Filling area’s seat on the South Carolina DOT

Seneca’s Eddie Adams resigned 11  months ago from the policy-making arm of the South Carolina Department of Transportation. As explained by a DOT spokesman, the process to choose Adams’ successor is an involved process, with the end still months away. In the meantime, Oconee County residents and those South Carolinians from other Third District counties have no direct representation when it comes to the big decisions that are made about the state’s roads and bridges. The DOT’s Stan Shealy says Easley resident Rex Rice and Greenwood residents Rhett Dominick and Dr. Ben Davis have applied to be elected as Adams’ replacement and are undergoing a vetting out process that is to end with one of them to be elected by a vote of state lawmakers who represent the ten counties of the Third Congressional District.  The unexpired term runs until February 15, 2016.