The South Carolina Senate has rejected efforts to remove money from the state budget for private nonprofits and local projects.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina Senate has rejected efforts to remove money from the state budget for private nonprofits and local projects.
The Senate on Thursday killed a proposal by Sen. Shane Massey to strip roughly $4 million from the 2012-13 spending plan.
Items in his amendment included $300,000 for a North Myrtle Beach museum, $100,000 for a fire station in tiny Andrews and $200,000 toward preserving Mitchelville, America's first community of freed slaves on Hilton Head Island.
Democratic senators trumped Massey's amendment by adding to it dozens of items. The Senate then killed the whole thing.
Massey says trying to lump together money for job training, for example, and a park pavilion is disingenuous.
Senate Minority Leader John Land says he considers all the items worthwhile projects that improve South Carolina.
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