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South Carolina Lawmakers Seek To Remove Comptroller General

Richard Eckstrom’s days in office appear to be numbered …

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Stephen Guilfoyle Top fan March 16, 2023 at 8:55 pm

What I find fascinating about all this is that he blames COVID money to the universities but the errant statements go back to 2015-2017 and include statements of 2019.
I find both math and the calendar difficult, but doesn’t this mean the misstatements came before COVID money.
Have I got that right?

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Going Broke March 17, 2023 at 9:19 am

I mean, we have Republicans blaming bank failures on banks “going woke” now so the lies have gotten extremely low effort as of late. Ickstrom should just say a drag queen handled the statements and call it a day.

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CongareeCatfish Top fan March 17, 2023 at 11:25 am

If Article XV Section 3 removal, which (a) does not explicitly reference usage against statewide elected officials, and (b) does not require a trial as in a Section 1 impeachment, and (c) has an arguably lower threshold/ standard of malfeasance required to utilize, applies to statewide elected officials, then WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER utilize Article XV, Section 1 impeachment, which IS explicitly stated for use on a statewide elected official? In other words, if Section 3 removal is an option for a statewide official’s removal, then Section 1 will never be used. Which is why the drafters likely never intended Section 3 for use against an elected statewide official. But at the end of the day, there is no appellate law on this in our State, so its concededly a “fair game” argument to make for or against. There’s an interesting brief out on the internet by Gov. Sanford’s legal team when during hearings on the “Appalachian Trail/Argentinian Tail” episode worth a read on this.

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dwb619 Top fan March 17, 2023 at 7:04 pm

What happened to that wild eyed school principal girl friend of his?

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Astonished Top fan March 17, 2023 at 7:41 pm

Best way to get rid of him. South Carolina voters certainly wouldn’t….pervert!!

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Tom Jones March 18, 2023 at 8:24 am

Most folks in SC don’t even know who the CG is or what he/she does. Most SC voters walk into the polling booth and pull a straight R ticket and leave not knowing who they voted for. Ol Henry’s idea of “let the voters decide” is absurd. Can we expect the same people who voted for a lying, treasonous, narcissistic nut job for POTUS (and will do it again) to kick Richard out of office? If the GA doesn’t kick him out, he’ll run again in three years and win. It’s just how we roll heah in Sooouth Carolina.

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Anonymous March 19, 2023 at 10:00 pm

Oust him.

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