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Outgoing South Carolina Lawmaker’s Controversial ‘Bikini Earmark’ Sparks Lawsuit
Lowcountry civil complaint could put secretive spending process under the microscope…
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Since Will chose to omit this info I’ll let the readers know – Chris Murphy was a REPUBLICAN lawmaker. Rest assured if he was a Democrat Will would have mentioned it.
Its the SC statehouse, they are almost ALL R legislators. We already knew that. Welcome to the game
In Will’s defense, a lot of these articles are paid for by his customers. So if he crosses Trump or other “powerful” people he will go back to being a two-bit blogger. Which he is now, but probably a well paid one.
So morally, journalistically, politically, he is useless. But he is a good businessman. We should respect that. We just need to remember the vast majority of what he and his people write here is bullshit. Take it with a grain of salt because it’s likely as inaccurate as your crazy uncle’s Facebook page.
This is the exact kind of fraud, lack of transparency and corruption SC taxpayers and citizens are sick of. When will the general assembly stop. And they say they don’t do this but they will give a yes vote to the same bs budget every year.
Good luck with trying to get a deposition of a state legislator regarding his official conduct relating to budgeting and appropriations. Last I checked they are immune from being placed in deposition for those types of things – it’s in the constitution. The courts say the privilege also covers their staffers. Their personal papers are also exempt from disclosure both in FOIA and in litigation. They are also immune to lawsuits for slander and defamation, and our courts have interpreted their level of immunity to be even broader than that of members of Congress. Their staffers have no protection in the state’s whistleblower act if they should ever come forward to reveal dirty deeds of their bosses – so they know they can be driven out, blackballed, and pretty much ruined if they cross their bosses. In other words, it’s damned nigh impossible to bring a corrupt state legislator to heel in the court system or elsewhere. They can lie and defame people with impunity, maintain a sphere of secrecy around their internal machinations, and destroy anyone in their circle who would dare speak out. The only entity that can really do anything about it is their respective legislative body itself, and we all know how that works out. It seems like there are some in the House who see the problems with all this and perhaps are going to make some changes, but time will tell – and the status quo traces back well over a hundred years. So don’t hold your breath…..
Article is useless without pics of taxpayer funded photo shoot.
I haven’t yet stopped celebrating Murphy’s resignation. The party is likely to go into next year.
Who would think of hiring this guy as their attorney??
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