SOUTH CAROLINA’S “ETHICS” LAWS ARE ONCE AGAIN BEING ROUTINELY VIOLATED
We’ve written extensively in the past about how Spartanburg County, S.C. ( population 284,307) has seven different public school districts “serving” its student population compared to neighboring Greenville County, S.C. (population 451,225), which has just one.
Is there any universe in which such waste and duplication is [...]
State Representative In Hot Water Over Educrat Emails
One Vote Could Sink SC Educrats’ Exploitation
We hear excuses every day from status quo backers in Columbia as to why South Carolina’s public education system is so atrocious.
It’s poverty, they say. Or racism. Or insufficient funding. Or it’s the fault of parents. Then there’s our favorite excuse – that the ongoing debate over parental choice has “shifted our leaders’ focus away [...]
Spartanburg Educrats’ Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Exposed
By Neil Mellen || Spartanburg is a solidly Republican County.
In 2010, 56 percent of general election voters their cast their ballots for Republicans Nikki Haley (Governor) and Mick Zais (Superintendent of Education).
Officials at the local public schools lean a bit further left politically.
Since 2008, the seven district superintendents in Spartanburg County have [...]
More On USC’s Lobbying Tab
By FITSNews || Nearly a week after the fact, La Socialista – a.k.a. The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper – has finally picked up a Gannett report regarding Clemson University’s exorbitant taxpayer-funded lobbying tab.
Good for them, right?
Of course, all the newspaper really did was reprint the original Gannett story, well … adding the sub-headline “School way [...]
Lobbyists Treated To “Rock Star” Parking
Taxpayer-funded lobbyists pull down the big bucks in South Carolina – as much as $221,500 a year, in fact – but it’s their “rock star” parking spaces that are suddenly generating some ill will from the lawmakers they hit up for funding each year.
One lobbyist, in particular, has attracted some unwanted attention as a result [...]
The Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Charade Continues
Quick … what’s more disgusting than forcing S.C. taxpayers to pick up the tab for a bunch of full-time lobbyists whose job consists of begging state lawmakers to spend additional taxpayer money?
That’s easy … sanctimoniously bashing the practice when you don’t have a leg to stand on …
Before we pull back the scab on one [...]
Taxpayer Funded Lobbying On The Rise In SC
YOUR MONEY BEING IS SPENT TO SPEND EVEN MORE OF YOUR MONEY
FITSNews – June 19, 2008 – Every year, House Majority Leader Jim Merrill introduces a bill that would ban the budget-busting practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying in South Carolina … and every year big government backers in the Republican Party team up with the Democrats [...]
