Bennettsville

So I'm standing in the back of a middle school camp.

There might be 100 kids there in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

I'd been cutting grass all day, and I was the lifeguard.

And he said, "Joby Martin, when the singing's done, you're gonna preach." And we were singing I Am a Sea with an overhead projector.

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There's one pharmacy that will also close if these Medicaid budget cuts go through.

And then a couple days later I was in Bennettsville, South Carolina, standing in front of their only hospital that closed 11 years ago.

So, you know, we have a very fractured, underfunded healthcare system in South Carolina, and I just can't believe she's so out of touch with the people of South Carolina that she thinks these Medicaid budget cuts are okay.

On the flip side, though, we will have a triumphal arch, so doesn't that make it all worth it?

What is something that somebody's told you on the campaign trail that's, uh, that's stuck with you, pr- uh, perhaps something that, that you haven't heard from, you know, a, a, a regular Democratic voter?

Oh, that's a good question.

I mean, I was just, when I was just in Bennettsville, um, we were standing outside this closed rural hospital, and this woman who works in healthcare, she was there in her scrubs, and she had her four-year-old son with her.

And, you know, she was just so grateful that we had showed up to even have a conversation, to shine a light on the fact that this county is really suffering without access to healthcare.

Um, I started out in like a very scary situation.

Like it's this prison in Bennettsville, South Carolina called Evans and, uh, it's dirty, it's dangerous, uh, people there are...

It's not a place that you wanna be.

It's a level two yard out of three, so it's, it's maximum security, um, not really moving around very often, never going outside.

There's one pharmacy that will also close if these Medicaid budget cuts go through.

And then a couple of days later, I was in Bennettsville, South Carolina, standing in front of their only hospital that closed 11 years ago.

So, you know, we have a very fractured, underfunded health care system in South Carolina.

And I just can't believe she's so out of touch with the people of South Carolina that she thinks these Medicaid budget cuts are OK.

What is something that somebody's told you on the campaign trail that's stuck with you, perhaps something that you haven't heard from a regular Democratic voter?

Oh, that's a good question.

I mean, when I was just in Bennettsville, we were standing outside this closed rural hospital.

And this woman who works in health care, she was there in her scrubs, and she had her four-year-old son with her.

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Skipper was arrested in Bennettsville recently and brought back here, and this morning he and Adel Hodges faced Acting Recorder Broadfoot on the two larceny cases.

Uh, Adel Hodges was found not guilty as to the tools.

H.A. Ezell testified that he missed his tools when he went to start up the mill after Christmas, and while searching for them, he saw Cam Faircloth, who told him about having someone shoveling under his smokehouse and stealing about 400 pounds of meat.

First on the list is Eckerin Frazier.

Bromage finds Frazier at the Evansville Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

He is 11 years into a sentence for offenses unrelated to the Neiman murder.

Prior to meeting with Frazier, Bromage and jail personnel search Frazier's cell.