RESTRUCTURING PLAN KNOCKS OUT NUMEROUS UPPER LEVEL BUREAUCRATS
Catherine Templeton isn’t running for Congress … but she has unsheathed her ax.
The director of South Carolina’s largest government agency announced a major administrative overhaul this week – one which will place pink slips in the boxes of forty-five upper level bureaucrats, according to multiple sources at the S.C. [...]
Major Shakeup At SCDHEC
Sources: Ken Ard Resignation Likely
S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard is considering stepping down as the state’s No. 2 elected official, sources tell FITS … apparently in an effort to preempt an expected indictment from S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office.
Rumors about Ard’s imminent resignation from office have precipitated all sorts of petty parlor games in the South Carolina Senate, [...]
Inside South Carolina’s “Other” Funds
Led by Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman, South Carolina lawmakers have spent the last few weeks bitching and moaning about how they have no choice but to fire teachers and let criminals roam free in your neighborhoods – all because Gov. Mark Sanford has yet to accept $740 million of federal bureaucratic bailout money (on [...]
Sources: Bad Blood Between Bauer, Eckstrom
S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom is privately “livid” with Lt. Governor Andre Bauer after the latter attempted to swipe the former’s transparency mantle last week.
Meanwhile, Bauer’s office is working diligently to undermine Eckstrom’s credibility while seeking to elevate the Lite gov’s stature in the debate.
Sources close to both politicians have confirmed there is indeed bad [...]
GOP Caves
In the latest example that Democrats are – and really always have been – in control of the S.C. House of Representatives, a local government funding pool that was to have been cut by $122 million will now only be “cut” by $50 million.
Republican leaders are giving up the $72 million in “cuts” because they’re [...]
Two More Bricks In The Wall
Don’t look now, but S.C. Governor Mark Sanford might actually be getting something done.
Yesterday, the S.C. House Judiciary Committee passed two bills that would give Sanford and future Palmetto State governors direct control over two troubled state agencies – the State Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (DDSN) and the Employment Security Commission (ESC).
Now if [...]
Tom Davis V. South Carolina’s 1895 Constitution
Beaufort Senator Tom Davis probably isn’t on your 2010 gubernatorial short list just yet, but after less than a month in office the former Chief of Staff to S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is already being invited to share the stage with some members of a pretty exclusive club.
Last week, Sen. Davis – along with former [...]
SC Revenue Crisis Deepens
South Carolina’s bleak revenue situation deteriorated even further this week as economists shaved another $138 million off of budget projections … another sign that we haven’t reached the end of the road on our state’s so-called “budget woes.”
Still, state government spending for FY 2008-09 stands at $6.6 billion – a 31% increase from five years [...]
Fees And Loons
It’s a pretty solid idea for South Carolina to take a step back and look at the $7 billion in fees its state agencies collect each year.
But putting State Senator David Thomas in charge of that effort? Seriously?
You’d have better luck letting a dyslexic sea otter babysit your toddler.
Anyway, in addition to the disturbing personage [...]
