Ginny Deerin, a candidate for SC Secretary of State, stops by DI

Ginny Deerin (center) is a candidate for the South Carolina Secretary of State. She was on Daniel Island last week and is pictured with her two sisters who live on Daniel Island, Lesesne Hudson and Connie Dittrich. Hudson, Dittrich and Laura Varn hosted a meet and greet for Deerin at Hudson’s home in Daniel Island Park. Deerin addressed a group of supporters, stressing that the Secretary of State job is largely administrative, with no policy responsibilities, and that her top goal if elected is to bring the department into the technological age, explaining that only 4 of the 129 functions of the office are available online. She noted that the department is “stunningly yesterday” and described it as “…a little corner of state government that is broken and it would be fun to fix it.” Deerin also described herself as a customer of the department as a business person, a non-profit fundraiser, a non-profit head, and as a researcher who knows the challenges of working with an antiquated system. She notes she wants to lower costs to the businesses and non-profits that the department serves. Deerin is running as a Democrat against the 12-year Republican incumbent Mark Hammond and she stressed that her business-friendly and fiscally responsible plans make her a “Democrat that Republicans will love to support.”