The bar WAS closed for the event. Green was asked to leave, but kept lurking around outside, waving at everyone through the door and window in a taunting way, etc.

He was asked to move on — several times — by Broadway at the Beach security officers, but refused. Finally, as an officer moved toward him to escort him away, Green shoved him and was immediately cuffed. The idiot did all this only 20 yards away from the security office!

Green and the other Starboard creeps did more than just crash parties, however. They also produced and placed extensive schlocky anti-McBride attack stuff, in all media. They were paid by a PAC run by banker Pete Pearce, one of the members of “The Committee”, a cabal of rich and powerful hoteliers and bankers which is said to be the REAL controlling power in Myrtle Beach — with Mayor Rhodes and most of the incumbents on Council who were running being basically bought and paid for by them — as, allegedly, the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

Currently, there is at least one ongoing investigations into the way that the widely unpopular Ad Tax funds may have been channelled to Rhodes, the incumbents, and several GOP politicos at the county and state level, in exchange for their having supported tax. The tax itself, on top of already excessive taxation in MB, was to make up for the shortfall resulting from the Powers That Be putting an end to bike rallies in the city limits, and going against state law regarding helmets. It should be noted that Katon Dawson (who didn’t get any of the donations) sought to poison the well against McBride, by holding a press conference to state that election of the former Mayor would in sure that Myrtle Beach would not get the national debates again in 2013.

McBride, also a Republican, was supported by an unlikely coalition of anti-tax Tea Party type Repubs, Libertarians, Ron Paulies, Democrats and independents. (I’m a “libertarian left” Democrat, myself).

The whole “fist-fights” (plural) issue, seized on and worked to death in the constant barrage of Starboard Communications’ attack ads and their “therealmarkmcbride” web site, was never quite as advertised. There was only ever one such incident, which was more of a shoving match than an actual fist-fight.

McBride had confronted Councilman Wayne Gray, at the behest of the city’s Risk Manager and other authorities, over an incident in which Gray was caught by a security guard getting a blow job from a subordinate city employee in the rear parking lot of Fuddruckers restaurant …

(Taking a break here to mention that if you’ve heard of the “Elmer Fudd” pending litigation involving the MB Area Chamber of Commerce, the Sun News, and a “John Doe” anonymous article commenter who went by the user ID of “Elmer Fudd”, alleged to be McBride — that ID was most likely a taunting reference to that incident.)

To continue … Mayor McBride cleared spectators from the courtroom, and began to address the issue. By his account of the incident on a recent radio show, he did this because he’d been advised that the City could be charged with sexual harassment by the female involved in giving Gray head. (Haw!)

When the incident was brought up, Gray lunged at him, and McBride naturally defended himself. The fight was broken up, McBride sought to press charges, but the City Manager prevailed on the Chief of Police not to let him do it.

Much of the media subsequently covered up the details of the incident, and anti-McBride forces have put out dis-information about it ever since.

McBride admitted in the campaign that some of the things mentioned in the attack ads were true, and others were based on truth, but grossly distorted. Some were clearly outright lies, too, such as the charge that he and his family were evicted from their home in Myrtle Beach. The realtor involved was present at a news conference to affirm that this was not the case, that the McBrides moved out after they had come to a mutual agreement, and he had not had any problems with them whatsoever. There was barely any coverage of that news conference in the local media, as is par for the course in this town where most of them (especially The Sun News) is said to be totally bought off by “The Committee”.

Whatever anyone thinks of McBride, the fact is that the “clean” Rhodes campaign, combined with the “dirty” Starboard-created campaign bought by “The Committee’s” PAC money, outspent the former Mayor by a factor of approximately 12 to 1 — and still managed to only beat him by about 500 votes!

Not exactly a mandate … and the grim prospect of a continuation of the harshly authoritarian policies and tactics of the Good Old Boy Country Club Republican Mafia that is the Rhodes regime has only deepened the north end vs. south end, haves vs. have-nots divide that has seemingly irrevocably split the Republican party and the city.

The fact that Mike Lowder managed to get elected, thanks largely to a “single shot” voting strategy aimed a keeping more than one incumbent Council member from getting back in, is the only silver lining to a very dark cloud that hangs over Myrtle Beach this week.

We are awaiting reports that the State Ethics Committee has finally gotten down to cases on “ChamberGate” (a.k.a. “FuddGate”), and that the alleged perps will soon get what’s coming to them.

Meanwhile, political reporter Lorena Anderson of The Sun News has threatened to sue me if I don’t stop speaking my mind about what I see as her role in the extensive cover-ups on all of the above …

And the sad, sorry saga continues …

- William Bozworth Martin
FRIEND OF FUDD FOREVER!

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I don’t doubt that Mike Green was sneaking around (which is the job of many political consultants anyway) but knowing what kind of rep Mark McBride has I wouldn’t be surprised if the liquor was flowing freely at the McBride camp that night and they put the Crocodile Rocks people up to harassing Mike Green.