When Andre Bauer was a teenager, he would scavenge golf courses with his sister for stray golf balls, only to clean and repackage them in egg cartons to sell in the parking lot.

As a child accompanying his mother to Lexington County Republican Party meetings, Bauer would sell candy bars, and later, Christmas trees.

And in the late '90s, when constituents complained of potholes while Bauer was running for the S.C. House, he rented an asphalt truck from CR Jackson, grabbed a shovel and filled in the holes himself.

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