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<PREFIX>Mr.</PREFIX>
<FIRST>Nathan</FIRST>
<MIDDLE></MIDDLE>
<LAST>Watkins</LAST>
<SUFFIX>Watkins</SUFFIX>
<TITLE>Owner</TITLE>
<ORGANIZATION>WATKINS SOUTHERN ORIGINALS LLC</ORGANIZATION>
<ADDR1>2 Hilda Ave</ADDR1>
<ADDR2></ADDR2>
<CITY>Beaufort</CITY>
<STATE>SC</STATE>
<ZIP>29907</ZIP>
<EMAIL>nathanwatkins933@yahoo.com</EMAIL>
<PHONE_H>8434414618</PHONE_H>
<PHONE_B>8434414618</PHONE_B>
<ISSUE>ECON</ISSUE>
<SUBJECT> "STILL"NO HELP AVAILABLE TO HELP US GROW OUR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEE SOUTH CAROLINIANS</SUBJECT>
<CUSTOM1>64.203.231.171</CUSTOM1>
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Dear Governor,
Last year I wrote you for help to get grants etc from the State to help further our business here in Beaufort and to help navigate the "ABSURD" red tape that was making EVERYTHING difficult. Mrs. Beth Webb who is AWESOME called me and then referred me to yet another states agency to see if the could help me.

While they were very nice, they simply referred me to yet ANOTHER dead end and told me there were no grants or loans for my type of business.

I have proceeded on my own and am having tremendous success and response as you can see on our Facebook Page or our YOUTUBE videos. We are now in several local stores and adding more all the time.

We have been approved and invited into Whole Foods Markets and numerous other National chains, but simply don't have the funds to purchase food stocks to fill the orders, and or vehicles to deliver if we did.

We are using the South Carolina Coastal Community Development Corp Commissary Kitchen for now to make our products, but are stuck due to lack of capital. In short we can IMMEDIATELY go into hundreds of stores and ship Nationwide from online orders, and most of all give local folks including many minorities good paying jobs helping us produce our products...but there is NO help for us at all.

Can I PLEASE come meet with you in person and anyone else who might help us give people a lifelong job and create growth right here in Beaufort??? I am VERY discouraged right now. Politicians say they want to create jobs, but it seems that's just words.

Thank You

Nathan P. Watkins
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