South-Carolina
Jay Lucas to leave as South Carolina Speaker at end of session
Lucas introduced final month he would not run for reelection for a thirteenth time period to the Home.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Home Speaker Jay Lucas mentioned Thursday he’ll step down from his management put up when this 12 months’s common session ends on Might 12.
In a letter to the Home clerk, Lucas set the election to pick out his substitute for subsequent Thursday, the place Methods and Means Chairman Murrell Smith seems to have the place locked up.
Lucas introduced final month he would not run for reelection for a thirteenth time period to the Home.
The Hartsville Republican determined he needed to guarantee an orderly transition in a physique the place the final three audio system have, so as, misplaced their majority, resigned to turn into ambassador to Canada, and had been kicked out of workplace after being indicted, Home Majority Chief Gary Smilrill mentioned.
“You could have a terrific speaker in Jay Lucas and a terrific speaker-in—ready, quickly to be speaker-elect in Murrell Smith,” mentioned Simrill, a Republican from Rock Hill.
Smith is presently the chairman of the Methods and Means Committee. The Sumter Republican should resign that put up from the budget-writing group as a result of the speaker is not on any committees.
Smith additionally will face re-election in December when the newly elected Home class involves the Statehouse for an organizational session.