South Carolina – Government, Politics

South Carolina SC Government and Politics

SC State Government

• SC.GOV - state government portal
• Statewide elected officials - includes email addresses
  – Governor - Nikki Haley
  – Previous SC governors - since 1776
  
• General Assembly - legislature
  – Laws, legislation - includes pending bills
  
• Departments, agencies, boards
• Jobs
• Budget and Control Board Transparency Hub - find out how your money is spent
  – Agency Spending Transparency - searchable database of expenditures of State funds by each agency
  – Procurement Contracts - searchable database
  – State employee salaries - searchable database for employees earning $50,000 or more - legislative salaries not included
  
• Federal Stimulus Tracking
  
• Requests for bids and proposals
• More state government information

SC County Government

• Official web sites - home pages
• County officials in SC - phone numbers, addresses - scroll down
  
• Regional councils of governments
• Courthouses - county seats
• Vital records - county clerks
• Jobs
• Building permits
• Registers of Deeds
• Requests for county bids and proposals
• Tax Assessors - plus property and vehicle searches
• More county government information

SC Municipal (City, Town) Government

• Official web sites - home pages
• Phone numbers, addresses, overviews
• Jobs
• Building permits
• Requests for bids and proposals
• More city government information

Federal Government in SC

• Elected federal officials - includes email addresses
• Military bases, commands, centers
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
• Savannah River Site - Aiken, Barnwell counties
  
• United States Postal Service
• Jobs
• More federal government information

SC Elected Officials

• County - includes phone numbers, addresses - scroll down
  
• Federal - includes email addresses
• State - includes email addresses
  
  
• Don't know who your elected officials are? Find out here.
  

SC Elections

• Candidates, voter registration, previous elections, and more

SC Tax Resources Guide

• Everything you need to file your South Carolina and Federal tax returns

Related SC Governmental and Political Resources

• Government organizations
• Statistics
  – Government, politics
  – Election returns, voter registration
  
• South Carolina political blogs