Presidential candidate Joe Biden to visit on Monday
BY T&D STAFF Wednesday, February 28, 2007U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the latest presidential candidate to announce he’ll be making a stop in Orangeburg on the road to the Democratic primaries.
Biden plans to visit with Orangeburg County Democrats at 8:30 a.m. Monday, March 5 at the Chestnut Grill. At this point, he plans to spend much of his day in the area, although plans are still being developed, according to friend Trip King of Columbia.
“There will be other events,” King said.
Biden has visited the state about a dozen times in the last 18 months, King said. He said the Delaware senator “has tremendous support in South Carolina.”
Biden is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to visit the Orangeburg area over the past year. The Democratic candidates will debate at South Carolina State University on April 26.
The candidates and one-time candidates who have visited Orangeburg include:
Political observers expect Orangeburg to garner the attention of Democratic candidates over the next year. It is a heavily Democratic county in a state slated to hold the first-in-the-South Democratic presidential primary.
Biden, a native of Pennsylvania, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the age of 29.
He spearheaded the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law, which aimed to increase funds spent on law enforcement. Biden also authored the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.
He served as chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations from 2001-2003 and chairman of the Judiciary Committee from 1987-1995.
Biden had a private law practice from 1968 to 1972 and has served as an adjunct professor at the Widener University School of Law since 1991. He has written about 11 books on foreign relations and domestic issues.
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