SC minority business leaders say paperwork ‘quotas’ in state law never met their goal

SC minority business leaders say paperwork ‘quotas’ in state law never met their goal

Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg talks with legislators in the House chamber on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (File photo by Mary Ann Chastain/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)In the nearly 40 years since Diane Sumpter founded her business consulting firm DESA Inc., she’s held millions of dollars’ worth of federal government contracts all over the country. But it’s been years since she’s done any business with her home state of South Carolina. “So…