ANOTHER POLITICAL SCANDAL HITS THE REDNECK RIVIERA
There’s an election in Horry County, S.C. this coming week … (insert your joke here).
It’s a runoff election for an open seat on county council, and our interest level in who wins or loses is nonexistent. Less than nonexistent, actually. The “Redneck Riviera” has become a blight on the Palmetto State,
Well … until a local paper alleged that one of the candidates attempted to bribe the other to drop out of the race.
According to the Grand Strand Daily, county council candidate Bob Kelly and his consultant Jim Wiles “offered opponent Bubba Owens a bribe to quit the runoff election.”
Hold up … there’s a candidate named “Bubba?” And he’s not the one offering the (alleged) bribe?
Too funny …
Specifically, Wiles is accused of leaving a voicemail for his rival campaign manager telling him to “put together a shopping list of stuff that they would want for downtown Myrtle Beach for Bob Kelly to commit to in exchange for Bubba dropping out.”
Hmmmm …
Wiles called the story a “hit job” and said that the editor of the paper has a business relationship with Owens’ campaign consultant, Donald Smith (who runs a company called Lucky Dog productions). Smith and the editor of Grand Strand Daily, Paul Gable, host an internet talk show together.
Anyway, Wiles denied any impropriety and said his candidate was “confident of victory.”
As we’ve said repeatedly, we lost all faith in elected officials in this neck of the woods in the aftermath of the “Coastal Kickback” scam – perhaps the most brazen pay-to-play scandal in South Carolina history. We just assume anyone who runs for public office there is as dirty as the water.
And as criminal as the people they seek to lead …
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” The “Redneck Riviera” has become a blight on the Palmetto State,”
Agreed, if the state of SC was to take a crap, Myrtle Beach would need a wiping.
Been here since 1997, have gone twice. My wife was used to going at least twice a year. MB makes Daytona seem ritzy and classy and Daytona is a blight. Florida boy comes to the Carolinas he wants to see some mountains.
There’s a bit of hyperbole in my description. I just don’t like the place anymore. Grew to detest it when I had to make frequent trips down there when working for the state. Now, when I was in high and in the service, I made frequent to MB. not anymore.
When your a young buck you look for trashy places where everyone is drunk and stupid. Past the age of 25, not so much. I was a slow learner, late 30s for me before I quit living the Animal House lifestyle.
I gave it up in my late twenties, got married when I was thirty. Not much “animal housing” for me after my late twenties. I was stationed in Charleston (Navy) for three years in the sixties. I used to load up my Mustang and then later an Olds 442 and go up there many a time, even on weekday nights.It was fun back then, too bad I can’t replicate the thrill.
yea right . fla. boy yo ass. maybe via new yawk
Criminal Justice, as it pertains to Myrtle Beach, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses.
Instead, it’s a 24/7 cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from hour to hour, day to day, month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides, trading hats and milking the taxpayers
Most of context borrowed from Matt Taibbi
Sounds like they have their own Filthy FITS publication down there. That’s the joke that needs to be inserted.
Sounds like they have their own Filthy
FITSSCPD publication down there. That’s the joke that needs to be inserted.So are you saying SCPD is successful at the beach? I thought you base your reason for living, and your belief that SCPD failed???
Caught in another LIE, it seems. Politico will be thrilled…LMAO…
South Carolina Pedo Department
would be a blog flip would start.
So you are admitting SCPD was filthy?…LMAO…I don’t need to say anything about possible “success”. I’m only going on your lying claim about it’s supposed “success”. Only a huge dumbass would quit something if it was truly “successful”….oh wait, maybe it was then.
Please don’t conjure up the image of him inserting his joke.
fluffer
This whole thing pains me greatly. I’ve known Don Smith for 30 years. I like him. He produced a local cable talk show for which I was co-host, cast me in many commercials, got me gigs emceeing contests and other events at local venues, etc., etc. Kind of an amazing guy, in a lot of ways. Drove a Delorean at 26, even though he did not come from a wealthy family. And just like Oliver “Bubba” Owens (who I don’t know personally), appears by certain family trees and gedcoms to be related to me. (Which is neither here nor there, for most of you, but means something to me.)
I’ve been friends with Paul Gable for 7 years, and with Jim Wiles for 5. I know both of them personally. Neither are from around here, and both have been accused of being “carpetbaggers” — a charge that Gable now lobbs at fellow Yankee transplant Bob Kelly. He does that without the slightest sense of irony, too. Weird.
Paul once told me that if an investigative reporter gets too much involved with politicians, he loses his integrity as a journalist. That has clearly happened with him. He’s done some great reporting over the years. But when it comes to anything that involves Smith or one of his clients, he is more likely to write a puff piece than to do a hard-hitting investigation. This extends beyond just his promo posts for “Big Talk”, the show he does that is produced by Smith which also features long-time Smith associates John Bonsignor and “Bananna Jack” Murphy. He has written glowingly about Smith, and about several of his close associates — and has generally supported whoever Smith supports in local elections. That did not include Tom Rice, however, for whom Smith was a consultant in his run for Horry County Council Chairman. That, apparently, pre-dated their current business relationship.
Wiles did not offer a bribe. He offered the opportunity to form a coalition to beat the Democrat that much of the “elite white blue-dog Dem” money, connected to the MBA Chamber of Commerce. Standard Operating Procedure around here. Compare it to the bribes and threats of the political elites who have spent millions in local elections on dirty tricks and black ops against “opposition” candidates, and it does not amount to a popcorn fart in a hurricane.
Gable, in the past, has not often taken dismissals of charges against politicians to mean that they were not really guilty. Suddenly, when commenting on Bubba’s extensive rap sheet, he has changed his tune entirely. Hmmmmm ….
Worst of all, Gable and Smith now seem to be aligned with Andre Bauer’s majordomo, convicted felon Jay Specter and that sleazebag’s boy, perpetual loser candidate Keith Van Winkle. KVW lost in his bid for the nomination, then they took off after Kelly and Wiles They are back to their old tricks of putting out fake mailers and robocalls, purported to be from the team they are opposing.
Gable cannot possibly be unaware of this, but he is pretending to be. That is so he and Smith can disavow any association with it, or with Specter and Van Winkle. This all stinks to high heaven — and the worst stink is coming from Andre’s Dirty Duo, a certain “Lucky Dog” and his running dog Yankee transplant.
The whole thing wreaks of incest, amateurism and nutjobs.
In other words: It’s PERFECT for FITS, that FITS-like Beach Gossip website and Boz….
When you people get off on bashing South Carolina…go look in the mirror. You are our state, at our most embarrassing.
Tango, quit hogging the binoculars! I let you in on stalking Boz but now you’re starting to rain on my parade!
HAW!
flip, your getting old and lazy.
Down to using just one profile today?
Is logging in and out of Disqus so much causing your fingers to cramp?
It’s too bad I can’t file workers comp because I don’t actually work for a living. I’m on welfare already though so not like it matters. LMAO!!! LMAO!!!
Keep stalking.I OWN your mind.Amazing I can control your life 24/7.
Mister flip, please quit sending me pictures of your penis.
I’m in middle school…
Be nice Boz.
Why are you calling me Boz?
Why is an old man trying to contact a middle school aged kid?
Haven’t you heard of NAMBLA? There’s nothing wrong with me or flip doing what we do!
THAT’S IT! I’m calling my lawyer! I will NOT be harassed like this, even though I harass others 500 times worse! LMAO!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOME RUN!!!! Boz is a joke in Horry County.
If I’m a joke, I hope the hell you are not the punch line. That routine would die in any venue.
I’m going to burn every ounce of time and effort trying to disparage you, that will prove I’m not the joke! LMAO!!! LMAO!!!
Boz disparages himself every time he posts a comment or opens his mouth.Check out his history.I don’t have to help him do that.
Quit talking to yourself, flip.
Give it up…
flip lives in your mind.I love it.
No, you live here, on FitsNews…..24/7.
flip owns you. ha ha ha ha
I own a sleeping bag and I sleep in the corner of the room. I have my PC set to ding every time someone comments so I can wake back up and reply. I work very hard for a welfare recipient, too bad nothing I do is productive though. LMAO!!!!
Boz Martin
April 7, 2012
11:48 PM
Tom, you might as well use your own name. Everybody knows it’s you.
Paul (Gable) is a terrific investigative reporter and everyone knows that too. That’s exactly why you don’t like him.
http://grandstranddaily.com/coast-director-blasts-council/
Boz lies so much.He loves this Gable.
Actually, that was not Tom Rice. It was his wife Wrenzie. Drunken loon that she is.
How do you know that? Gable shared that with you?Why does Rice and his wife put up with this from you? What do you have on them, if anything?
People at saw her at the Dunes Club late one night, drunker’n Cooter Brown, cussing about Gable revealing it was her, and firing off all that insane shit on her SmartPhone about calling the Capitol Police, The Secret Service, and The Sergeant-At-Arms of the House and getting me and a shitload of other people — including Gable and Folks, arrested for talking about her trolling of Gable. She told people at the table what she was doing, besotted maniac that she is.
So Gable shared IP addresses of contributors with YOU? Are you saying Fits News does as well?
Gable did not share it with anyone. He outed her for it on the blog.
btw, why are you so intent on defending that family of Democrats?
Fits is a Democrat?
Dredging up someone’s post from over 3 years ago?
You’ve got some serious psychological problems flip.
Hell I may go back 15 years if he keeps attacking my grandchildren.I ain’t even started. :)
Chambergate Investigation Still on Track
AUGUST 27, 2013 8:00 AMVIEWS: 814
By Paul Gable
David Wren of the Sun News reported last evening that the Chambergate investigation into 2009 political donations, by a host of local LLC’s that had no income, was continuing.
The article stated an investigator with the IRS had confirmed the investigation was ongoing into political donations by these LLC’s whose principals have ties to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
According to Wren’s article, the investigator contacted the Sun News last week requesting documents the paper had obtained regarding the political donations.
This report confirms rumblings we have been hearing for some months now that the investigation was continuing and indictments from a federal grand jury would be coming down in the case.
The investigation began in early 2010 and we have been told by several attorneys experienced with federal public corruption cases that 4 ½ – 5 years is not an unusual investigative time frame. If something breaks in late September, it would actually be ahead of schedule.
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Boz’s buddy Gable.Two peas in a pod.Only thing that happened out of the Chambergate investigation is David Wren and TSN lost a judgement for $650,000 to Mark Kelley.
Still hung up on that old crap story. Money not collected. Money that will never have to change hands. A dead case that will never become case law. Fit only for hosers like you to use to try to shut people up.
Paul Gable
June 25, 2012
4:01 PM
If by some miracle Tom wins on Tuesday, the county wins because we will get rid of him as chairman. He’s not qualified to be in the House, but he’s demonstrated he’s not qualified to be county chairman either. Maybe getting him 400 miles away would be a plus. Who knows.
Boz Martin
June 25, 2012
6:14 PM
Right on every point in the article and in that comment, Paul. keep up the good work.
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This says it all.
In your twisted mind, maybe it does.
Boz Martin 2 years ago
Hopefully, this guy going nuts and getting canned will wake a lot of people up to what a zoo the HCPD is. Maybe it will even prompt more people to look at the Doris Holt case with new eyes and recognize that all of Paul Gable’s reporting on it has been legit, and based n the facts of the case.
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Facebook.Paul and Boz.Says it all.
That reporting was, indeed, legit.
It’s “reeks”, btw, not “wreaks” — which can either be a misspelling of “wrecks”, or the proper spelling of a rare old English verb meaning “to bring about.”
Examples of using all of these words properly in a sentence:
“You are a wretched wreck who reeks of ignorance, bile, piss and venom — and who wreaks havoc on logic and sane political discourse.”
What are your talking about?…
PS: I hope you and FITS are not getting another publication sued for libel. McClatchy is used to losing millions because it’s an establishment-media liberal rag, that people have abandoned in droves. So the $650K, you and that hack Wren cost them, is chicken feed. I doubt the small local guy can absorb that in the cause to attack the candidates you, and FITS, hate.
Many of my comments are being deleted by FitsNews with my Disqus accounts so I got rid of the accounts.I guess Fits wants to play games.
FitsNews/Will(?) keeps deleting my comments.Oh well- as long as Will is happy and not beating on women, I am happy.
Back to flip and ‘others’….later
Total crap. You’re deleting your own comments. Playing the “oh poor me” drama queen this evening.
No Boz.I am getting an ‘icon’ of a clock and a warning on my posts that my comments are subject to approval by FitsNews.Many don’t post.I do notice Fits allows your racist comments about my grandchildren, comments of pedophilia and that one of my sons is retarded even though he know him.
I have deleted my Disqus accounts the last couple of days.Why have an account if my comments just disappear?
Will figure it out.
If only we could find a way to make all of your comments disappear, everyone here would be much happier.
Will knows your son? Really?
Pray, tell us more about this. You are, supposedly, 1000 different people. You most consistent personal narrative is bizarre in the extreme, and can’t be taken seriously. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING NAME anyone can really associate with you.
If you do have a son, mentally challenged or otherwise, how the hell would Will even know he was yours?
None of my children are freeloading degenerates that live off their mother or father.
Gainfully employed with college degrees.You wouldn’t understand.
If my kids did need help, I steal enough welfare from the government to pay for all of them! LMAO!!!
I’m the one that’s mentally challenged, not my son. You people always get that mixed up, isn’t it obvious though? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s a clue: when Disqus decides your flavor-of-the-day ID is violating their terms and conditions, you are toast.
For example, if I click on “Dem A. Knotzi’s” icon, Disqus says “Uh-oh… Something didn’t work”. Same thing for “Hank ‘flip’ Geepers”, “Flip Coscoe”, “Grand Tango”, “GrandTango” (for just a little variety), “Sandi Morals”, and maybe the least imaginative — back in January — “guest”. All failed Disqus identities.
That does not begin to list all the phony guest identities, like “fc”, “guest (Guest)” — that was truly brilliant! — “flip”, “Hitler would be proud”, “Slaps the shit out of you!”
This merely scratches the surface.
Yeah cause none of my posts get deleted.
Did you try hitting the delete button like I do? I mean, I got hacked! I mean, Will Folks deleted my shit! I mean, my lawyer advised me to stop coming here! I mean…. LMAO!!!!!!!
Rocky, I wish these moronic and loser liberals had your sense of humor.I have never met a more decent socialist than you.Can’t we have a little fun on Fits? :)
Looks like I’m going to try and get some strange. Cheating on GrandTango? LMAO!!!!
You appear to be very interested in me stalker? Keeping a notebook?
For an old man without a soul I figured you would have other interests?
Just one notebook? Amateur. I have twenty notebooks on Boz alone, along with pictures, print outs of his comments, toenail clippings, locks of hair, used napkins, and all that good stuff taped on my closet walls. I call it my Boz shrine! Me and GrandTango make out in it and I pretend he’s Boz. Oh my! Don’t tell GrandTango it’s hard to find someone that will actually love me back. LMAO!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re funny Rocky.
Will should have banned me long ago because I’m ruining the comments section with my constant stalking and badgering of everyone here! LMAO!!!! LMAO!!!
He has essentially banned me by censoring many of my comments?
Guess he could ban me.If he does I have enjoyed my time on Fits destroying the myths of liberalism and exposing the corruption/perversion of the liberal mind. No hard feelings.
No, you delete your own comments, because you embarrased yoyrself again.
Why don’t you just ban yourself for good, T Lawrence?
You’re deleting your own comments, of course. You’ve done it before, and complained of “censorship.” I’ve deleted comments of my own in the past, but I’ve always owned up to it.
You’re an idiot.Who ya gonna get sued next with your babbling bull shit?
I’m gonna get my cousin lawyer and we are going to sue everyone here for hurting my feelings! LMAO!!!
He likes the site.He liked SCPD better but that is another story.He is very political.Good friends with Attorney General Mike DeWine in Ohio.Mike is from Greene County and my cousin practices law in the same county.
Well Will isn’t censoring them all so unfortunately he isn’t doing enough. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe if your posts didn’t include feces and gay sex you’de be better off. Ideas of substance – you know.
Can we just keep Buzz, relocate him down here to Charleston area, and sell that sewer off to NC for say $100 and a few pizzas? I mean, they get Flip part time out of the deal.
I love Charleston. Lived there for a while. It’s an amazing city.
Myrtle Beach is not all bad, if you live around here and know your way around. Conway area has many wonderful features, especially the architecture, history, and the rivers. Murrells Inlet, Pawleys, Brookgreen Gardens, much of GTown, Williamsburg, Horry, and Brunswick Counties — all of these make it worthwhile to live here.
All in all, a better place to live than to visit.
But, you forgot to include Atlantic Beach as an “amazing” town.
That’s not my cross-eyed bear, Paul. ;) Hang in, though. It could be even worse than there.
South Carolina Pedo Department is looking for new content.
NAMBLA members are always welcome.
You can contact me here….
https://plus.google.com/100362485793174211691
Sign me up! LMAO!!! LMAO!!!
Folks,
Not just Will. We need to realize we no longer have people who want to serve the public without filling their pockets.Our system is really in shambles. I knew a person who once ran on principle and won. That person found out real quickly without the majority he could get anything done of any consequence and was unwilling to stay longer than one term because he would not sell his vote or promise to vote for something that was useless to get any projects going. It is the system that we are in that is now destroying us and honestly I do not know the answer.
By the way this same person thinks anyone that has the ability to take your rights away,lawyer,Judge,policeman,etc should have to be polygraphed every so often for honesty’s sake. I know that opens up a can of worms and it would take revamping the system which it needs and court should be for finding the truth instead of a stage for Lawyers to act!
The answer is The People, but it’s a non-answer answer, because most have no time to become educated, don’t have the stomach for it, or the money. The answer IMHO, take party off the ballot, then only those educated enough would vote v. straight party ticket. A theory, but the best one have heard.
You would be surprised how many can not read the name of the person. By the way I have witnessed a person over a poll telling someone who to vote for and reported it! The system is being run by crooks simply because no one will stand up for the truth any longer.
I agree with you, but those who can’t read, don’t even know who or what they are voting for, I wish they did not vote in primaries. OR take party off he ballot during primaries and force them to become educated or not vote. I used to vote predominantly straight ticket, but even during my early years I did vote a couple times for other candidates based on policy or my particular beliefs at the time.
Calling voters stupid when you are one of the DUMBEST posters EVER on FitsNews?Uninformed and don’t believe in a damn thing except electing RINO’s and liberals.
Welcome back.
Hey there, darlin’.
I see pogo is still carrying the torch for you.
Please Boz.You told us all she is your friend and you two communicate all the time.Glad she is back.She is as worthless as you are on Fits and both of you are shining examples of how Obama got elected 2x’s.
Well, he sure as fuck did it without my vote. I’m sure, without hers either.
No, we don’t communicate all the time. That would be nice, but we don’t.
Forever vigilant – he must have a crush on me, is that stalking? :)
At least he carrying something besides nonsense – ha! ;)
Welcome back with a bang-calling people that don’t vote the way you like idiots.
Not sure who you hang around however 100% of the people in my core of family and friends are VERY educated people and informed on all things political.
You are gonna have to face the fact that even if you hide the (D) by a politicians name we know who and what they are.
All I ever do is talk about how the people that don’t vote the way I do aren’t human, how they need to be deported, how they are evil socialist liberal scum! Man I contradict myself at every turn don’t I! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
“how they need to be deported, how they are evil socialist liberal scum”
BINGO! You finally get it!
Wow I am a moron I just admitted to what I’m accusing other people of! LMAO!!!!
Ummmmm…Kemosabe…the 1st Congressional District?…aren’t these the same Godless airheads who elected Sure-I-Left-My-Wife-And-Four-Sons-Mark Sanford himself?
Why yes, Tonto—they ARE don’tcha know—so they deserve all the corrupt crap that gets dumped on them every time they elect another of their scumbag Lilliputian elfs !!!
Yes like the Clinton’s dumped on Arkansas and America for 50 years. We never learn do we?
Having a great economy and a budget surplus at the end of the term after inheriting a recession is shitting on America?
Thanks for reminding us. We’ll take that shit again.
It’s the 7th Congressional district.
Can we give 7th District back & let the 1st District have 2 votes?
Hillary on the verge of indictment, Million-Student-March lying about Hands-Up-Don’t Poop, and demanding Free Tuition..and this Stupid Son-of-a-Bitch is talking about a couple Rednecks, who are the spitting image of him…
Where does the Democrat Party get you Dumbasses???….Was there a Stupidity Bomb dropped on half the country…and no one told us about it???…LMAO…
It was for Boz?.Boz humilated FitsNews and damaged the this site, in my opinion, by leading Fits down the same dead end road he did TSN on the manufactured story of ‘chambergate’ and/or the ‘Myrtle Beach Mafia’.
Neither existed except in Boz’s and apparently this Gable’s mind.
Donald Smith should be reporting this to law enforcement not in a paper or on an online radio show.
Nah, he should not be reporting it anywhere, because it’s bullshit. Much, much worse is being done every single day by Specter and Van Winkle, on his client’s behalf. Being done less than two weeks after Specter stated, on an Horry GOP group page (when Keith was still running), that Bubba (a liquor distributor), “sells a product that, if used as intended, will kill you.”
Grand Strand Daily is not a newspaper, btw, it’s a blog. The Grand Strand extension of SC Hotline. Jeff Sewell has basically turned both blogs over to Gable now.
Boz, are you trying to get everybody sued again?Appears so.
Some blog: no one has been able to comment there for over a year. Keeps making excuses.
Why do keep visiting everyday?
Because FITSNews is my version of crack cocaine. I visit every 5 minutes not just every day. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve noticed that. Like “pogo”/”flip”/etc. there is the claim of having been hacked. But that was, as you say, over a year ago. Now, I’m starting to doubt that it ever happened. Oddest thing about it is that there is still the comment field there, as though you can actually comment. But you can’t.
The blog is pathetic. It was set up by that lunatic Jeff Sewell, way back when. At one point Sewell had said he was going to set one up for me. When it came time to do it, he tried to shake me down for money — when that had never been part of the deal. The reason that I never contributed any articles to the blog is that Paul was so tied to the unpredictable and unstable Sewell, and his “consultancy.”
Horry harridans.
Back to a peacetime avatar. Kudos to all the true veterans here.
Just saw a reference to FITS’ own, “The Buzzman”, on a post from a long-time friend (native) from Myrtle Beach. Don’t know who’s right or wrong in this one. Who would want to serve in elected office on Horry County is what comes to mind for me.
http://grandstranddaily.com/bubba-owens-again-targeted-by-kelly-campaign/
I don’t care what your positions on the issues are, if your name is “Bubba” you have my support!