TO LOBBY OR NOT TO LOBBY … THAT IS THE QUESTION
The month of March 2012 was decision time for Columbia, S.C. DUI shyster Joe McCulloch. The fiscal liberal had to decide: Did he want to be a lawmaker? Or a lobbyist? Or both?
McCulloch chose “option C,” which we suppose is understandable under the circumstances. After all if there’s one thing we learned this year – it’s that sitting legislators can openly lobby state government without fear of reprisal (even though such activity is expressly forbidden by state law).
Anyway … mere days before he filed his paperwork to run for the S.C. State House, McCulloch also filed paperwork to lobby on behalf of the S.C. Nurse Anesthetists.
Hmmmmm …
We understand McCulloch isn’t getting paid for his work with this association (unlike S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley – who was compensated handsomely for her advocacy by a lobbyist principal), but he’s still a lobbyist. He’s also the second trial lawyer that the state’s left-leaning establishment has thrown against former Columbia, S.C. city councilman Kirkman Finlay – one of the few fiscally conservative Republicans on the ballot this fall.
Why does Finlay have a target on his back?
Easy … he’s going to be a solid pro-taxpayer vote. Finlay also has an unapologetically big personality, which has some “Republicans” at the S.C. State House nervous that he might not be as easily controlled as most members of the “GOP” Caucus.
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Finlay is a cocky, arrogant, prick who has never accomplished a damn thing on his own. Walked into a crap load of money and claims other’s success as his own.
Joe will be the only dem i will be voting for this cycle. Most of the people that actually know Finlay, hate him.
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Amy, why do they call him Mattress Joe?
Would a real fiscal conservative take federal farm subsidies for his alleged crops out in Richland County? Kirkman does.
Any time a man has a lot of experience at something, he will generally be better at doing that task that some one who is inexperienced. Any questions?
search at this link:
http://farm.ewg.org/search.php?fips=45079®ionname=RichlandCounty,SouthCarolina
Finlay’s government handouts:
USDA subsidy information for
Kirkman Finlay III
Recipient’s ownership share(s)
Recipient: County Percentage
Share*
Two Rivers Farm LLC Richland County, South Carolina 0.0 %
Gonzales Land & Timber LLC Kershaw County, South Carolina 100.0 %
Richland County, South Carolina 0.0 %
Gonzales Land And Timber LLC received payments totaling $1,053,676 from 1995 through 2011
Year Conservation Subsidies Disaster Subsidies Commodity Subsidies Total USDA Subsidies
1995-2011
1995 $0 $0 $0 $0
1996 $0 $0 $0 $0
1997 $0 $0 $0 $0
1998 $4,897 $0 $2,508 $7,405
1999 $-2,208 $0 $64,727 $62,519
2000 $0 $0 $117,578 $117,578
2001 $0 $0 $61,648 $61,648
2002 $0 $0 $103,418 $103,418
2003 $0 $8,957 $44,505 $53,462
2004 $0 $0 $60,412 $60,412
2005 $0 $43,553 $137,712 $181,265
2006 $0 $0 $88,428 $88,428
2007 $0 $0 $59,425 $59,425
2008 $0 $72,217 $49,097 $121,314
2009 $0 $0 $54,835 $54,835
2010 $0 $0 $41,967 $41,967
2011 $0 $0 $40,000 $40,000
Total $2,689 $124,727 $926,260 $1,053,676
Crop Summary for Gonzales Land And Timber LLC
Crop Payments 1995-2011
Corn Subsidies** $416,400
Wheat Subsidies** $160,044
Cotton Subsidies** $129,274
Soybean Subsidies** $97,083
Oat Subsidies** $726
Sorghum Subsidies** $533
Sunflower Subsidies** $191
Barley Subsidies** $34
Counties where payments were made from
County Subsidy Payments 1995-2011
Sumter County, South Carolina $7,705
Richland County, South Carolina $1,032,056
Kershaw County, South Carolina $13,915
Total $1,053,676
Two Rivers Farm LLC received payments totaling $46,438 from 1995 through 2011
Year Conservation Subsidies Disaster Subsidies Commodity Subsidies Total USDA Subsidies
1995-2011
1995 $0 $0 $-538 $-538
1996 $0 $0 $0 $0
1997 $0 $0 $0 $0
1998 $0 $0 $0 $0
1999 $0 $0 $0 $0
2000 $9,364 $0 $0 $9,364
2001 $2,087 $0 $0 $2,087
2002 $2,087 $0 $0 $2,087
2003 $2,087 $0 $0 $2,087
2004 $2,087 $0 $0 $2,087
2005 $7,782 $0 $0 $7,782
2006 $3,656 $0 $0 $3,656
2007 $3,656 $0 $0 $3,656
2008 $3,656 $0 $0 $3,656
2009 $2,086 $0 $0 $2,086
2010 $4,928 $0 $0 $4,928
2011 $3,500 $0 $0 $3,500
Total $46,976 $0 $-538 $46,438
DUI Shyster? Who represented you Sic? Was he a shyster too? Or, is it just lawyers that don’t represent your interests who are shysters?
I like lawyer jokes – think most are funny as hell. I know everyone hates us, until they need us that is.
As for Finlay, he’s a dickhead. He can take his KA frat beard and his holier than though BS somewhere else. He’s typical tea bagger “Do as I say, not as I do” when it comes to fiscal matters. Just like those stupid old tea bagging morons at all those rallies who say “Tell the government to keep their hands off my Medicare!”
The DUI shyster comment is a little much.
Lawyers are trained, and employed in the law. It would seem actual legal training and experience would be considered to be a significant attribute for a lawmaker, not something detrimental.
Solo attorneys are also small business owners. They are employers. They know first hand what taxes and government red-tape due to hold up the business community and our economy.
When picking a future lawmaker I’d take a small business owner with legal training over some salaried employee with no legal training anyday.
would you hire richard breibart,he stole thousands from
his clients, failed to tax returns, owes sc dept of revenue
over 200,000 in back taxes.and everyone said he was a good lawyer
“DUI shyster”
Says the women-beating coward.
I gave Joe money but regretted it when I saw he was representing the drink and drown bars in Five Points in his district rather than the embattled neighborhoods and parents.
Only thing worse than Joe in that race in Kirkman.
I’m shocked…absolutely shocked! Joe McC has clients who are bars…and they pay him!!!! And he represents them!!! Oh, the horror….
Look porchsitter, you’re probably ass-hole boy Kirkman so don’t give us that Repugnant Party bullshit. Go crawl back up Billy Folks’ butt…