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Rom Reddy: Who Is Really Making the Laws in South Carolina?

“This is exactly what our Founders warned against…”

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9 comments

Nanker Phelge January 6, 2026 at 10:30 pm

“We built proprietary artificial intelligence tools…”

Haha…how can anyone take this jabroni seriously?

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LOL January 7, 2026 at 5:34 am

And then didn’t provide the actual analysis, but just a “trust me bro” article.

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Been there, done that January 7, 2026 at 6:22 am

When the legislature directs an agency to promulgate regulations to implement the legislation, those regulations have to go through a public notice and legislative review prior to going into effect. There is ample opportunity for public input and legislative oversight/denial of regulations that do not follow the intent of the law. Our legislature would never get anything done if they were that far down in the grass determining the processes and details of implementing policy/law.

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Anonymous January 11, 2026 at 12:03 pm

Putting notices on media websites or in printed editions is not effective.

Notices should be mailed to every address’s across the state. Otherwise, note many are alerted. They are unlawfully having their rights violated by secret government activities

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Commonman Top fan January 7, 2026 at 8:48 am

Regulations and Provisos are the vehicles where agencies and public and private sector lobbyists make their living. Through language of a proviso, public funds can be directed to one entity who is the only entity capable of providing the service required. Public notice is what exactly? Is it posting an agenda on a message board outside the Committee office? That definitely makes the public from the mountains to the sea aware. After a Rule or Regulation is introduced, what is the time period for the General Assembly to act or does it simply become law after a period of inaction? The media will report when they are spoon fed stories, so citizens have to lead. The state budget is in the billions and it should be scrutinized. Higher Education and their Boards and Presidents run their own fiefdoms with no real outside supervision. Has any legislator looked at the Lottery Commission and its revenues and expenditures? One of the biggest state agencies, but where is the oversight? I have never met Mr. Reddy, but I applaud his efforts to address the efficiency and accountability of our state government.

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SubZeroIQ January 7, 2026 at 11:23 am

The regulatory state is a big issue on the federal level, too. And, at some level, it is a power struggle between the legislative branch and the executive branch since agencies are part of the latter and agency heads are typically appointed by the chief executive.
And that power struggle is arbitrated by the judicial branch which magically determines if the regulation is permissible “regulatory gloss” on a statute; and sometimes the judicial branch even adds its “judicial gloss” on a statute with the judiciary itself determining whether its “judicial gloss” were permissible.
So, any reform effort always ends in the lap of a tyrannical and self-serving judiciary which, a la rigueur, jettisons its pretenses of being the “non-political/a-political branch of government” and engages in brazen demagoguery in published opinions and hidden racketeering in unpublished opinions or even in concealing/falsifying case dockets.
Also, remember recent scandalous act of SC’s supreme court sending its unnamed “sources” to give FITSNews a false victimhood story of being threatened by state senators?
What is the answer then? Science. Legislating science. Enacting laws requiring every regulation, every statute eve, to have a set goal AND a set of sound experiments to determine if the statutes/regs in reality accomplish what they aim/purport to accomplish with a “sunset” date for all statutes/regs at the end of the experiment period. That means new post-experiment statutes/regs for the one that passed the experiment and repeal of the statutes/regs which failed the experiment.
Did the founders of this Republic have science in mind as a pillar of government?
Yes!
First, several founders were scientists. Benjamin Franklin and his kites and printing improvements. Thomas Jefferson with his innovative architecture. Even the farmers among them were heirs to lessons of crop failure and of Mendelian inheritance in improving animal husbandry and plant seeds.
Second, “learned counsel” is never limited in any founding document or contemporary documents to learned in the law. It must have meant learned in all the sciences of the day.
Let’s see if Messieurs Reddy and Folks hate doctors more than they claim to love government efficiency.
And again, both should be striving for government effectiveness first, with efficiency only as a tool for effectiveness, or go coercive-control themselves.

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SubZeroIQ January 7, 2026 at 12:19 pm

All things are related one way or another.
And Mr. Reddy was already attacked for being a naturalized, as opposed to natural-born, citizen.
Even in the Shaheen-Haley gubernatorial matches, Vincent Shaheen, himself a third-generation Lebanese immigrant attacked Nikki Haley for being only a second-generation East Indian immigrant.
As is something in South Carolina’s air were purifying to the soul, or a South Carolina birth (which Pamela Evette lacks) confers magical governing power and prowess.
And of course, to answer any criticism, or even take the offensive, all politicians are demagoguing the immigration issue.
So, to separate true respect of the law from cynical ploys, I ask this:
What does Nancy Mace propose to do about U.S. “citizens” who FALSELY accuse perfectly lawful immigrants of being “illegals” for those “citizens” to gain unfair advantages over the perfectly-lawful immigrants in civil litigation?
Heck! What does Nancy Mace propose to do about “citizens” who literally steal the property of perfectly-lawful immigrants then threaten those immigrants against reporting the thefts to police?
As usual, I have audio and video recordings. If Nancy Mace were sincere, she should contact me. She knows who I am.
That “citizen” who falsely accused me of being “an illegal” is one Larry Wayne Mason, who once had 101 indictments for embezzling from the U.S. Army plus one indictment of impersonating a chief warrant officer.
And in case Nancy Mace is really interested in domestic violence, that same Larry Wayne Mason’s second wife, Ella Faye Kizer Mason, was shot in the head with Larry Mason’s gun, in Larry Mason’s home and in his sole presence in 1993; but Larry was never prosecuted for it.
And BTW, that same Larry Wayne Mason’s first-born son by Larry’s first wife, Richard Wayne Mason, also died in April 2016 from a gunshot wound to the head from Larry Mason’s gun in Larry Mason’s home and in his sole presence.
Both times Larry Mason pretended the victim shot him/herself despite forensic analysis showing the fatal shot fired from over six feet.
Every time I tried to have law enforcement look into those domestic deaths, Larry Wayne Mason FALSELY accused me of being an illegal alien.
Again, I have the letter he wrote to politicians. What does Nancy Mace propose to do about protecting lawfully-admitted immigrant talent and treasure from cynical citizens?

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Bill Sandifer's Panamanian Hooker Top fan January 7, 2026 at 10:06 pm

This is the dumbest looney tune since phillip branton

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Anonymous January 11, 2026 at 11:58 am

I shake my head at dishonest attorneys. One failed in private practice. DSS has hired Deserves to have action taken against their license.

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