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  • Officials hurt credibility with lack of candor
    A week after Beaufort County voters approved a school bond referendum, the school district indicated that one of the two Bluffton elementary schools included in the referendum might not be built on the original schedule.
  • Clinton only pandering with windfall profit tax
    Lest there be any question about Hillary Clinton's socialist pedigree, witness her call for a windfall tax on the oil company profits. That is socialist philosophy. As a percentage profit, the oil companies earn less than Coca-Cola. As usual, Clinton is pandering by blaming the price of gasoline on the big bad oil companies.
  • Candidate choice makes one fearful for country
    Because Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama seem to be the best this country has to offer her citizens in November, I fear our wonderful country is in mortal danger of going the way of all wonderful countries in the past.
  • Congressional stalemate causing much frustration
    The federal legislature, Congress, is bicameral (with two separate bodies), the House of Representatives and the Senate. Any legislation, in order to become law, must pass both houses and be signed by the president. Failure to be passed by either house orthe president means the legislation dies. (The president can veto).
  • Written survey preferred to intrusive phone calls
    Hilton Head Island officials have lost me. I do not want to be included among the 1,200 residents of Hilton Head who will get phone calls asking about their vision for the future of our town. I am very happy to read that the town is updating the comprehensive plan regarding the legal framework for development regulations, goals for recreation, cultural resources and housing.
  • Local sports news better than sterile stock report
    In response to the letter writer who wrote suggesting that The Island Packet "cut down on the excessive space they give to high school sports rather than butcher the stock and mutual fund listing."
  • Is Clinton's threat policy or election ploy?
    "Madame Strangelove," aka Hillary Clinton, has threatened to "obliterate" Iran, provide an unasked for unilateral umbrella of military protection to many of the Middle East and Persian Gulf states at our expense, and I assume, the lives of our young men and women.
  • Is Clinton's threat policy or election ploy?
    "Madame Strangelove," aka Hillary Clinton, has threatened to "obliterate" Iran, provide an unasked for unilateral umbrella of military protection to many of the Middle East and Persian Gulf states at our expense, and I assume, the lives of our young men and women.
  • True Christians hold to Bible's truths
    Modern Christianity? No, Leonard Pitts, it's about original Christianity. ("Modern Christianity losing sight of what Jesus taught humankind," April 28)
  • True Christians hold to Bible's truths
    Modern Christianity? No, Leonard Pitts, it's about original Christianity. ("Modern Christianity losing sight of what Jesus taught humankind," April 28)
  • Americans finally realize Bush's shortcomings
    According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released May 1, President Bush has managed to earn one of the highest disapproval ratings of any American president. Since the 1930s, which is when Gallup polling started, Bush is the first president to have more than 70 percent of the American public disapprove of how he is handling his job. Bush is even more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned in August 1974.
  • Oil companies need incentives to invest here
    Exxon-Mobil just issued its first- quarter financial report, showing a profit of $11 billion on revenue of almost $117 billion. This is only 9.4 percent, below the 10 percent considered good. Exxon-Mobil stock fell in trading on the report. Even with this, the public response was to call for taxing the "windfall" profits. A close look at the source of the profits shows a far different story.
  • Reclaim Mother's Day historic call for peace
    Devastated by all the death and carnage of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic" author) called on mothers everywhere to protest what now appeared to her as the futility of war -- sons of mothers killing sons of other mothers. She gave a stirring call instead for an international Mother's Day to celebrate instead both motherhood and peace, so the first North American Mother's Day was conceived with her Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870.
  • Wright's allegiances may belong to Clintons
    Did it ever occur to anyone that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright might just be a closet Clinton crony? After all, he was one of a roomful of clerics invited to the White House for a Sept. 11, 1998, prayer breakfast, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky affair, to hear President Bill Clinton confess that he had sinned.
  • November election is Democrats to lose
    The United States is involved in an unpopular war in Iraq. The economy is in the tank (according to the mainstream media). The housing industry has been rocked by the subprime mortgage debacle and the resulting foreclosures and plunge in home values. Gas and oil prices are at record highs. Jobs continue to move to other shores. The sitting president has one of the lowest approval ratings on record. The list goes on: Hurricane Katrina, global warming, deficits, etc.
  • Full-scale recycling no job for limited services town
    In a recent guest column, Hilton Head Island Town Councilman John Safay outlined what he thought were the options available to Hilton Head residents. What is lost on Mr. Safay is that the Town of Hilton Head Island, as opposed to Myrtle beach or Charlotte, is a limited services government, not currently in the waste removal-recycling business.
  • Do-nothing Democrats not helping Americans
    In 1994, when the Republicans took control of the House led by Newt Gingrich, they signed a "Contract with America" promising to pass 12 bills if elected. They subsequently passed all of the 12 bills in question within 120 days and the majority of them became law.
  • Film reveals threats to scientific freedom
    I just saw the documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." The documentary considers the concepts of Darwinism versus intelligent design within the framework of freedom of scientific thought. Depending on the viewer's point of view, either concept might emerge as the winner.
  • Attacks on America our biggest worry
    There were three recent letters I wish to address. The first writer was concerned with the amount of money we are spending on the war and fears that Social Security and Medicare programs will go broke. The second was upset because the American people aren't suffering as much during this conflict as we did in World War II. Therefore we can't consider the war in Iraq a real war. The third thought we have spent way too much money on developing weapons and previous wars. The writer's contention is that we should spend all our money on climate change where the real threat to our well-being is.

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Your Elected Officials

U.S. Congress
State Government
  • Gov. Mark Sanford (R)
    Governor’s Office, State House, P.O. Box 12267, Columbia, S.C. 29211
    Office: (803) 734-2100 Fax: (803) 734-5167
  • Sen. Catherine Ceips (R-District 46)
    608 Gressette Building, Columbia, S.C. 29202
    Office: (803) 202-6032
    Home: (843) 524-2020
    1207 Bay St., Beaufort, S.C. 29902
  • Rep. Richard Chalk (R-District 123)
    326C Blatt Building, Columbia, S.C. 29211-1867
    Office: (803) 734-3067; Home: (843) 842-5985
    15 Goldfinch Lane, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29928
  • Rep. Bill Herbkersman (R-District 118)
    P.O. Box 11867, Columbia, S.C. 29211
    Office: (803) 734-3063; Home: (843) 757-5424
    151 Gascoigne Bluff, Bluffton, S.C. 29910
Beaufort County
  • Rick Caporale (R-District 1)
    17 Salt Wind Way, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29926
    Office: 680-9999; fax: 681-6700
  • Steven Baer (R-District 2)
    10 Heather Lane, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29926
    Office: 689-3570; fax: 689-3569
  • Stu Rodman (R-District 3)
    27 Baynard Park, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29928
    Office: 363-470; fax: 363-6472
  • Weston J. Newton chairman (R-District 4)
    P.O. Drawer 7049, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29938
    Office: 842-6111; fax: 706-9981
  • Jerry Stewart (R-District 10)
    11 Teaberry Lane, Bluffton, S.C. 29909
    Office: 705-4753; fax: 705-4723
Beaufort County School District
  • District Office: 1300 King St., P.O. Drawer 309, Beaufort, SC 29902
    Office: 322-2300; fax: 322-2371
    Hilton Head Island office, 689-4635; fax: 689-4617
  • Southern Beaufort County Board of Education members:
    • Joan Deery (District 1)
      5 old Fort Drive, Hilton Head, S.C. 29926
      Home: 681-8968
    • Bob Arundell (District 2)
      198 Woodlake Villas, Hilton Head, S.C. 29926
      Home: 681-8502; work: 7855-8040; fax: 785-3056;
    • Reid Eikner (District 3)
      2532 Gleneagle Green, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29938
      Home: 671-5383; cell: 422-2006
    • Laura Bush (District 4)
      P.O. Box 172, Bluffton, S.C. 29910
      Home: 757-2638; fax: 757-2638
    • George Wilson (District 10)
      20 Osprey Circle, Callawassie Island, S.C. 29909
      Home: 987-1234; cell: 812-9870
Town of Hilton Head Island
  • Town Hall: One Town Center Court, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928; 341-4600
  • Town Council
    • Mayor Thomas D. Peeples
      4 Hartford Place, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-3922
      Home: 686-4138; office: 681-2600; fax: 689-3229
    • Bill Ferguson (Ward 1), 634 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
      Home: 686-2863
    • Bill Mottel (Ward 2)
      30 Glenmoor Place, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
      Home: 689-2787; fax: 681-6302
    • Drew A. Laughlin (Ward 3), 5 McIntosh Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
      Home: 689-5723; work 689-5700; fax 689-9300
    • John Safay (Ward 4)
      19 Starboard Tack, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
      Home: 785-4489; work: 785-4696; fax: 785-4696
    • George Williams (Ward 5), 8 Braddock Cove, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
      Home: 363-6601; fax: 363-6604
    • Ken S. Heitzke (Ward 6), 3 Audubon Place, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
      Home: 681-8182; fax: 681-9864
Town of Bluffton
  • P.O. Box 386, Bluffton, SC 29910
    Office: 706-4500; fax: 757-6720
  • Town Council
  • Mayor Hank Johnston, P.O. Box 1875, Bluffton, SC 29910
    Home: 757-9039; fax: 757-9040
  • Fred Hamilton Jr., 52 Goethe Road, Bluffton, SC 29910
    Home: 815-5511
  • Lisa Sulka, P.O. Box 2750, Bluffton, SC 29910
    Home: 757-7660
  • Thomas Heyward
    P.O. Box 353, Bluffton, SC 29910
    Home and fax: 757-3354
  • Charlie Wetmore P.O. Box 468 Bluffton, SC 29910
    Home: 304-4061
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