Inside SC’s Alphabet Soup Government
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Will, I absolutely agree on this one. The PSC is historically a joke and totally political. For the commissioners it’s a plum job with a fat salary, nice trips and little heavy lifting. ORS was created to separate the functions, as you described but in typical Senate fanshion they were exempted from most State regulatory oversight. Mr. Scott is a fine lawyer, very qualified and a straight arrow to boot but totally indebted to PURC. This oversight committee is a strange oversight body made up of legislators and a couple of “public” members–who just happen to have close ties to ORS or the Legislature. Its clear the intent is for ORS to get their paws on the millions of Federal dollars that the Energy Office administers. Watch closely for the money to be generously flowing to the co-ops. This arrangement makes the B&CB a model agency by comparion and that’s sayin’ a lot! Tom Davis is right about this.
This is exactly the sort of thing Haley should be all over … unfortunately she seems to be more interested in declaring victory than actually achieving it.
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Sic, we need something on Timmy so Major C, OWB, and the gal with the sandy crack can go at it some more.
This one isn’t drawing flies, Sic. Needs a pic up there with one hot babe spankin’ another hot babe’s bare ass that’s your best one in a long time. I know you could find one like that with ABC’s on a blackboard in it someplace. Hot teacher and schoolgirl porn? Oh so non-PC and wrong, but/hence OH! so right!
– Boz Martin
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Below-the-SigLine(R) Gratuitous Swipe of the Day:
So Greg Hembree wants to be SC Senator. His daughter Nora Hembree is Media Communications Manager for “alleged” Fed probe target MBCC CEO/Prez Brad Dean. Hmmm …. does that mean when Brad Dean’s not throwing his weight around and making threats toward the media about pulling advertising, etc., Greg Hembree’s daughter Nora Hembree does it for him? Just askin’, coz I really, really don’t know …
Sic Willie, don’t you know that you can’t use the terms “eloquently” and “Tom Davis” in the same sentence as they are mutually exclusive?
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Amakudari in South Carolina!
A good follow-up to “Inside SC’s Alphabet Soup Government” might point out that amakudari, Japanese for “descent from heaven” (referring to the descent of Shinto gods from heaven to earth) isn’t limited to Japan. In the modern metaphor, “heaven” refers to the upper echelons of the civil service, the civil servant is the deity, and the earth is a private-sector corporation.
One such deity is the Shinto god who heads SC electric cooperatives. Before retiring from state senate judiciary staff, he was the go-to guy for the co-ops at the statehouse. His amakudari, of course, was his subsequent hiring as CEO of the co-op association. His star job qualification: He’d effortlessly be able to secure preferential treatment by state government for unregulated and unaccountable co-ops. (Co-ops are governed by a legion of generously compensated and well traveled (at ratepayer expense) trustees-for-life, after whose deaths, are almost always replaced of the co-op board by their spouses, sons or daughters. Think of the caste system and you get the idea of how SC co-ops operate.)
Breaking the chain of legislative tyranny will require elimination of amakudari and dumping the alphabet soup down the drain. At the very least co-ops need to be regulated by a public service commission that is held accountable and does not answer to a peculiar agency like the ORS that is in bed with the co-ops.
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