So, what else is new?
As far back as the Hicks-Harwell/Somebody-Martin election, either Gilda Cobb Hunter or SC State Senator Somebody Ford said, “Today, I sold my soul to a thousand devils.” This reference to Goethe’s Faust is very sophisticated for a non-lawyer South Carolina legislator.
But I will NOT let FITS ignore the TWO elephants (or donkeys or gorillas) in the room.
First huge animal: (1) The non-legislator lawyers on SC’s JMSC: Andrew Safran, the token Hebrew; Hope Blackley and Lucy Grey McIver, the token women; AND Pete Strom, FITS’ pro quod or pro bono lawyer.
Second huge animal: the “citizens” committees which screens the candidates before they even get before SC JMSC. The Midlands Citizen’s Committee had John Grantland. Know him? The one who mysteriously rolled over and made Nautilus pay $3.8M for the bogus claim that dogs caused Gloria Satterfield to trip and die.
Grantland was replaced by one of the worst people ever: William Tetterton of Camden. Not too different from Alex Murdaugh in his fraudulent “glory,” Tetterton represented Larry Wayne Mason against some psychiatrist and blackmailed a $250K settlement.
How? Mason’s concubine, Dinah Gail Steele, shot Larry’s first-born biological son, Richard Wayne Mason, in the face to death with Larry’s gun in Steele’s home. They reported it as a suicide because the psychiatrist discharged Richard, whom no one wanted at home, too soon.
Hush-hush and wink-wink, Kershaw County’s coroner and sheriff ruled it a suicide; no ballistics, no autopsy, no anything; and Richard was immediately cremated.
More shades of Murdaugh-Fleming: Richard’s biological mother, Mary Ann Loop Mason, knows nothing about the settlement. It all went to Tetterton and to Larry.
Don’t ever take my word for anything. Take the public records.
Nor is Richard the only immediate family to die by gunshot wound to the head fired from Larry’s gun in a home occupied by Larry. Larry’s second wife, Ella Faye Kizer Mason, had suffered an eerily similar fate 23 years earlier.
Alan Wilson knows this. Mark Keel knows this. At least one judge knows this.
Dig this up if you dare. Halloween is still four months away.
I love it when lawyer/legislators like FITs love interest Micah Caskey(nice pic of the joker btw)say the public is stupid and doesn’t understand how the judicial selection system works and that it works well. To say there is no corruption in the statehouse and this whole system means you’re blind or involved.
I think Shane Massey and Murrell Smith should look into the non-legislator lawyers on the “citizens” committees and on the Judicial Merit Selection Commission itself.
That is where the real power is; and, unlike legislators, the public is unable to vote those appointees out.
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So, what else is new?
As far back as the Hicks-Harwell/Somebody-Martin election, either Gilda Cobb Hunter or SC State Senator Somebody Ford said, “Today, I sold my soul to a thousand devils.” This reference to Goethe’s Faust is very sophisticated for a non-lawyer South Carolina legislator.
But I will NOT let FITS ignore the TWO elephants (or donkeys or gorillas) in the room.
First huge animal: (1) The non-legislator lawyers on SC’s JMSC: Andrew Safran, the token Hebrew; Hope Blackley and Lucy Grey McIver, the token women; AND Pete Strom, FITS’ pro quod or pro bono lawyer.
Second huge animal: the “citizens” committees which screens the candidates before they even get before SC JMSC. The Midlands Citizen’s Committee had John Grantland. Know him? The one who mysteriously rolled over and made Nautilus pay $3.8M for the bogus claim that dogs caused Gloria Satterfield to trip and die.
Grantland was replaced by one of the worst people ever: William Tetterton of Camden. Not too different from Alex Murdaugh in his fraudulent “glory,” Tetterton represented Larry Wayne Mason against some psychiatrist and blackmailed a $250K settlement.
How? Mason’s concubine, Dinah Gail Steele, shot Larry’s first-born biological son, Richard Wayne Mason, in the face to death with Larry’s gun in Steele’s home. They reported it as a suicide because the psychiatrist discharged Richard, whom no one wanted at home, too soon.
Hush-hush and wink-wink, Kershaw County’s coroner and sheriff ruled it a suicide; no ballistics, no autopsy, no anything; and Richard was immediately cremated.
More shades of Murdaugh-Fleming: Richard’s biological mother, Mary Ann Loop Mason, knows nothing about the settlement. It all went to Tetterton and to Larry.
Don’t ever take my word for anything. Take the public records.
Nor is Richard the only immediate family to die by gunshot wound to the head fired from Larry’s gun in a home occupied by Larry. Larry’s second wife, Ella Faye Kizer Mason, had suffered an eerily similar fate 23 years earlier.
Alan Wilson knows this. Mark Keel knows this. At least one judge knows this.
Dig this up if you dare. Halloween is still four months away.
I love it when lawyer/legislators like FITs love interest Micah Caskey(nice pic of the joker btw)say the public is stupid and doesn’t understand how the judicial selection system works and that it works well. To say there is no corruption in the statehouse and this whole system means you’re blind or involved.
I think Shane Massey and Murrell Smith should look into the non-legislator lawyers on the “citizens” committees and on the Judicial Merit Selection Commission itself.
That is where the real power is; and, unlike legislators, the public is unable to vote those appointees out.