By: James | November 20, 2012

By: John SweeneyMorning News


FLORENCE, S.C. –

Friday’s guilty verdict in the tax trial of Florence Rep. Kris Crawford, M.D., was apparently not the final chapter in the two year long controversy as Florence Democrats hope to keep the incumbent representative from his third term through one last legal action.


Crawford’s Democratic general election opponent for S.C. House 63, Austin Smith, said Monday he believes the Republican entering his third term is ineligible to hold office and plans to take legal action in the hopes of removing him and taking the seat for himself.


Smith issued a statement shortly after a spokesman for state Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell said after analyzing Friday’s verdict that found Crawford guilty on four counts ...