We’ve exposed how Columbia, S.C. shyster Joe McCulloch is clueless when it comes to life. Apparently he’s also clueless when it comes to politics.
The trial lawyer – who is running for the S.C. House of Representatives in Richland County – is blindly following the S.C. Democratic Party’s 2014 campaign playbook, which holds that “Republicans” in Columbia are hypocrites on the issue of ethics reform.
That’s accurate … although McCulloch has the misfortune of running against S.C. Rep. Kirkman Finlay, one of a handful of S.C. House members who has actually led the fight on behalf of several long-overdue major ethics upgrades.
Apparently McCulloch didn’t bother to check that out before he started blasting Finlay … that or he’s hoping Richland County residents aren’t familiar with Google.
Of course that’s just part of his problem …
FITS has reviewed McCulloch’s ethics filings from 2012 (including amendments filed as recently as this year) and discovered multiple inconsistencies.
For example, we found numerous contributions that were previously undisclosed. We also found unitemized contributions that appear to have been fabricated – and campaign expenses that mysteriously vanished. In fact we uncovered more than $5,000 worth of “removed expenditures” on McCulloch’s amended disclosures – as well as four campaign contributions that were not reported totaling nearly $2,000.
Ruh-roh …
We get that McCulloch is hoping to capitalize on the issue of ethics reform – which has dominated headlines at the S.C. State House this year and which has opened the “GOP-controlled” S.C. General Assembly to all sorts of well-deserved criticism. But Finlay is one of the few lawmakers who is immune from such criticism given his consistent support for real reforms. And based on McCulloch’s own ethics filings, he might want to consider another avenue of attack.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. A total of $2000 in donations that were later included, and $5K in expenditures that were corrected…..? Take the Kirkman Dong from your mouth please.
Do I have to keep pointing out that your man Kirkman was a co-sponsor of the very bills the slimeball Harrell tried to sneak by the general assembly? (the ones you lambasted, and lambasted the people that signed them). Oh yeah, he never asked to be removed either, even when his error was pointed out.
https://www.fitsnews.com/2014/04/10/lawmakers-flee-bobby-harrell-bills/
Can you taste Harrell’s pecker when you kiss the bearded one on the lips?
Kirkman pays Will Folks. Will Folks writes hit pieces on Kirkman Finlay’s opponent and praises Kirkman Finlay. Rinse, repeat.
Will, I told Joe, I would help him out this time if he would just go along with my efforts to brush over the Richland County election mess a year and a half ago. He is a good Democrat as you point out. We have basically the same team running the elections again this time with Lillian McBride back in charge and Darryl Jackson telling her what to do as I tell him what to do. When we need a token white man to support Lillian, I just call James Smith and he jumps to immediately. It’s doesn’t matter what you write or do, Joe will win by between 150-200 votes. Write it down and wait and see.