Mar 25 2008
Gilland to Primary Rankin, Killian Withdraws
County Council Chairwoman Liz Gilland announced Monday that she will challenge Sen. Luke Rankin for the state senate seat for District 33, which includes Myrtle Beach and about half of Conway.
Gilland, who filed her candidacy Monday with the Horry County Republican Party, has served on the council for 14 years and has been chairwoman for the past six years. Gilland said she wants to be a voice for local government at the state level.
“Those of us who serve on the county level continually fight edicts handed down from Columbia by the General Assembly by representatives who don’t have much knowledge about what goes on at the local level,” she said.
Gilland would be the second candidate in the primary, but the first challenger to Senator Rankin, Greg Killian, just dropped out of the race citing an aversion to dirty politics being committed by a third party group against Rankin. Rankin is rumored to be on the alleged Mark Sanford “Hit List.”
