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Public should benefit In The Post and Courier's Friday edition, John McDermott reported on the possibility of Santee Cooper selling the partially completed nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, which were not only the objects of incompetence, mismanagement and fraud, but also a project that consumers have been bearing the burden of for years. If Santee Cooper manages to sell the partially finished reactors, shouldn't the proceeds from the sale be returned to taxpayers and ratepayers? Haven't we paid enough to have a stake in this project and profit from its sale? Or will Santee Cooper be allowed to profit from something we have heavily contributed to, like it or not? SUE FLASTER Norman's politics divisive Gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman wants to further stack the deck and eliminate South Carolina's only current Democratic-held congressional seat. He should remember that the part of the Congress in which he serves is called the House of Representatives; it "represents" the full population, not just the loudest and most privileged voices. Roughly 40 percent of South Carolinians have voted Democratic in presidential elections for the past 30 years. By his statements, Rep. Norman would like to disenfranchise those two out of every five South Carolinians who do not agree with his bowing down to Donald Trump’s politics. By true "small-d" democratic standards and with a level playing field, were it not already for unfair Republican gerrymandering, two or three of South Carolina's seven congressional seats would be held by Democrats, not just one. That's how representative democracy works, not through his bullying playground politics.
