African American Legislators Call Judicial Elections a 'Travesty' The fallout from the 2017 V.C. Summer Nuclear failure continues at the Statehouse. This year lawmakers are dealing with what may be the hard part of unwinding the debacle; what to do about state owned utility Santee Cooper. When the VC Summer project went belly-up in 2017, Santee Cooper’s share of the debt for the project was $4 Billion, increasing its' total debt to $8 Billion. The nuclear debacle immediately led to renewed calls