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The campaign contributions and “in kind” help keep coming in for North Myrtle Beach District 1 candidate Jenna Dukes.
The most recent filings has Dukes banking $95,947.00.
Where did that money come from? If you guessed Developer Benjy Hardee and friends of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, you guessed right.
As Paul Gable of The Grand Strand Daily writes: Does she forget that it is the good ole’ boy cartel that is funding her campaign and that the cartel wants Worley replaced so its members can go forward with no restrictions on development and using county tax dollars to construct I-73, both of which will enrich their personal pocketbooks?
CAMPAIGN SIGNS ON A.O. HARDEE TRUCKS
Dukes’ campaign signs can be prominently seen on Benjy Hardee’s construction trucks. The Sun News points out that businesses owned by Hardee have paid Dukes over $9,000 in campaign contributions.
NOTE THE MANY MYRTLE BEACH DEVELOPER ADDRESSES
HUSBAND’S TIES TO BENJY HARDEE
As the GrandStrandDaily also writes:
More interesting, however, is the care Dukes apparently took to downplay her relationship to Hardee. She was said to tell one reporter that she knows the Hardee family and has ‘crossed paths with the developer because they both own businesses in the same area.’
According to a public record SEC filing, Dukes’ husband, Curtis Dukes, was one of two brokers on a land sale where Waterbridge Investments LLC, a company with Hardee and Doug Wendel as the principals, sold 226 lots in the Waterbridge area of Carolina Forest to Harbor Custom Development, Inc. of Gig Harbor, Washington.
According to the purchase and sale agreement dated June 10, 2020, Curtis Dukes and Ashley Gardner of Strategic Real Estate Advisors of Mt. Pleasant, SC were the two named brokers who would split 50/50 a “collective commission not to exceed $660,000.”
That sounds like a bit more interaction between Hardee and the Dukes than ‘occasionally crossing paths with the developer.’
Can developers and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce buy this North Myrtle Beach seat?
June 14th just ahead.