CPA-PAC News

SC CPA-PAC Contributes to Candidates for June 8, 2010 Primary Races (May 21, 2010)

The South Carolina CPA-PAC has made contributions to select candidates running for the House of Representatives who are facing strong primary opposition.  The SC CPA-PAC trustees carefully consider which candidates to support taking into account their past support of business friendly issues as well as those affecting the CPA profession. The total contributed this round was $8,750

Receiving contributions from the SC CPA-PAC

Representatives Rita Allison (Spartanburg), Don Bowen (Anderson), Robert Brown (Charleston), Harry Cato (Greenville), Richard Chalk (Beaufort),  Dan Cooper (Anderson), Marion Frye (Lexington), Nelson Hardwick (Horry), Jim Harrison (Richland), Keith Kelly (Spartanburg), Gene Pinson (Greenwood), Roland Smith (Aiken), Bill Sandifer (Oconee), Mike Sotille (Charleston).

A sincere thank you goes to the following South Carolina CPAs who serve as “Key Person Contacts” and volunteered to hand-deliver contribution checks to their local legislator.

Caprice Atterbury    James McIlrath 
Chris Benfield    Doug Snyder 
John Camp    Nancy Upton 
Patrick Carey    Ashley Thiem 
Keith Dooley    Robert Wade 

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Later this summer the CPA PAC trustees will reconvene to consider potential contributions to candidates for state constitutional offices as well as candidates for the House with general election opposition.

Contributions to candidates help SCACPA and the CPA profession connect with key policy-makers. It’s part of all-important relationship-building for a time when those relationships may be needed to protect the CPA profession.
 
Generous donations given by individual members as well as CPA firms are the sole means by which the Association can show its support of certain legislators by supporting their campaigns.  Some 240 (or 7%) of SCACPA members have donated over $13,000 to the CPA-PAC in 2010. 

Firms, which have donated a cumulative total of $10,000 in 2010, include: Derrick Stubbs & Stith, Dixon Hughes, Elliot Davis, McAbee Talbert Halliday, the Schmoyer Company, Scott McElveen, WebsterRogers,

Thank you to each and every member and firm who acknowledges and supports this important process!