local elected officials and Sen. Stephen Goldfinch. All expressed their opposition to seismic testing and offshore drilling in the Atlantic, except Sen. Goldfinch who took a position favoring offshore seismic testing. Since he represents the same citizens as the other elected officials I wondered why he was taking an opposite position from theirs. I chatted with him last week on Facebook and I asked him why.
Sen. Goldfinch answered in part as follows:
“Ed, your strategy was clever. No doubt, but your methods were weak. Your organization used the same resolution language throughout every city and it’s the same language that was used in other states. It’s clear this is a national fundraising campaign and nothing more. It’s sad you’ve bought into such a fraud.”
Wow! I had no idea that every local elected official on the coast of South Carolina could be duped and defrauded into signing resolutions opposing offshore seismic testing and drilling in the Atlantic by some “national fundraising campaign.”
If any of you are reading this and feel that Sen. Goldfinch has sullied your reputations as thinking, caring representatives of the citizens of South Carolina I suggest you write or email him and let him know.
I think the senator is out of touch.
Ed Yaw
Cockle Shell Court
Pawley’s Island