Comments on: Somebody Else Is Taking A Vacation (With Your Money)

By: cd

cd — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:38:23 +0000

I am good friends with several members of that band. They are great for weddings and parties. I am also aware that they are smart with their money and stayed in less expensive digs down the street.

By: Commonman

Commonman — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:07:05 +0000

If it smells like an in state junket, walks like an in state junket, it probably is an in state junket. They were probably brainstorming about new and innovative ways to raise property taxes and place the blame on the state. Also, the cheap shot by madcock about years on King David’s dole is way off. Sic Willie was definitely not a high paid bureaucrat. But he was loyal, which is not a bad thing.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:46:39 +0000

In Anderson County, last year’s administrator and self-appointed King of the County, Joey Preston, took 40 employees with him to party at Hilton Head at this meeting. This year, since Joey Preston was outed, the new councy council sent 5 people and saved thousands of dollars. Preston was popular at the SCAC because he was a democrat and took tons of taxpayer money with him to spend on anyone for anything. The SCAC responded to the new Anderson Council by electing Preston’s last remaining devoted contact on council, Gracie Floyd (D), to the board against the objections of A. C. council chairman Eddie Moore because Floyd is nothing but an embarrassment to all of Anderson County with her actions. The SCAC is a democrat controlled liberal political organization that should be investicaged by the Attorney General.

By: Not Sayin', Just Sayin'

Not Sayin', Just Sayin' — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:06:47 +0000

Steve, why couldn’t this have been accomplished at the Columbia Metro Convention Center and near a hotel with rooms that cost alot less than $450 per night?

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:55:19 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for at least not wasting taxpayer resources as you bombard us with this bureaucratic diarrhea.

-FITS

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:38:41 +0000

Sic,
If you are going to mention the locale and the dance, at least mention the 21 hours of Institute of Government classes, sponsored by the USC Institute for Public Service and Policy Research and the Strom Thurmond Institute of Clemson; the 6 hours of seminars on topics ranging from Labor Law Updates to forming Public/Private Partnerships for Economic Development; the breakout sessions for groups that covered a variety of topics ranging from planning for the upcoming Census (SC will hopefully get that 7th Congressional seat if we do well in getting citizens to respond)to Solid Waste Recycling; and the legislative update sessions with the large number of State Legislators who attended. They covered both sides of the aisle from Sen. Larry Grooms to Sen. Brad Hutto – Rep. Rita Allison to Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter. Also, the keynote speaker was not Rep. John Spratt (who had been invited) but was USC Professor Blease Coleman, who gave a quite interesting lecture on the history of Home Rule in SC and likely future developments in the relationship between state government and local government. We were not lying in the sun with boom boxes like you; we were in class gathering information to help better serve the citizens.

PS: Sent from my home computer, not my public computer, and on my own time.

By: madcock

madcock — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:50:37 +0000

When will this idiocy stop!!! It’s horrible and unethical.

The public’s hard earned tax dollars should be used for what the founders intended: things like tax credits to subsidize the rich to send their little Marshalls and Muffys to exclusive private schools like Heathwood Hall, first class airline tickets for Nikki Haley, F-22 jets the Pentagon doesn’t want and can’t stay airborne, “abstinince only” sex education programs that teach kids that rubbers don’t work and if you get weak and have sex you deserve to catch an STD and get pregnant, and government health insurance for GOP congressman who decry government health insurance for the taxpayers as socialism.

And BTW, Fits, HOW MANY “privately-earned Roosevelts” would you have if you hadn’t spent years on the taxpayers dole as a servant of “King David” and “She Who Must Be Obeyed By Jim DeMint and Tom Davis”, and then parlayed the connections you made while feeding at the public trough into “clients?” I believe Ronald Reagan’s phrase for your ilk was “welfare queen.”

By: Look out, I'm next

Look out, I'm next — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:51:06 +0000

well Chesterfield, at least you got back to back state titles working for ya!

By: babafisa

babafisa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:44:08 +0000

Good article. Very well written

By: Concerned Parent

Concerned Parent — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:33:25 +0000

As a parent with a child in the SC public school system, I see firsthand the results of such wasteful and ludicrous spending.

Our state is struggling hard in these economic times.

Stop spending the state’s money in such a blatant, money-to-burn manner!

Chesterfield County Leaders, get your act together. You can do better.