Shouldn’t we start requiring all candidates for public office to pass an IQ test?”

Is there any doubt that state officials lied to us about the gas tax hike and other fees?
Aided and abetted by Department of Transportation projections, gas tax backers did a snow job on the legislature.
This is the same kind of snow job SCANA lobbyists and executives did on lawmakers to pass a law to charge us $2 billion for their aborted nuclear project.
Lawmakers who receive hefty donations from the road construction industry were quick to fall into line. Why other lawmakers did not challenge the assumptions suggests they didn’t care or didn’t understand. 
Perhaps we should pass a law requiring candidates for public office to pass an IQ test.
Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a DOT critic who represents much of the area involved, told the Chronicle he did not expect it to be completed in his lifetime.
That may be optimistic. Our children’s children may be paying for this for generations.
Now DOT has to adopt a new Malfunction Junction strategy.
They sought design-build bidders unsuccessfully for the improvement of the interconnecting network of interstates 20, 26 and 126 west of Columbia, much of it in Lexington County.
Under state law, they needed at least 2 competitive bids. 
They got only 1.
Now they are dividing the long-overdue fix into 5 more manageable stages.
Stage 1 will be to improve the intersection of I-126 and Colonial Life Boulevard.
Stage 2 will be to improve I-20 at Broad River Road.
Stage 3 will be I-20 and I-26 and I-126 and I-26 including St. Andrews Road at I-26 and Bush River Road at I-20.
Stage 4 will be I-26 and Harbison Boulevard and relocating the Frontage Road. 
Stage 5 will widen I-26 west of St. Andrews Road.
DOT has given no estimate of the total costs of all 5 stages or when they might be completed.
Now about that IQ test ...
– JerryBellune@ yahoo.com