News analysis by Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Next year’s South Carolina Senate will be different from any convening of senators in recent memory.
Not only will there be eight new senators -- nine if you include Sen. Mike Gambrell (R-Honea), who really got started just days before the Senate finished its work for this year. But the leadership of major committees will change in ways unlike anything anyone ever remembers.
“You’ve had a bigger turnover in leadership than I can ever recall,” said former Sen. John Land, D-Clarendon. “At the top before, change was always very gradual and gentle as far as replacements were concerned.”
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