By Bill Davis, senior editor | Nine years ago when the state’s most famous hiker, Mark Sanford, was still governor, the state Senate approved a line item that would divert nearly $1 million to erect a national green bean museum in Lake City. The same year, it voted to create a nearly $4 million for a Florence-centric museum.
But perhaps the oddest item the legislature funded in recent years was new fire truck for a volunteer fire department in former House Ways and Means chair Dan Cooper’s district in Piedmont after Sanford vetoed it the first time.
This year, however, all-things-budget are a little different.
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