JOHN TECKLENBURG PUTS A SELF-SERVING TWIST ON “COMMAND ECONOMICS”
To be clear: We don’t care who wins the Charleston, S.C. mayoral runoff race between fifth-term S.C. Rep. Leon Stavrinakis and local businessman John Tecklenburg. We won’t be endorsing in the November 17 showdown … nor do we have any real affinity for/ aversion to either candidate.
We’re far more interested in the latest Southern Charm drama, to be honest.
There is a story out about Tecklenburg that gives us cause for pause, though.
It appeared in last week’s editions of The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier – and involves his support for a one-year ban on new hotel construction on the Charleston peninsula.
“I just feel like we need to ask the question: When is enough enough in terms of hotel rooms on the peninsula?” Tecklenburg told the paper. “I really feel a need to make sure that Charleston has diversity within its economic development and future.”
Mmm-kay …
Ordinarily, we’d be content to offer some token criticism of this blatantly anti-free market position … something along the lines of “government has no business discriminating against certain types of businesses” or “capping the growth of hotels clearly isn’t a core function of government.”
“It’s bad enough government is involved in economic development in the first place,” we might have written. “But now it wants to dictate ‘diversity’ in those efforts?”
Yeah … something like that.
But Tecklenburg’s command economic nonsense deserve an additional helping of scorn and derision.
How come? Well, prior to announcing his support for a one-year moratorium on new hotels (which Stavrinakis opposes, by the way), Tecklenburg’s firm was the lead developer of a brand new 305-room Hyatt located … wait for it … in downtown Charleston’s historic district.
“In the vibrant historic district in downtown,” to be precise, according to the hotel’s website.
In fact the hotel opened less than three months ago …
So let’s get this straight: After making bank developing a new hotel in downtown Charleston – now Tecklenburg suddenly feels compelled to ask if there are too many hotel rooms on the peninsula?
Now he wants “diversity in economic development” in downtown Charleston?
Sheesh … sounds more to us like someone wants to abuse an office he hasn’t yet been elected to in an effort to crowd out the competition.
Astoundingly, none of the three Post and Courier reporters who contributed to the paper’s story bothered to call out this hypocrisy – meekly noting that “Tecklenburg’s employer had a role in the hotel boom.”
Ya think?
Again, we don’t have a dog in this fight (which at the moment is Tecklenburg’s to lose) … we just think the new frontrunner’s proposed hotel ban is shameful self-dealing.
Is it seriously too much to ask for a politician in this state to campaign on free market policies – the kind that provide no special benefits whatsoever to themselves or their employers but rather promote fairness and prosperity for all?
Apparently so …
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Yes the firm he works for was in charge of this, but John doesn’t work in that branch of the firm. Swing and a miss!
Hence the Courier’s real, actual journalists not bothering with it.
There’s a reason FitsNews is free.
That is one of the most profoundly naive statements that I have ever read. You are overdue for a trip to your neurologist.
It’s fact, not a statement.
You should also take a look at Johns ethics plan he outlined today. Something needed across SC, meanwhile Leon calls a press conference to let people know he doesn’t like a bike lane
Y’all thinking’ about selling White People, since it’s politically profitable, this time?
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Not very bright either.
Had to have them to build this country you are trying to steal for the lazy. the criminal and the stupid who elect Democrats.
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“fluffer”
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Why not. You sold slaves !
I’m not a Democrat. That was YOU selling the slaves. You still have them in some capacity.
Charleston was sacrificed to the Democrats a long time ago. So who really cares what they do?
It’s nothing but vice and corruption, with a billion dollar economy, that is rooted in the Slave Trade of the Democrats who preceded the current crop of liberal elitists.
Yeah, Charleston is a real awful place that nobody is moving to.
Charleston doesn’t have one of the strongest economies in SC either?
You’re totally wrong again, GrandTango.
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He said that………..seriously.
How fucking dumb can one shit-stain be?
like i care
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He could often be found on his knees, bobbing his head for the lord.
my dad used to fuck me in the ass.
Just like I did with my son….and his friends.
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Making fun of an anonymous commenter falls under protected speech.
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As if he could sue someone for comments he makes about himself?
What a totally clueless fucktard.
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Will knows one of my sons.He will take down your/other comments tonight or I Will have FitsNews served and gain access to the IP addresses of these damaging and defamatory comments tonight.
oh some of my comments were taken down. oh i am smug about this, was one of them
you are silly
I’m just expressing my sexuality. That isn’t a crime.
Many men ‘know’ my son. Right, GrandTango?
So that means I can sue you, flip, for making comments under my name.
Good to know. I’ll have my lawyer contact Will and get your IP address.
See you in court ;-)
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My posts remain. I guess I was totally full of shit.
I may be one of the dumbest dipshits to ever live.
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See ya in court.
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Why would you be there?
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You haven’t lived until flip has dry humped you for an hour. Those friction burns are a bitch, though.
Ignorance of real estate brokerage is prevalent in this FITS article and by numerous posts below.
brokers sit in the office and “a fucking joke” make policy, and the agents run wild
Maybe if Fitsnews founding editor would review his own history on CDV and it’s own articles published on the subject recently, it would be more hesitant to call others hypocrites.
Folks did his mea culpa on the CDV years ago. The fact that he did something stupid doesn’t forever remove his right to comment on the stupidity of others – if that was the rule ALL of us would just sit and stare at blank screens.
Do you really think that TECKLENBURG’S possition on development is hypocrisy. I am willing to pass on Will’s CDV, but he needs to be fair to others.
Everyone has an opinion, some people have two…
It does sound like Tickleburger is talking out of both sides of his head.
I suppose you have never had to enforce a policy or engage in any activity at your job that if you had the responsibility you eliminate that policy or stop that activity. If you have, does it make you a hypocrite?
Have I had to enforce rules that I disagreed with? Absolutely.
Have I changed rules that I previously enforced when I had a reason or the authority to do so? Absolutely.
Have I stopped performing functions that I thought were stupid once I had the chance to affect the change? Absolutely.
I don’t see that here – Tickleburger was free to act anyway he saw fit all along. The coincidences are just to coincidental here.
As a military man, shouldn’t you have more respect for the chain of command? You really wouldn’t enforce an order that you didn’t agree with? Not like gunning down little kids. Just something you’d do differently if you were ever the boss.
Is reading comprehension a struggle for you? My first line said I had to enforce orders I didn’t agree with all the time. I would do it joyfully, willingly and with exuberance. However, when I had an opportunity to change a stupid rule I changed the stupid rule.
“he needs to be fair to others.”
Where is the law that states that he does?
“Unfair / Unbalanced” means exactly what it says.
Ok. Tell The Colonel that I can bring up Will’s CDV any time also.
Usually when a politician’s motivations can not be identified or vaguely stated on a high profile issue, there is one thing that is usually certain, the tangible rewards for the glibness can substantial.
In a place like Charleston, where you have four or five hundred years of history unmarred by progress, money or material reward usually overpowers those non-revenue generating moral concepts. But who knows, I am just guessing, but sometimes the Holy City has a tough living up to its name.
His personal inequities aside, I’m more concerned with his use of the 2nd person tense. Now there is some hypocrisy considering he is the only employee.
Charleston has become nothing more than a giant toilet. I am glad I don’t live in that dump.
Well. Comments on this one have gone further off the rails than usual.