CREEPY, INCOMPETENT … AND RACIST
S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom is a loser of the first order … something this website has extensively documented over the years.
His personal life is an absolute disaster, and more importantly he’s not very good at his job.
Now we can add “racist” alongside “creepy” and “incompetent” to the list of adjectives we use to describe him …
During a meeting of the S.C. Budget and Control Board (SCBCB) this week, the scandal ravaged politician weighed in against a $6 million bailout for cash-strapped South Carolina State University – a predominantly black school which is currently facing financial difficulties due to mismanagement and corruption.
Oh, and a brewing national scandal due to its association with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).
For the record, we also opposed the S.C. State bailout – but then again we oppose taxpayer-funded higher education in general. It’s simply not a core function of government – and South Carolina’s bloated, duplicative system continues to waste money on “economic development” boondoggles.
Cut it loose, we say. Let colleges and universities pursue their destinies in the private sector.
Of course Eckstrom failed to make his case against the bailout on its financial merits. Instead, he launched into a tirade against the school based on the skin color of its attendees. Specifically, he singled out S.C. State students – saying they attended the historically black school because they “can’t get into these other schools,” which he later referred to as “historically white” schools.
Classy …
In one sense, Eckstrom has a point. South Carolina’s low-income and minority children are falling further behind their peers nationwide – but so are the state’s middle income white students. In fact a report released last year by the Palmetto Policy Forum revealed that low-income Florida students outscored all South Carolina students in fourth grade reading.
Terrible.
South Carolina’s chronic academic woes know no racial or socio-economic distinction … which is further evidence of a failed “one size fits all” government-run education monopoly that continues to produce abysmal results despite receiving roughly $10 billion a year.
Anyway …
Eckstrom could have said all that. He could have also articulated a free market vision for addressing the root problem. More specifically, he could have used the S.C. State bailout as an example of precisely what not to do (i.e. rewarding incompetence with additional taxpayer resources).
He didn’t do any of that, though … instead, he chose to make the entire debate about racial stereotyping.
Of course what do we expect from a “Republican” official? After all this is the party whose former chairman Katon Dawson – a member of a “whites only” country club – was recently tapped as a S.C. State trustee.
Black students in South Carolina are indeed struggling – mightily. But so are white students.
And that problem will never be fixed by dumping more money into failed institutions … because Democrats and “Republicans” in South Carolina have been doing that for decades.
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But his daughter has an ass made of candy.
I don’t know man, sure, all the pols deserve every bit of scorn we can dump on them. But if their kids stay out of politics we should leave’m alone IMO.
They didn’t get to pick these sociopaths for their parents.
Richard Eckstrom and his twin James Clyburn were separated at birth only to be reunited to resurrect South Carolina State University
Throw in Lindsey Graham and you have triplets.
Reverse oreo!
Broreo?….
“Brothas from a different motha…”
man Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan really messed with your head. there is no free market solution to providing a public good. you don’t question this when it comes to the street and plumbing outside your house but i guess you don’t have the foresight to think about how your kids will go to school. pony up an extra 30% and buy a house in a good school zone and shut the fuck up.
it all “just works” – like communism, you only have to “give it a boost.”
Spoken like a true ‘commie’rade,
Libertarians seem to think that their juvenile philosophy is akin to the motion of water, or the existence of the seasons.. a kind of system that parallels physical laws… the reason the constitution and the natural actions of man haven’t implemented the libertarian system is probably as baffling to them…
…but like a blind believer in the gods of their fathers, they have neither the capacity, nor the inclination to question the reasons why it isn’t obvious to everyone else why their particular vision is superior.
So my Dad, his god, yours, are human ? Why do you even post ?
The chicken – the Egg ?
Speaking of buying a house in a good school zone, has Will moved out of Columbia yet, or was that all talk?
Question answered. My comment prompted this post:
https://www.fitsnews.com/2014/05/01/programming-note-11/
Hey John,
Ask how the book is coming…..
“there is no free market solution to providing a public good. ”
Jesus, some of the shit posted here is so stupid it’s hard to believe people like you post it and get a bazillion thumbs up.
Go on, ignore thousands of years of commerce, trade, innovation,etc.
Sure, it was unfree markets that pulled man out of caves and trees, fuck, just hit me over the head with a fucking hammer. The bulk of humanity deserves to be ruled over I suppose so put me out of my fucking misery as I can’t believe the amount of stupidity I’m surrounded by sometimes.
You think MARKETS pulled the men out of the cave? MARKETS??? Oh, this is so rich. SO revisionist.
“The bulk of humanity deserves to be ruled over”? Are you LOKI, trying to save us from the illusion of FREEDOM? HAIL HYDRA, dude.
Problem with Eckstrom is that no one cares enough about him to hate him. He is just a nothing. Perhaps he will just vaporize.
Wow. This is an astute point. The position he is in is the same. I can get worked up over a Governor, a treasurer, and if I’m a farmer, I suppose a commissioner of agriculture, and as a parent, a super of education. But COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Most folk just don’t know enough to care about the position. If it was State Auditor, they might. Possibly.
It’s the pick and choose and opportunity to exclude that actually makes the private and charter schools, the proponents of ‘one size fits all’ because they are the ones who only have one size while the public schools have to serve all.
You people have surely learned the Rovian ‘attack your opponent for what you are doing yourselves’ dictum well. Unfortunately, that means that you are usually hypocrites, dissemblers and out and out liars…but, real good Christians.
B-but vouchers will absolutely guarantee every single child will get into a prestigious private school, especially poor, at-risk children!
As long as the Republican Party (my Party) coddles, accepts, and turns a blind eye to the likes of Mark Sanford, Richard Eckstrom, Thomas Ravenel, the Peelers, Bobby Harrell, Nikki Haley and a host of other criminals, loosers, adulterers, reprobates with moral and ethical failings. I will vote for anyone else! I have contributed; but, my money will NO longer go to the corruption, the Republican Party seems to, not only tolerate, but blindly accept!
I will either vote Libertarian or American Party when they have candidates!
Putting my money where my mouth is, I just sent a nice contribution to Tom Ervin and the American Party.
We ALL have to vote in the primary. That is the only meaningful vote we have in SC. Even then the incumbents have an unfair edge. The whole system is rotten, campaign finance, all these pacs, the individual voter is lost in the money flood. That combined with the fact that most people don’t seem to really care. Wonder why ?
“We ALL have to vote in the primary.” Except in Richland County where we can just sit back and let Darryl Jackson, Lillian McBride, James Smith and Joel Lourie tell us who they have decided is in their best interests with Jean Toal ratifying anything they do.
A bigger truth will not be uttered on this site today.
The problem w/ eliminating PACs and open funding to candidates…Liberals have the media, education, gov’t worker pacts and many other institutions. We can AT LEAST express a choice w/ our money, right now anyway.
I agree w/ you about incumbents. There should be a limit for incumbents for primary spending…That would make primaries more fair.
You got it, The reagan/Limbaugh/Bush ratification for republican rule/PAC/Fund. See KOCH Brothers plan for the New Amerika.
You’re not alone in the forest, my friend.
Thanks Fed. I taken alot of flak over what you just said, only I said it more than 4 years ago. The writting has been on the wall for a long time, ” The fox guards the hen house in SC “. At first I felt shame and betrayal voting for Sheheen against Nikki. Something inside me said ” where did she come from ” I think we now all know that money from elsewhere is ruling our state, for thier benefit, not ours. You named alot of them, not all. Thanks again.
You sound like a Dumb@$$ and a quitter.
Several of the Republicans you hate do not hold office or they are elected in districts, not statewide…
You sound like a Close-minded idiot. Like a liberal-Tarian..if you cannot have EVERYTHING, Exactly like your little media-led, narrow mind likes it…you’ll elect Democrats..
Simple-minded, Dumb F*#ks like you ARE the problem…
Tango, it will be funny to see how many stupid people vote Haley this time around.
Unfortunately, for Dumb@$$#$, like you…look at her democrat opponents…If you would rather have them…You are an IGNORANT MotherF*#k#R….
so be it
I know you are a Pub,. The rich control the govenment, the media, the law, do you agree ???
We need total reform, Palin/Stromberb act should be in forced now. We cannot afford delay on this important item. Global warming is a real issue, along with Bengazzi. We cannot stand for anymore. I suggest all Tea party / Republicans demand the democratic party to open the pipe-line on all issues. Pay-offs, transfers, and military security fearures, need review as promised by the supreme court..
LMAO!!! You might as well have sent your contribution to the ‘shuttered’ and failed Elizabeth Colbert Busch campaign.
I don’t believe you anyway.Show us a copy of the check!
p.s. I hope that ‘fantasy’ check you mailed Reid Jr. is enough to find out how old the faux Republican is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ervin – Similar to Tom Ervin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas J. Ervin (born 1951 or 1952)
First Obama’s fake birth certificate now Ervin apparently don’t know how old he is! :-)
“First Obama’s fake birth certificate now Ervin . . .”
Good Old Sandy – the Poster Wimp for Obama Derangement Syndrome and megaphone for WorldNetDaily. Regardless of topic – the same old Obama blah blah blah Obama blah blah . . .
Wasn’t it the Clinton’s that started the birther movement? There sure are a lot of people who have gone on record as having first hand knowledge of such. Had they not been so desperate for Hillary to be a contender in 2008, the whole birth certificate deal may not have even come into play.
I’m not at all sure it was the Clinton’s – would not surprise me that there are some who might say that though – not sure what Obama has to do with this topic though . . .
I didn’t bring up Obama.
I know you didn’t – and I didn’t either – but it got brought up for some reason and not sure what it has to do with the topic and lead into discussing the Birther Movement . . .
Let’s vote, and remember your republican leaders. LOLO.
Step 1: Call shitty GOP pols “Republicans” as if they aren’t truly representative of the party at large, when they clearly are.
Step 2: Feign outrage at said “Republicans.”
Step 3: Secretly vote for said “Republicans.” Hell, even endorse them openly on your blog and publish their press releases.
Step 4: ??????
Step 5: Congrats! You’re a “conservative” and/or “libertarian!” Certainly not a Republican, or even worse, a “Republican!” *gasp*
Hey Smirks.33% of the people that enrolled in Obamascare on the federal exchanges have not paid.
99% of em are lib/socialists and college students? Go figure.
Sorry, you’re either a moron for believing the (loser) House Repubs bogus numbers or a fraud for knowing the numbers are bogus. Which one is it? Liar or Moron? Let us know when you’re prepared to admit the numbers are bogus because they were compiled before premiums were due.
Waiting on Jay Ellington’s enlightened comments on an issue dealing with race in 3, 2, 1…
I am as well.Jay is a pleasure to read on this forum.Common sense is a virtue.
I hear there is a big sheet sale at Bed Bath and Beyond today that you and Jay might enjoy . . .
You’re a pathetic excuse for an American.
LOL Says who? YOU? LOL
Yeah, I don’t sit around on here hiding behind a pseudonym and avatar and disparage other commenters. Suggest that I’d be interested in some discount sheets… to what? Make a Klan outfit? You’re fucking pathetic.
No – you’re taking it totally the wrong way and my comment was made in jest anyway. My apologies if you feel I stepped over the line – but I am not a “pathetic excuse for an American” either.
What could you have possibly meant by it then? Seeing as how you take any and every opportunity to try and label me a racist, please enlighten me.
I offered an apology if you felt I stepped over the line but you are taking my comment the wrong way – and as I said it was made in jest anyway.
So explain what you meant, zero.
I deleted the comment “for stepping over the line” since you took offense. I get called every name in the book on this thread. Anyway, my apologies if you took offense.
For the record, SCBlues suggested that I should go down to Bed Bath and Beyond and purchase some sheets while they are on sale. I can only assume in a feeble attempt at humor, he meant that I might like to make myself a Klan robe or some similar nonsense. He took his stupid comment down because I was rightfully offended. I’d also like to point out that idiots like SCBlueWoman finds this sort of hateful rhetoric funny and upvoted that moronic comment, that has since been deleted by SCBlue. The left sure are tolerant, aren’t they?
Looks like one of your own already beat me to that sheet sale going on at BB&B… the left sure are a tolerant bunch. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/02/reprehensible-vile-stunt-democratic-politicians-bizarre-attempt-to-prove-that-republicans-embrace-racist-policies/
So sorry about that ‘stuff’. Please continue to provide the wit,humor and balance , that you do, on this forum.
Class act.
We all know it’s still Bush’s fault.
“Oh, and a brewing national scandal due to its association with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).”
Nothing is going to happen to Clyburn, Jean Toal or any of the other corrupt Democrats in South Carolina. They are in a protected class with our South Carolina U.S. Attorney’s Office (Bill Nettles, Democrat).
You got that right – everyone knows the Democrats RULE South Carolina! LOL
Again we see these same F*#king Democrats making racial slurs (see Sterling) so why Don’t you admit who and what you are?
Both of those guys are registered Republicans.
STFU Liberal piece of S#*t before I Slap The P*$$ out of you. Obama and flith like you have ruined my Latte.
Those fuckers need to bail themselves out!
Eckstrom should be fined $2.5 million and banned for life!
TBG’s girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, has a friend that we will call “V”, who is currently single, that she would like to set up with Ecky.
I bet Ecreep would pound the crap out of her !
SC State should either be sold to Claflin College (it’s not really a University) in Orangeburg, a nicely run college. Or, become part of the University of SC extension campus system. As it’s run now, it’s a disaster for the Students, and the taxpayers of SC. Even the SC State Professors are being ripped off. Incompetence everywhere.
Amen. SCS has the most bloated administrative costs per student of all regional colleges. (lokk it up.) Yet they can’t control their expenses. A cold reality check,…I know a number of HR directors who will not hire SCS graduates. There must be a reason. Yes Eckstrom used insensitive language. Shame on him. But his concern about thowing more money at a failing school is still correct.
I will match the administrative costs per student of the Richland County School District One against any in the nation. The run into each other over on Pickens Street. And it’s not the lack of space that is the problem.
You are right, 100%, There is a big party/payout every year for the ” Orangeburg Massacre ” at massacre square and throught the town. Rap concert’s that loose 10’s of thousands, paid for by taxpayers ! There is your money, and it’s not even used as education !!!
Reference Orangeburg Massacre. On a personal note. I played Legion Baseball the summer before the incident. At that time, Orangeburg was completely out of control. I had a Brick thrown at me while I played Center Field in a night game. It came close to killing me. They were attacking white people at random and trying to kill us. These so called innocent people, may have been innocent, but they were also dangerous. Ordered to disburse, they actually attacked the police. After what happened to me, I have very little sympathy for these rioters, and potential murders. Sad time, but true.
But, can you get a lane at the bowling alley?
You go to find out
That is my point also. They caused the ” Massacre ” Thank you. At that time they were terrorist in the way they acted. Now, Alot of money is given to SCSU, They still use it more for racial hate/seperation than education. I’m scared to even visit the campus as a white person, SCSU is a Hate Factory, not a University.
Nope don’t be afraid. I visited the campus last year. I got a very nice welcome. The kids were all nice, very well dressed and quite dignified. I don’t blame these kids today, except many of them have forgotten how much we all went thru to get them this far. I want the best for them, we don’t need any more dumb people in the world. Education is the freedom for us all. Right now, SC State is not doing its job: period. That has to change and now, not tomorrow: today.
Glad that you believe, show up for the concert, do not drink, and see the real SCSU. Hate is the norm. Good luck !
Maybe you should all look into this guy. He is running as a Democrat but I believe the Comptroller General position is more technical than political.
http://www.kyleherbert.com
Clemson. They’re both land grant colleges.
Let me get this straight.
Liberals (and Liberal-Tarians) define what Racism is. And: they can take Every right and Privilege you have as an American, if the Liberals (and Liberal-Tarians) determine you are a racist…
Didn’t FITS DEMAND due process for Terrorist Child Killers after Boston???…Yet he is going to indict and Convict this man, based on what he, Todd Rutherford, the Black Caucasians and The State newspaper said about Eckstrom…
I guess if the people render the Liberals (and Liberal-Tarians) unfit for office, you better figure out something to remove the people the voters elect…
What is a ” Black Caucasian ” ?
A South Carolinian or an American (documented as an American, at least) who happens to be black…but hates based on skin color, and uses that hatred as a political weapon in a caucus…
I think Rush has a hard for mixed -breed Amerikans.
I think your opinion and Rush’s differ. Which one is the most sexual ?
I’m just thrilled to find out you listen to Rush. He is the best true Media show out there. All the others are in lock-stop…
So what is your pick ?
Rush Limbaugh refers to the Congressional black caucus as the Congressional Black Caucasians.
Are they hot looking ?
“What is a ” Black Caucasian ” ?”
John Boehner? Or is that Orange Caucasian?
Tim Scott
Serious? If you could go any where else, why would you want to go to SC State??
The lying scum is popped, Nikki is next. We will take SC.
When the bullets fly, I won’t ask why, just hope I don’t die, SCSU student.
It’s simple E needs to go, along with SCSU.
Pubs rule SC, bottom line, Bottom State.
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“Creepy, incompetent…and racist”
Even more creepy? It just hit me when I saw the photo you used with this story- this clown looks a lot like Al Sharpton, except white. Check out the Sharpton photo in this randomly selected Google image (scroll down to the second image, and flip back and forth between the two). Separated at birth?
http://tellmenow.com/2014/04/al-sharpton-demands-blacks-mobilize-immediately/
Eckstrom photo looks a little like al sharpton