EMPTY, EXPIRED POSITIONS RAMPANT IN STATE GOVERNMENT
A year ago this website reported on a rash of vacancies and expired terms on the S.C. State Ethics Commission (SCSEC) – the agency that’s tasked with holding the vast majority of Palmetto State politicians accountable for their actions.
Missed that story? Click HERE.
In that post, we opined that vacant and expired terms on state boards and commissions were bad because they enable the politicians who appoint them to “exercise complete control over” their decisions. We called that a “recipe for all sorts of corruption.”
And whaddya know, we were right …
Anyway, it turns out the ethics commission isn’t the only state entity with vacancies and expired terms. According to Andy Brack of Statehouse Report, the problem is rampant.
“There’s still a bunch of people serving in state positions who haven’t been reappointed by the governor, legislature or other group,” Brack notes.
In fact S.C. Secretary of State Mark Hammond has created a database showing all of the unexpired or vacant terms – and it’s more than fifty pages long. Granted most of the list is comprised of agencies that shouldn’t exist (Soil Classifiers Advisory Council, anyone?), but there were a few recognizable entities contained in Hammond’s report.
Among the notable agencies? The Board of Education, the Board of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services and the Commission on Higher Education (CHE).
Our takeaway? South Carolina’s government is in desperate need of major shrinkage – a mass purging of unnecessary bureaucracies, boards, commissions and programs. Once it identifies the handful of core functions that ought to be performed, it must not permit necessary appointments to lapse.
Not only is it illegal, it breeds the sort of corruption our leaders ought to be rooting out …
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Let’s start with removing Haley in November. There problem solved.
Haley is just the tip of the ice berg.
Haley is just one more chunk of ice floating in the bay.
pray for summer.
Just another brick in the wall…
I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn’t like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why.
PRO TIP:
Marry a woman with small hands. They make your cock look bigger…
Are you saying people thought it was about masturbation because Roger Waters balloon hands made his cock look smaller?
Yeah Sheheen “Is gonna change it all.” Where have I heard that creepy song, sung before. LMAO.
It could be much wors in SC, just look at the country, and mess your lord god Obama has made. Haley has flatly rejected Obama’s dangerous policies for SC. That has helped, and it’s her TOP reason to be re-elected. So you’re SOL.
Obama has done more damage to your party brand than the GOP could ever do. I thank him for that. But we still have a BIG MESS to clean up, once we finish kicking you Dumb@$$#$ out of office.
Your tax dollars will do that. SC taxpayers have multi-millions to pay for her blunders, hell, she might even get elected again and screw us more.
Last time I looked, Haley had produced jobs, during a HORRIBLE Obama job market, nationally. You can lie, and eat $#!* sandwiches all day long, as Dumb F*#ks like you do. But any governor who can tread water, in the Mess your lord-god Obama has made, deserves credit.
Leave it up to you, and we get Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid elected. And you’re so F*#king Stupid, you probably do @$$-to-Face sit-ups while they provide the crack for you. Dumb@$$…
U looked wrong, stupid.
Good start, but another republican shithead will replace her, this is SC shit land, remember ?
S.C. State Ethics Commission (SCSEC) – the agency that’s tasked with holding the vast majority of Palmetto State politicians accountable for their actions. <<<< ROFLMAO!!!! Like they really do anything??? Its just a title .. .a name … And if you are on the board, you get an egotistical narcissistic license plate for your $70,000.00 automobile – and and and – you get to go 25 (+) miles per hour over the posted speed limit, run red lights, you get to fail to yield the right of way, check on your taxes, play golf for free …. yeah …. Nothing could be finer than to live in Carolina. Meanwhile, you got a few thousand pitchforks I can borrow? I need to hand them out to the tens of thousands standing in line wanting to kick some ass.
“Haley Cant Run Lemonade Stand”
DHEC now shuts down kids trying to do so, pretty soon that idiom will be removed from the language because eventually we’ll have to have a government permit to take a shit.
Companies get permits to do essentially that all over the rest of us.
I’d love to be on the Ethics Commission!
Like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, “heads would roll”
The ethics committees in the House and Senate, as well as the State ethics commission is a joke! These committees and the commission is one reason ethics is lacking in the Palmetto State!
When I worked in State Govt., I forwarded complaints to all, their rulings were a sham!
I feel this was part of the reason Haley removed me from my job.
I had too much trash on some and filed complaints, a personal vendetta and political payback to a powerful Senator!
I found out quickly what, and who Haley truly was!
‘too much trash on some and filed complaints, a personal vendetta and political payback’
—– some details, please
Anyone with a fully developed conscience is forbidden from participating in South Carolina politics.
Do the open positions pay as well as the $117,000 position she just handed to Mike Campbell?
You LOVE big government DUMB-@$$, so STFU…You made it like that. Too bad you are so filthy, you cannot get your idiots elected. Suck it @$$hole. LMAO…
What? No link to your blog, did you finally realize what a failed attempt it was and take it down?
You better hope my news site stays up. FITS would have nothing to report if he did not take it from me, and feed your Stupid @$$ with it. You are probably still jerking off over the gay marriage gestapo…not realizing it just hurts your Dumb@$$ democrat candidates: LMAO…
So let’s do an experiment, you take your site down for a week and we’ll see if anyone notices.
I’ve noticed you’ve stopped the links to your blog. Did Will lay down the law, and you were all, “Yes sir, yes sir!!!”?
A typical lazy-@$$ liberal. If it’s not spoon-fed to you, you are lost. FITS is probably the only news you ever read…LMAO…
You tell ’em, cuz!
I saw a post referring to your blog on a Facebook page by Emily Peterkin.
“Did Will lay down the law”
Sic should if he cares about the rest of the readers here and wants to protect his property.
There’s only a couple of people that are universally hated here and add virtually nothing(or to quote Euwe, are “value destroyers”-LMAO!) and we all know to who I’m referring.
Lost trust 2, open checkbooks wide for another Campbell ! Real proof, SC is full of DUMB fuckers.
Agencies serving vulnerable children show a stark difference:
For the SC Children’s Trust Fund all seven members are current.
For First Steps: six of eight members are expired. For First Steps Babynet- all nineteen members are expired- some terms ended six years ago.
Governor Haley know First Steps is a disaster. She vetoed First Steps reauthorization legislation saying after a decade of operation there was no compelling evidence that First Steps was working and they had serious and persistent problems honoring their
legal commitment to undergo a performance audit every three years.
http://governor.sc.gov/ExecutiveOffice/Documents/H.3428%20First%20Steps%20Veto.PDF
The legislative audit council’s audit of Fist Steps cited multiple missteps by the First Steps board of trustees including the fact that eight of the seventeen current trustees have expired terms ranging in length from two to forty-two months and that trustees of the First Steps board have not adequately attended meetings and have made decisions without a quorum.
In the midst the of the DSS debacle, there are 2 expired terms (2005), one of them Laura Hudson, on the Child Fatality Advisory Board.
“Granted most of the list is comprised of agencies”
Granted most of the list comprises agencies
Granted most of the list is composed of agencies
comprised =/ composed
Albeit indirectly and unintended, Obama finally did something good. This is GREAT News. Just like the budget shortfall led to the firing of regulation-pushing government workers. We have too many government-related stooges as it is. I’d say reduce the size of these boards and become more efficient.
Just like Obama’s horrible economy led to cutting government staff. Let’s make the leftist bureaucrats pay for the failure of their gods. BRAVO!!!!…and thank you Gov. Haley.
Once again Sic Willie regales us with his engineering/scientific knowledge. Soil classification? Is it clay or sandy loam or just plain sand? Why do we care? If you are going to build on it, you better know what you are dealing with. But to Sic Willie it is just like food production. It just happens. No technology or science involved. Why the “free market” will protect us. Right?
The free market is just another god in the pantheon of superstitious libertarians. It has cosmic powers derived from the ideals of freedom and liberty and does not inherit any of the natural flaws of the humans that created it.
All other systems that are recognized by man as elements of civilization are false gods, fighting against the “natural, fundamental order” of things… libertarian things… gods.
“libertarian politicians”
The whole of your diatribe falls on its face when the radical definition of libertarian is applied, for under that premise there would be no “libertarian politicians”.
Regardless, I understand why you can make the argument, purely on the basis of those who self identify as such…who really aren’t.
“libertarian” as a word has lost its meaning for the most part
The whole of your diatribe falls on its face when the radical definition of libertarian is applied, for under that premise there would be no “libertarian politicians”.
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The same problem exists when the radical definition of communism is applied, for under that premise there would be no “communist politicians” either.
Both dissolve into Utopian bliss.
In some respects I don’t disagree, but I know far more libertarians acknowledging the imperfection of mankind as a constant(and unsolvable) reality versus the communist mechanations surrounding the “perfection of man”.
Communists kill imperfect men in order to purify “the system” so that it will be ready for true believers… reminds me of the tea party – only they just want control… they won’t kill their opponents with the 2nd amendment solut… wait!
TBG’s gods:
Gods of The Copybook Headings
Danny Ford
The Free Market
Speaking of Danny Ford, I head this joke from Ralphie May on the Big Show this morning:
“Yea, I’ve got a personal trainer to help control my weight, he’s out of Canada, you probably know him, Rob Ford.”
How about your art?
art is where the om is.
Bez is a god, too.
I don’t get complaining about volunteer boards that don’t really have any spending powers. They’re there to aid legislators at making their decisions and they’re not really costing much to the state for those services.
Exactly. Who really cares. I know I don’t.
Here’s an embarrassing quote for all you egghead libertarians…
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.” – Albert Einstein.
How is that an “embarrassing quote for all you egghead libertarians”? Even our founders described government as “a necessary evil”. There may be more of Einstein’s quote which you have not divulge but the quote you provide doesn’t say he thinks government is good. A free and civilized society does need laws and rules to a degree.
I guess you’re right, he didn’t explicitly say peace was good.
During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress created over 3,000 committees. SOCIALIST SCUM.
“I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan.”
“I made one great mistake in my life… when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made”
Einstein, a smart man that made mistakes.
Libertarians – smart people making mistakes… and dumb ones too.
It’s a human condition, not a political one, equally applied to everyone regardless of the label they wear or are given.
SC General Assembly threw an unopposed Daniel Ravenel off the CofC board back in April but have yet to announce / post the applications for his replacement.
I wonder if Sanford traded board positions for “line-crossing” posoitions, and that’s why he kept them filled?
So many of the board positions are empty because the people have learned they have no power to do or change anything anyway. It’s like being on the innumerable committees within the South Carolina BAR. Members are expected to vote exactly as Queen Jean has already said one should vote or go home. Period. End of story. I eased off of my committee and went on home. It was not worth the fight.
I went to one of those stupid SC Bar Committee meetings and everybody was glad handing me and telling me all the wonderful things we would be doing. First thing I knew some Seymour girl who obviously works directly for Toal took over and told us exactly what we would be approving and exactly how it would be done. Period. All I could think about was who the hell was this bitch and how in hell could she get by in such an an ugly outfit and flat hair and still work for Queen Jean? Who is this woman?
No confident intelligent lawyer would join these committees, but for getting favors from Toal. Like Betsy Gray and her kind.
I quit that committee and am quietly practicing law in tasteful suits, silk blouses and comfortable 1″ inch heels. I am happy with my practice and life and have no intention of serving mankind with these stupid committees that have no power. I actually had my hair re-styled after seeing this beady eyed, flat haired bitch.
I looked at about a dozen pages of Mark Hammond’s database. Some of the people have terms that don’t expire until 2015. Why are they listed?
On the other hand, some positions have not been appointed/reappointed for 10+ years by entities like the Board of DNR. The Legislature has done a pisspoor job of keeping up with their appointees, too.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were appointed to a board, I would be contacting the person who appointed me to let them know my term had expired.
There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Reggie Hammond.
You gotta wonder how they are going to remake that movie(successfully that is).
You mean “another 48 hours?”
No, I mean the new one coming out with no Eddie Murphy….a 48 hours without Eddie Murphy? I just can’t see it.
Godzilla without a rubber suit.
Precisely.
State law requires the Secretary of State to publicize vacancies, expired terms, and those terms expiring within one year on a semiannual basis. That’s why some terms expiring in 2015 are included.
Thanks.
Lisa Van Riper was appointed to First Steps board as the parent of a young child. Now she is the parent of a young GRANDCHILD. I mean really? She sits in meetings singing songs about poor misunderstood First Steps (specifically, “How do you solve a problem like Maria (First Steps)”. 4 REELZ.
THINK ITS TIME TO GO DATA B?
AND HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE FIRST STEPS? Appoint sane board members, maybe?
She’s a gramma from a teen pregnancy then. Constitutional Christian hypocrite.
First Steps is crony capitalism for the private for-profit daycares.
Shut ’em down….who needs ’em?