Eric Bikas, South Carolina Lawmaker, Says Two-Month Absence Due To Losing District

State Rep. Eric Bikas

Republican State Representative Eric J. Bikas said that he hasn't been to Columbia in two months, after he was asked to leave in January.

Bikas, 25, who represents District 26 area of Greenville and Pickens County, said in January the sergeant-at-arms asked him to leave the Statehouse chamber at the request of House Speaker Bobby Harrell.

"In January I was asked to leave because when the redistricting occurred, I ended up without a district," Bikas said.

Read the whole story at Easley Patch

Comments

[Denise Lane Painter]

11:59 AM on 03/30/2012

This is a true shame. The district could have had in Judy Gilstrap an experienced businesswoman and fiscally conservative spender who spent years on Greenville County Council working for the area on BOTH sides of the line (property wise, as well as politically), who actually has lived in the district for decades and doesn't rent an empty house to say he does, who has a record of a balanced budget EVERY YEAR she represented that district on council, as well as a record of working across the aisle but instead the people elected a blank-faced mouth-breather with a criminal record simply because he had an R beside his name, who got mad because they were mean to him and went home to pout. He's not running his businesses, his daddy and his uncles are. His name is just on the paperwork. Like the song says, "you get the government you deserve".

[Bob McEntyre]

11:41 AM on 03/30/2012

Hey Eric,we need 6 large cups of Coffee,and pick up some donuts.

[Phillip Hyper]

11:39 AM on 03/30/2012

I believe you have my red stapler . . .

[drwtsn]

08:59 PM on 03/29/2012

From the original article: "Whenever the Speaker said that, I thought it was kind of weird, but he's the speaker," Bikas said.

Just like when, at the age of 22, when his uncle told Bikas to pull his finger ...

[l78lancer]

07:29 PM on 03/29/2012

Gomer Pyle.

[drwtsn]

09:08 PM on 03/29/2012

You insult Gomer.

[l78lancer]

10:02 PM on 03/29/2012

LMBO!...oops.

[l78lancer]

07:27 PM on 03/29/2012

One of the lesson that most of our parents taught us early is that if you don't know, ask. If he was legally elected to perform his duties, then no one person should have had the right or authority to direct him to abandon his responsibilities (yes, he should have been sent home for the dress code violation, though.) That's common sense. But that not withstanding, he needed a legal opinion.

Some people are too dumb for grown-up responsibilities. Then again, Nikki Haley is the governor.

[Yocepuc]

05:57 PM on 03/29/2012

He was asked to leave because of suspicions that he was Michael Strahan's illigitmate son.

[Yikes11]

05:07 PM on 03/29/2012

doofus

[AirForce Vet]

04:24 PM on 03/29/2012

He got paid and this is his excuse. This man, if not naïve is a few bricks short of a full load.

[Denise Lane Painter]

12:01 PM on 03/30/2012

AirForce Vet, you have absolutely no idea....the bricks never made it onto the truck.

[92102]

02:42 PM on 03/29/2012

It looks like they'll vote for any Republican in SC. They got what they asked for.

[blukazoo]

02:33 PM on 03/29/2012

They told me to leave so I grabbed by lunchbox, asked someone to zip up my coat, and then headed out the the short yellow bus that takes me everywhere...

[bb7132]

02:17 PM on 03/29/2012

He's practicing to be the next GOP Speaker of the House.

[fireW]

02:16 PM on 03/29/2012

Must be nice being a con rep. Sure beats working for a living.

[traceymarie]

02:10 PM on 03/29/2012

Translation....I was being potty trained because my dirty diapers were smelling up the place

[donttrustem]

02:04 PM on 03/29/2012

Hookie, nookie, it's all good.