From the “people are starting to get it” file, a group of protestors recently picketed the Pee Dee real estate office of powerful S.C. Senate finance chairman Hugh Leatherman (RINO-Florence).
Their beef with the longtime liberal (and chief architect of South Carolina’s “Lost Decade“)? His refusal to send an Obamacare nullification bill that cleared the S.C. [...]
Hugh Leatherman’s Office Protested
SC Senate Wants Massive Tax Hikes On Motorists
While South Carolina state government pours hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain on its failing K-12 education system, bloated and duplicative higher education system, state-sponsored tourism marketing and so called “economic development” deals – its roads and bridges have fallen into disrepair (although the extent of that is up for debate).
Despite passing record-setting [...]
SC: No Camel Jockeys Allowed
Because South Carolina lawmakers have an inflated view of their own importance, they’ve forced Palmetto State taxpayers to shell out millions of dollars over the last few years for security upgrades at the S.C. State House.
The only problem? Like everything else in this ass backward state, the costly new measures don’t work – especially the [...]
Demand Your Handout!
Boeing got one … so should you.
We’re referring, of course, to capital loans based on the number of employees that you think you might be able to create if the state of South Carolina were to build you a brand spanking new facility.
In fact there’s a specific dollar amount you should keep in mind in [...]
Bobby Harrell Gums Boeing
The S.C. House of Representatives can’t take up the latest multimillion dollar handout for aircraft manufacturer Boeing until next week … but that’s not stopping its leader from tripping over himself to assure passage of the $120 million giveaway.
“This legislation is about jobs and our state’s responsibilities when it comes to core economic infrastructure needs,” [...]
Another Boeing Handout …
Courtesy of their corrupt elected officials, South Carolina taxpayers have already given aircraft manufacturer Boeing $900 million worth of taxpayer-funded incentives. On top of that Boeing gets subsidies courtesy of the U.S. Export-Import Bank not to mention billions of dollars annually in federal defense contracts.
But hey, the company is lining the pockets of South Carolina [...]
Hugh Leatherman’s School Choice Farce
This website has pointed out repeatedly that South Carolina is a state which has no interest in helping itself. Both the state’s elected officials and the people who re-elect them seem willing – or at least consigned to – languishing a century behind the rest of Western Civilization.
Don’t believe us? Look at the numbers …
Nowhere [...]
SC: Disabled State
For those of you who missed it, NPR – yes, NPR – released a major report last month entitled “Unfit to Work.” An impressive overview of the unsustainable nature of America’s disability benefit program, the report also ranked each state on the extent to which its working age population is drawing disability payments.
And guess what [...]
All Hail “Destructuring” In SC
For the last decade, reform-minded politicians in South Carolina have been pushing the notion of “government restructuring.” The idea is simple: To streamline government in such a manner that it costs less and works better.
Those two core goals – efficiency and accountability – ought to be at the heart of every proposal to restructure our [...]
The Littlest Digger’s “Concrete Corruption” Expands
Last week this website broke the story of powerful S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman’s secretive “concrete connection” – a.k.a. his undisclosed co-ownership of a Florence, S.C.-based concrete company which has been raking in big, sweet dollars from state government (even though paving work has been suspended across the state).
Curious? Absolutely …
Corrupt? Um … this [...]
Hugh Leatherman’s “Concrete” Corruption?
At a time when road work in the Palmetto State has literally ground to a standstill, a concrete firm co-owned by fiscally liberal S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman (RINO-Florence) in raking in cash from the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT).
In fact it has been for years …
Florence Concrete Products – founded by Leatherman in [...]
Boeing Dreamliner’s Nightmares Continue
DID SOUTH CAROLINA BET ON A LEMON?
A pair of federal agencies are launching investigation into Boeing’s Dreamliner aircraft after at least five separate incidents this week raised fresh concerns about the plane’s safety.
On Friday, a Dreamliner owned by All Nippon Airlines experienced an oil leak from one of its engines while on the ground at Miyazaki [...]
