How Rom Reddy Sold Out South Carolina’s Reform Movement

Flip Flopping Will

Wow, FITS! Should I feel sorry for myself or should I feel vindicated, and twice in the same day.
First, let me briefly tell the part that does not directly concern you or Rom Reddy or your “Svengali,” Dylan Nolan.
Today, the U.K. Parliament passed a life-time smoking ban, meaning the smoking age will continue to rise by one year every year and those born in 2009 will never be able to legally purchase cigarettes in their lifetime. The hope is that by the time older smokers quit or die, and the 2009-and-after come of age, the U.K. will become a smoke-free country.
What does that have to do with me, a never-smoker?
When I was District Health Director of the Northern Neck of Virginia in 1989, I took the modest step of requiring the smokers among our staff and clients to not smoke inside the health department offices. but if they had to smoke, they should go outside for it. I was immediately accused of being a “tactless” tyrant, sexually harassed by immediate supervisor who was then twice my age but held half my degrees and offered to support my indoor-smoking ban in return for my belly dancing for him. Really. And when I wouldn’t, he fired me. I had also wanted to promote breast feeding and other healthy practices. I was accused of being uppity for pointing out that breast milk comes naturally sterile and protects babies from, among other things, risks of contamination of formula. That, too, happened on a literally industrial scale with an infant formula contamination crisis and factory closures in 2022-2023.
Back to your Svengali.
I’ve often written that someone you teach to lie for you today will lie to you tomorrow and will lie about you the day after.
You trained Dylan Nolan to throw red meat to your racist and immigrant-hating readers. He took that training to fleece an immigrant and feed him mirages of power.
Have you learned nothing from how you groomed Malicious Mandy Matney to demonize Paul Murdaugh and his father and grandfather? She wanted your company and when she couldn’t get it, she took the sources you taught her to develop and started her own podcast and wrote her own book. Perhaps Mark Tinsley will learn that lesson from Valerie Bauerlein, too.
But back again to your hurt feelings and hurt pocketbook.
South Carolinians want inefficient government because that is where their jobs or their welfare checks come from. After the textile industry went to Asia, no industry was left in South Carolina other than Government jobs, Fort Jackson, prisons, duplicate and triplicate law enforcement agencies and courts, etc.
What will all those people do if government is truly streamlined and made efficient?
What will school counselors do if students came naturally disciplined and teachers actually taught?
Heck! What will prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers do if people feared or loved God and refrained from crime solely because crime is wrong?
So, lick your wounds and stop finding people to demonize. Instead, think about ways to make the system science-based, not connections based, and have a good night.

Great article! It seemed something was off with him. They had been persistent on sending text so after so many, I had to answer of course. I’m sure they weren’t prepared for what I had to say. Honestly after the corruption from Dorchester county, SLED and solicitors office I don’t think anyone is prepared for answers.
On another note, let’s go Nancy!