Columbia Star Business Editor John Temple Ligon accompanies the Congressman on his journey. Columbia Star Business Editor John Temple Ligon joins Congressman Joe Wilson for a day on his Real Results Bus Tour

Monday morning, August 15, Congressman Joe Wilson (R–SC) kicked off his annual Real Results Bus Tour through all 10 counties of SC’s Second Congressional District. The tour took a week. The first day’s stops included Lizard’s Thicket on Elmwood Avenue for breakfast, USC’s College of Engineering, Reach Out and Read at Children and Family Health Care, Fort Jackson’s Soldiers Support Institute, FN Manufacturing, The Village at Sandhill (Talbot’s), Blythewood High School, Park Ridge Surgery Center, Love Chevrolet Hummer Dealership, and a District Quarterly Meeting in the Irmo Town Hall Courthouse that night. The Columbia Star rode the first day.

Congressman Wilson at Reach Out and Read Photo by John Temple Ligon

FN President/CEO Jean–Louis Vanderstraeten presents commemorative Renaissance Browning nine millimeter pistol to WWII Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Charles Murray. Congressman Wilson visits Fort Jackson. With him are Roxanne Wilson, Brigadier General Gina Farrisee, and Command Sergeant Major Mitchell Lewis.\ Congressman Wilson talks with Blythewood High School Principal Dr. Sharon Buddin, Patrick Dukes, Ciara Lawhorn, and media specialist Amy Whitfield about their new school. At Blythewood High School, Congressman Wilson meets School Resource Officer Deputy Odell Glenn. Congressman Wilson and Todd Walters (Kahn Development) visit at Talbot’s in the Village at Sandhill. In the background is Washington office attorney/legislative assistant Dino Teppara. Capt. Andrew J. Meetze of Irmo, SC welcomed Congressman Wilson at the US Army Finance School in the Soldier Support Institute at Fort Jackson. Congressman Wilson visited Blythewood High School journalism teacher Kim Stokes.