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Inside this week’s Blitz: LOSING FEELING: USC vs. UA dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 VOL. 110, NO. 52 ● SINCE 1908 Voters OK penny sales tax Judge orders Increase could fund new roads, billion over the next 22 years to fund railroad tracks by the arena, put in countywide bus initiative near USC infrastructure projects, build new bike bike lines and sidewalks down Greene lanes and greenways and right the Street and improve the intersection of recount Thad Moore CMRTA bus service . Greene and Lincoln near the arena , [email protected] Many of those funds would head according to the proposal. toward projects around USC’s campus, It would add to a number of Decision follows questions Richland County voters approved including $50 million for projects signifi cant projects happening on that over tight House race a penny sales tax increase Tuesday, related to Innovista . side of Assembly Street and contribute a vote that could fund a number of According to a list of projects to the westward migration of campus. Thad Moore transportation initiatives throughout proposed by the county, that money USC is constructing the new Darla [email protected] the county and near USC’s campus. would pay for an extension of Greene Moore School of Business building A judge ordered that the state The county election commission Street from near the Colonial Life there , and it’s announced its intent to Election Commission recount all votes announced Wednesday that the Arena to an upcoming extension of build a privately funded residence hall cast in Richland County Thursday increase, which would raise the sales Williams Street , on the other side of in the area. It’s also bandied about the evening. tax in the county to 8 cents, had gained Huger Street , which the funds would possibility of expanding the Greek It was the second order Circuit Judge approval . It passed with a six-point also pay for. Under the proposal, Village there. Casey Manning issued Thursday, The margin — 53 percent to 47 percent — Williams would run from an extended That development would happen State reported, after he demanded a with 98 percent of precincts reporting Senate Street to Greene. with or without the sales tax, USC recount in the tight race for House Thursday . It would also build a bridge and District 75 . The tax is expected to generate $1.07 “pedestrian promenade” over the TAX ● A2 Just before the last vote counts were announced in that race Wednesday, Joe McCulloch, a Democrat, led Kirkman Finlay , a Republican, by 46 votes . But Finlay held a strong advantage in the fi nal set of absentee ballots, taking three-quarters of the last 621 ballots . In one grouping of votes, Finlay won 267 votes, and McCulloch earned none , The State reported. That raised questions in the South Carolina Democratic Party, which fi led a petition Thursday to stop the county from certifying the results. The state Election Commission will hold the recount, which includes every other race in the county, today, delaying those contests’ certifi cation. Comments on this story? Visit dailygamecock.com/news For Gowdy, life in offi ce is literal Representative refl ects on time in Congress, discourse in Washington Evan D. Gatti [email protected] When U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy goes to work in Washington, life isn’t too luxurious. “I sleep in my offi ce; I sleep on a couch,” Gowdy said. Gowdy, who represents the Upstate, was speaking to a crowd of about 25 students on his experience as a USC School of Law student and his time in Congress. But even just two days after he was re-elected to a second term , Gowdy said he was well aware of financial constraints of owning a second home in Washington, D.C. Photos by Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK He’s not alone, either. Elliott Root (top) and the Spiff Kidz (bottom left) took to Greene Street Thursday night to perform at the Cockfest pep rally. “(Paul Ryan) is in the offi ce right beside mine on a couch,” Gowdy said. “There are about 120 of us who do it.” Cockfest rocks Greene Street And when it comes to other congressmen, he said the idea that basketball and women’s volleyball and softball teams on representatives don’t get along is Homecoming pep rally names stage to introduce themselves to the crowd. largely a misconception fueled by university’s top fans Thursday After the teams left, it was time to announce the the media. fi nalists and winner of USC’s No. 1 fan competition. “We don’t insult one another,” Charnita Mack Molly Fitzgerald, Denzel Friday and Lauren Stitzlein [email protected] Gowdy said. “That’s what TV wants all recorded YouTube videos making the case for why you to see ... The media decides what Students with “spur” fi ngers cheered along with the they are the team’s best fan. Those videos were shown, you hear.” Gamecock cheerleaders as the Cockfest pep rally kicked and each contestant went on stage to convince the Still, Gowdy’s seen the bickering off on Greene Street Thursday night. audience why they should be named USC’S top fan. and name-calling, too. The homecoming rally was lightly attended, but those The winner was chosen by the students in the crowd Earlier this week, he said, he got a who came weren’t deterred. They rocked to “Sandstorm” who voted by text message, and after two minutes, phone call from the youth minister when the time came, and Cocky made an appearance on Fitzgerald, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, took of a local church who told him that stage to get the crowd pumped up even more. home the title. the children of his church’s youth The event was hosted by women’s basketball’s senior group had posted hateful comments forward Ashley Bruner and football’s sophomore wide Comments on this story? receiver Bruce Ellington . They brought the men’s Visit dailygamecock.com/news CONGRESS ● A2 Friday “Stage Beauty” Long lines at polls An old soul 70° 40° USC Theatre opens Columnist Steven USC tailback Kenny the classic produc- Moore talks about his Miles is back to his tion about Edward six-hour wait at the old role as the No. 1 Saturday Kynaston tonight at polls and the inad- run option after Mar- Longstreet Theatre. equacy of Richland cus Lattimore’s injury. 75° 44° County’s preparation. See page A5 See page A4 See page B2 Friday, November 9, 2012 A2 For Wilson, role as SC’s top lawyer is personal general conference and heard a event to hear Wilson speak, hoping to dog catcher” accountable. Attorney general focuses regular, upper-middle-class Michigan collect two relatively painless points of “It’s one of the largest, most critical on US human traffi cking woman tell her story of being raped extra credit for attending. reforms in the criminal justice system and traffi cked. For two years, she was Most didn’t bargain they’d be on the today,” Wilson said. Colin Campbell blackmailed into sneaking out of her edge of their seats. He took questions, encouraged [email protected] house after her parents went to sleep He acknowledged with a grin the students to apply for internships in his and was rented out for sexual acts reason Gambrell Hall Auditorium offi ce and closed with one more example The concept of human trafficking several times a week. was full Thursday night, but rather of why he believes his job is so crucial. used to be foreign to Alan Wilson. The seriousness and proximity of the than giving a dry lecture about the He told the tale of a case he For the South Carolina attorney issue hit home for Wilson. functions and duties of his office, he prosecuted, in which a 19-year-old had general, it mainly brought to mind “I thought, ‘This isn’t Liam Neeson’s spent his half hour telling stories about been repeatedly sexually abused by Eastern Europeans abducting Liam daughter in Eastern Europe,’” he said. his experiences in his two years as the her grandfather. Her sobbing reaction Neeson’s daughter in the movie “‘This is a real person.’” state’s top public lawyer and how they’ve to her grandfather’s guilty verdict “Taken.” As a result, Wilson pushed to impacted him. impressed upon him the importance of “I loved the movie. Watching Liam tighten South Carolina’s regulations He used the ethics case of Lt. Gov. his job. Neeson kick some Eastern European on trafficking and gangs, among Ken Ard — which his offi ce prosecuted “I said, ‘Why are you crying? We butt — I’m all for it,” Wilson said. other initiators of crime. He said the this year — to stress the need for won,’” Wilson said. “She realized she But the movie, he said, “cemented government has “come a long way” in South Carolina’s newly founded was free.” in me a belief that human trafficking its prosecution of those types of crime.