They should not be treated like a colony. Sierra Club supports the bill to restructure DHEC, but Isham expects an uphill fight. There is polluting industry on one hand, and public indifference on the other. I'm disturbed that more people aren't upset. Isham hopes that as public awareness increases so will the level of political pressure.
Constituents have no idea how much power they have.
I think things are the way they are at DHEC because nobody has challenged them. Mary Kelly M ary Kelly says she spends more time than she should writing letters, sitting through public hearings and making phone calls to pressure legislators and policy makers to vote the way she thinks they should. Kelly has been an activist since 1972, when she joined the South Carolina League of Women Voters. Before that, she had been busy rearing seven children and teaching part-time. Her family moved to South Carolina in 1965, when her husband took a job in Winnsboro.