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Dark Money Group Targets S.C. Supreme Court Justice
A contentious race for the Palmetto State’s highest court is coming to a head…
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Interesting statutory “wrinkle”, to say the least!! Essentially a ‘mulligan’ for the Judicial Selection Committee …. however, unless the Committee’s composition has changed, I’m not sure it would make a difference in the long run. Time will tell …
Our politicians are jokes. None of them care about true justice – just power. They don’t even care what the optics are. We need to start over from scratch
In addition to this issue, we should also remember that the General Assembly: (a) exempts itself from FOIA, (b) does not list their staff salaries on the state’s employer database (all others are required to be listed if they pay over something like 60k), (c) their staff members are not protected by the state’s whistleblower act [meaning that if they raise an alarm about corruption in the legislature, they can be fired and blackballed without any legal remedy -it’s happened just in the last several years], (e) exempts themselves from any state inspector general jurisdiction, and lastly (f) they appear to have ironclad immunity for any type of lawsuit for slander/defamation. Add to that having the judiciary running scared of them, and you have effectively an oligarchy of about 8-10 high-powered legislators running the state.
John Canon Few’s last-minute withdrawal, is an act of extreme cowardice, arrogance, and selfishness, aided and abetted by FITSNews.
Had Few stayed in the race, the world would have seen how few, if any, votes he had, and for good reason.
He should have stayed in the race and taken his defeat like a man.
Instead, he decided to bring the temple down on his competitors and himself, and play the victim.
Contrast that with Ralph King Anderson, III, who is a real victim of physical disability but never complains and instead out-works all his colleagues.
Ralph King Anderson, III should be elected by acclamation. He shall, God willing, make the rest of us disabled in body but not mind proud.
Also related to John Cannon Few is Jenn Wood’s story today on a measly bond for a violent offender.
Here is my comment on that story:
Compare that to the miniscule under-$300 bond with no treatment required received by Katheryn Dennis Calhoun Ravanel after her drunk driving arrest last year or two years ago.
Then compare both to the humongous $40,000.00 (forty-thousand) bond I was given upon my false arrest on known-false charges of harassing my neighbor “in the first degree” by looking through my own window when that neighbor, Teresa Felicia Ingram-Jackson, was causing a commotion under that window and loudly and profanely berating a third neighbor.
I was also required to undergo mental examination before release, even after paying cash 10% of that bond which, adjusted for inflation amounts to about $60,000.00 (sixty-thousand) today.
That bond was not refunded to me until the charges were, than God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, dismissed WITH PREJUDICE. I requested interest but was denied.
Who pushed for that humongous bond? Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss, who KNEW before hand that said Ingram-Jackson was an unemployed college drop-out who “entertained” in her apartment at least one cocaine dealer, Cory/Corey Lamont Curry, convicted in 2001 by none other than Hatchet-for-Hire herself.
And who affirmed the denial of my request to convert my bond to unconditional PR bond AFTER a jury refused to convict me in the court of none other than Judge Clifton Newman?
None other that John Cannon Few, then Chief Judge of South Carolina’s Court of Appeals.
When “his honor” said that he is “proud of everything” he did as a jurist, that was a renewed metaphoric to my face.
BTW, that same Theres Ingram-Jackson, name deliberately misspelled by the City of Columbia, was later convicted of victimizing ME with disorderly conduct.
But the same City which hounded me for bonds for false charges never bothered TO THIS DAY to even collect the fine from that Ingram-Jackson woman, who CONTINUED to live in Columbia and to have at least one subsequent drug conviction there.
Is “the honorable” John Cannon Few “proud” of that unequal justice under the law during his tenure and by his own hands?