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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gov. Mark Sanford doesn't find anything funny about the Hillarity Festival — one of numerous local events that are getting money under a grant program set up by state lawmakers.
Chester's Hillarity Festival — a September celebrations that features car shows and gospel music and is so-named because the town sits on a hill — was granted $5,500. The Flop-Eye Fish Festival in Great Falls got $3,500, and Spartanburg's Spring Fling Festival received $30,000.
"There may be some merit to the Hillarity Festival or any of these other local projects, but the problem is that we don't know because they were funded just because somebody asked for the money rather than through a real process to determine their value," Sanford said.
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