Sun News | Killian steps out of ed board race to run for state Senate

Posted on December 19, 2007 
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Greg Killian said Saturday he is withdrawing from the race for a seat on the state Board of Education and instead issued his challenge for state Sen. Luke Rankin’s job.

Killian’s action sets the local political season rolling early, as well as opens up the education board race again.

“Today, I contacted the chair man of the Horry County Legis lative Delegation, Rep. Thad Viers, to inform him that I wish to withdraw my name from consideration for the position of 15th Judicial Circuit representa tive to the S.C. Board of Education in order to devote my full attention to offering my services to the citizens of District 33 as their representa tive to the S.C. state Senate,” Killian said in a written state ment.

“Certainly it is his right to run,” Rankin said. “However, I suspect that the voters of Horry County will decide not to support him for the same reasons that myself and a majority of the delegation were not going to support him for the state board position based upon some of the things in his back ground.”

The Sun News
By Zane Wilson
12/15/07