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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

Wyatt Miler out of Race

Tom-Corbin---06-20-12Rep. Tom Corbin beat Amanda Tieder Somers more than two to one in the District 5 State Senate Republican Primary. Corbin received 2,404 votes or 66.29 percent to Somers’ 1,139 votes or 31.39 percent.

Corbin won in all the precincts outside Greer and Somers won in 3 Greer precincts by a slight margin.

Corbin defeated Incumbent Harry Cato two years ago and became the District 17 state representative. When Phil Shoopman suddenly announced that he was withdrawing from the race as the incumbent state senator, leaving only Somers on the ballot, the state Republican Party opened the filing period and allowed other candidates to file in accordance with state law. Tom Corbin and Wyatt Miler filed for the office.

Thinking she would be able to take the senate seat without having to go before voters with an opponent, Somers responded immediately and filed a lawsuit attempting to get her new opponents taken off the ballot. To date a court has not ruled on the suit.

Summers acknowledged publicly that she voted for Barack Obama in the last presidential election for business purposes. Her published list of supporters were comprised of the down-town Greer political power structure including members of all political persuasions, such as the Burch, Ashmore and other well-known Greer families. Mrs. Somers may have been surprised that the majority of Senate District 5 is unimpressed by all things “Greer”.

The Corbin nomination means a special primary will be necessary to pick a candidate or candidates to seek an opportunity to replace Corbin in the House to represent District 17.

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