Press release: Lowcountry Livability PAC endorses 6 candidates for Charleston City Council for 2019 race

Lowcountry Livability PAC
Contact: Hugh C. Lane Jr., board member
hlane@banksc.com

FOR RELEASE: Oct. 3, 2019

CHARLESTON, SC — The Lowcountry Livability PAC announces that, after careful consideration, it has endorsed the following candidates for Charleston City Council in the Nov. 5 election:

    • District 1: Angela Drake
    • District 3: Jason Sakran
    • District 5: Karl Brady Jr.
    • District 7: The Rev. Christian King
    • District 9: Peter Shahid
    • District 11: Ross Appel

Charleston residents are ready for real leadership to tackle flooding and livability issues. Clearing out drains isn’t enough and tinkering with the budget isn’t enough. We need serious investment in eliminating flooding from West Ashley to Downtown. If we don’t act now and in a substantial way, Charleston will drown. We’ll lose hundreds of years of history and billions of dollars in economic activity. These candidates have proven they understand the issues and will take meaningful action once elected. The time for empty rhetoric from Charleston City Council is over.

Interviews will soon be posted on our website (https://livabilitypac.org). At this time, the Lowcountry Livability PAC has declined to endorse in this year’s mayoral race.

About the PAC

In 2017, a group of citizens from the City of Charleston and Charleston County gathered to discuss a number of issues that were negatively impacting their neighborhoods and the region at large. It was evident that decision-making by local governments was marked by divisiveness rather than unity.

This group felt strongly that more issues unite, rather than divide, the communities and municipalities throughout the region. And it was apparent that organizing our efforts was the best way to ensure that our elected officials would address these issues, such as housing affordability, transportation, climate change, and tourism management.

This is the third year the PAC has made endorsements.

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