Comments on: New Lottery Director Should Resign, Permit Proper Search

By: clemson insider

clemson insider — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:55:15 +0000

Innovista is a tremendous failure and misuse of state funds, but as a scandal, it is the size of a bb beside the planet Jupiter when compared to the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI). CURI is located inside the old naval base at North Charleston. CURI is the boondoggle created by Glenn McConnell and Clemson President Jim Barker to exploit the funds available through CoEE. The attached link presents a vidio of the CURI site made by the Charleston Post and Courier.
http://www.charleston.net/videos/2008/jun/23/438/

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:44:16 +0000

omitted first line!! Gotta be a back staircase story here somewhere

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:39:49 +0000

By the time it’s discovered, she’ll be ready to step down and they’ll appoint another political hack

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:42:31 +0000

So what else is new? Look back to the original purpose of the sales tax and its increases along the way. Remember a penny for education? On the federal level how but the social security, highway, etc. “trust” funds. Literally they are just IOUs in a file cabinet because that money went into the general fund and the IOUs are not counted as part of the debt.

By: thetechspeaks

thetechspeaks — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:33:56 +0000

The SC Lottery was promoted from day one as way to get more money into the schools. What the good people of South Carolina thought they were voting on was a way to supplement and augment the education budget. What they actually got for their votes was a substitution (a bait and switch if you will). Really, why educate the masses and provide them the tools for critical thinking and deductive reasoning when it is much easier to to spoon feed them and grow an under-educated middle class tax base? SC is a great place to live and full of genuinely good people but the status quo will be the death of us all. What is going to take to get these self interested professional politicians out of office?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:46:36 +0000

I remember it the other way around: I thought the lottery money was originally intended to go towards funding in-state college scholarships and NOT to K-12 education…but that once the lottery passed the legislators started dipping into that money to fund a variety of K-12 spending like school buses.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:41 +0000

She lives over a hundred miles from Columbia…so we have another “cell phone” executive making over 220 grand a year. Maybe she will show up at the office once a week…after all, she’s gotta eat donuts somewhere.

When will the people get enough of this crap.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:45:22 +0000

How much money did the lottery take in this past year and how much of that money went to k-12?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:39:33 +0000

Under a COULD of scandal? I guess those so-called “education” funds from the lottery didn’t help the author either…

By: yessir

yessir — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:39:14 +0000

I have never ever been able to understand how this lady has gotten herself as high up the lady in as many things as she has been able to. When she was the Chamber Chair her job was some fancy title that meant secrretary in her husbands law office. She never lifted a finger as Chair cause she didn’t know how to do so. Then, because she fills a void of some sort all the states do gooders get her involved and appoint her to stuff.

All she did here was block out Dan Cooper so she could snag the job herself. It was thought that he, not Courson, had a lock on the job so much so that the race for W and M Chair was going on. Anyway, how can somebody with such little talent be propped up as much as she is?