For the first time in 20 years, the Lt. Governor of South Carolina is a Democrat. But Yancey McGill wasn’t elected by the voters — but the Republican-dominated State Senate.

With a resounding voice vote, senators elected McGill to the vacant Senate president pro tempore position. Immediately after the vote, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell resigned, pushing McGill, a Democrat, into the office that has been held by a Republican since in 1995.

McConnell was named the new president of the College of Charleston in March and assumes that office on July 1.

Proving that there is more of a Columbia Establishment Class rather than Republicans and Democrats in the State House, Senate powerbroker Hugh Leatherman moved up in rank yesterday as well.

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After a tongue-lashing from [Sen. Shane] Massey over concentrating too much power in Florence Republican Sen. Hugh K. Leatherman Sr., 83, the chamber voted 42-2 for Leatherman — the only nominee for the position.

Leatherman’s name is frequently mentioned in SC political circles as the go-to guy to get things done — or stopped.