Lexington County takes a Conservative turn

Ned Tolar and wife Vicki. 

Maybe the state of South Carolina did not go more Conservative after Tuesday's elections, but thank goodness, Lexington County did.

The turn to the right was needed. 

Anti-Tax champion Ned Tolar defeated the more-government, more-taxing Bill  Banning for the Dist. 8 seat on Lexington County Council.

Lexington County Council will have three new members in November, of the nine seats. It's 5-4 voting majority for more taxation is most-likely gone. 

Larry Brigham was elected June 10. He likely won because of the incumbent's tax increase vote. 

Banning, a 16-year incumbent, openly supported a $300 million penny sales tax on Lexington County residents. And he voted for property tax increases the last three times one was proposed.

The penny sales tax, and tax increases in general, are POPULAR among longtime government insiders, but loathed by the people.

And Lexington County only has to look across the Saluda River to see what more taxes and big government do to a county.

Richland County is filled with wasteful government boondoggles and a system that smells of corruption. Even the vote to gain a penny sales tax in Richland County was linked to corruption and government incompetence, with the county's voting commission.

It likely still has not been corrected, because government officials would rather have their way, than have  integrity in the system.

Lexington is governed more smartly than Richland. And the election of Tolar will help enforce Lexington County's Conservative belief in less taxation.