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Posted on February 12, 2003 Senate approves two Sanford Cabinet appointees The Associated Press The Senate confirmed Gov. Mark Sanford's nominees for directors at the Social Services and Insurance departments Wednesday. Kim Aydlette was approved as DSS director and Ernst Csiszar won a second term as Insurance director. In her Senate confirmation hearing, Aydlette said incidents involving a Lexington day-care center have been a learning experience. Aydlette said she met with the parent of a child that was bitten more than a dozen times when some children were left unsupervised. The center was closed, then allowed to reopen. Now DSS says the Bright Ideas Child Development Center in Lexington County should be closed because it failed to complete paperwork on time. Aydlette said it was a mistake to allow the center to reopen. She said she has developed ideas for procedural changes and accepts "the responsibility to use this case to improve the system at DSS." She says she'll try to work through budget cuts facing the agency and try to protect front-line workers. Csiszar is the only Cabinet member appointed by former Gov. Jim Hodges that Sanford kept. Hodges, a Democrat, lost to Republican Sanford in the November election. The department regulates insurance companies and the rates they charge in South Carolina. Csiszar has been pushing efforts to expand the number of insurers doing business in the state. Many companies stop writing business in South Carolina because of what they called restrictive rate regulations. "There are still companies out there that paint us with the same brush," Csiszar said. |
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