SC Ethics Panel: Bigger Isn’t Better
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Isn’t bigger always better?
Nikki thinks so!
It’s easy – just hold your nose in the air and then follow the stink, the stink, the stink – (how many members on this panel?)
I disagree with you on this one, Willie. With a larger committee, there is a greater chance one of the members will have a ping of conscious and morality and act on it. It would be harder for one personality to dominate the final decision of the group. The most obvious analogy would be the present SC Supreme Court. Toal completely controls this court. Her judicial and attorney disciplinary system is more “known for its rigged hearings and hall passes” than these legislative committees could ever be. The SC Supreme Court needs at least 2 more members – and obviously 2 people who will stand up to Toal. It’s good to keep the conversation/debate going, but I disagree on this one.
The General Assembly is a joke, ethics reform is a joke, and apparently we do not demand better from those we elect. They all talk a good game, but that is all it is. We deserve better, but we amble down the party paths and elect the best talkers with no backbone to stand up for any of us. Look at the salaries and perks they give themselves and their family members and their staffers. We are in trouble. And by the way,if the Republican Party had recognized Ron Paul for one night and allowed him the spotlight before fading into the sunset, Mitt Romney would be President now. There were a lot of Ron Paul supporters who took that as an insult. Romney had the opportunity, but chose not to do the appropriate thing.
This Governor was ostensibly elected on “change.” Specifically, ethics reform, open government, efficient government.
SC is a legislative controlled state. Until the legislature is moved to make change it’s not going to happen. That can be done persuasively and with commonality of interest and goals, or persuasively with brute power and little commonality.
Haley had two choices to effect change:
1) Work cooperatively with the General Assmembly to find common ground among key members (read power centers) and bring about the reform. Instead, she chose to summarily poke them in the eye right out of the chute. She alienated not only leadership, but rank and file with her silly report cards and other grandstanding.
2) Co-opt the General Assmembly with an “end run” around them by applealing to the same enraged electorate that was ripe for the picking. Again, she couldn’t bring herself to muster the courage. One, she had no intention to walk the walk of ethics reform. Two, she has been much too busy preening for the national TV market via her appearances before think tanks, out of state campaigning, and kissing up to check writing special interest. Three, she has demonstrated her inability to be a chief executive.
The voters and the General Assembly recognize her for what she is: a complete imposter and fraud, an incompetent administrator, and one who has proven totally not fit for prime time.
She had set back any real chance of reform. Neither the GA nor the voters wish to empower her or any similarly ill-equipped future chief executive with real power..
Let the next purge begin in 2014. I don’t know how much more damage she can do than she has already done.
“Co-opt the General Assmembly with an “end run” around them by applealing to the same enraged electorate that was ripe for the picking. ”
lol…yes but the mob is fickle…and more interestingly history shows us that when they are truly enraged pols swing from lamp posts, trees or are lined up @ guillotene’s.
That’s the beauty of “democracy”, it gives the mob an outlet(voting) that is not only mostly ineffective but allows the cockroaches to scurry away with their ill gotten gains with little chance of the above danger.
A+
In a similar vein, inmates at the Broad River Correctional Facility have organized their first ever Iron Man Competition. To be known as the “DIG, SWIM and RUN” annual meet.
Just think if we made the ethic panel as big as the general assembly! Boy, that would sure be effective.
LMAO!
Who gives a shit about this anymore?
Will, it’s a little hard for you to judge White and Harrel for disclosure when your Libertea won’t do it, don’t you think?