Democratic Legislators Linked To Superintendent’s Slush Fund December 14, 2007
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REPS. GOVAN, COBB-HUNTER KNEE-DEEP IN CONTROVERSIAL “CHOICE” GRANT PROGRAM
FITSNews - December 14, 2007 - While it may not be as costly a porkfest as South Carolina’s scandalously non-competitive “competitive grants program,” the State Department of Education’s equally-oxymoronic Public Choice Innovation grant program could very well be emerging as Columbia’s newest legislative slush fund.
We wrote yesterday about the program’s questionable ties to South Carolina’s infamous green bean museum, but perhaps even more sinister is the breakdown of a $500,000 grant ostensibly awarded to Orangeburg County School District 4.
According to a State Department of Education e-mail obtained exclusively by FITSNews, State Rep. Jerry Govan and a company owned by de facto Speaker of the House Gilda Cobb-Hunter are listed as “partners” in the Orangeburg grant.
Both Govan’s name and the name of Cobb-Hunter’s company, CASA Family Systems, are highlighted in the e-mail below:
FITSNews has requested a copy of the Orangeburg School District 4 grant proposal from the S.C. Department of Education, but if it’s anything like the green bean grant there may be no way of knowing exactly who gets what percentage of the money earmarked to the partnership.
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Do you think Gilda and Dan Cooper share a common link with the EGG-Tooth? Come-on that woman has some f’d up teeth.
The number of grants, and the dollar amount of those grants, that go the the relatives and business partners of black members of the General Assembly is HUGE.
But of course to mention that would be considered “racist”. So I won’t. But if I were, I would check out that out.
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