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Sun Jan 22, 2017, 08:27 AM Jan 2017

McMaster to remain in all-white country club as South Carolina governor

COLUMBIA -- S.C. Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster will take his membership in the all-white Forest Lake Club with him to the Governor’s Mansion.

A pair of Democrats say the state’s next Republican governor must quit that membership to truly represent all of South Carolina.

However, a Republican in the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature says the membership is a non-issue.

McMaster, a member of the exclusive club for more than three decades, has no plans to quit the country club, his spokesman told The State.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article127884729.html

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