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South Carolina’s Missing $1.8 Billion: A Smoking Gun?
Comptroller general told treasurer in 2023 to put “phantom” $1.8 billion in the state’s general fund for lawmakers to spend…
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The Comptroller General’s office is known to have blockheads at the top. Democrat Gaines is the latest to join, but one senior staffer that oversaw that conversion is still there and protecting his ass and his job.
I used to work for state government and dealt with that crew on the regular. Fire the top tier and improve the office.
The state senate is going to cost SC its AAA credit rating and that will cost us all more money. It is a hidden tax.
Everyone knows Sen Larry Grooms is an idiot, but why are the conservative senators allowing this to happen?
Grooms is an idiot. Ran for congress and it was a bust. Ran for governor and dropped out because no one took home seriously. He lied to us about lower Santee Cooper Elec bills.
Trust anybody but Larry Grooms.
SC has a shortage of 3000 doctors and SC can’t borrow money for the MUSC medical teaching facility?
SC needs better health outcomes.
Senator Grooms is an idiot.
Curtis Loftis has been a great State Treasurer. Hard to imagine, but I think he would make an even better Governor.
Grooms is set to take over senate finance because Senator Peeler’s health is failing. Groom’s people want puppets at treasury, the comptroller’s office and state auditor.
They want Senator Goldfinch as attorney general and Nancy Mace as governor. Get in their way they will destroy you.
Peeler does not know they are writing him out of the script. No one wants to be on the wrong side of Grooms’s as he will be chairman of Senate finance for 20 years.
The Trump revolution missed SC’s state government. The people don’t matter.
That sounds truly terrifying – at least the Grooms and Goldfinch part.
How in the hell does Loftis get raked over the coals about earning interest on money that “does not exist” when he was told by the CG – the guy who hold the legal authority over the state’s accounting- that it WAS real money and that he needed to move it to the state’s General Fund? Is he not allowed to receive, rely upon, and act upon the official opinion of the CG? And FURTHERMORE, Larry Grooms had to have known about the CG’s declaration before he put Loftis through the wringer (and I wonder what the state auditor told Grooms before those hearings, hmmm?), BUT DID NOT SAY ONE SINGLE WORD ABOUT IT in public. If Grooms was really being an objective, rational, even-handed official – trying to get to the bottom of what happened – there is NO WAY he should have allowed the CG to skate by for over a year without even so much as asking him under oath about his letter to the Treasurer. This smells to high heaven like an inside-baseball hit job by Grooms and his lackeys to oust more fiscally conservative elected officials and consolidate power with more economically liberal allies.
Maybe FITS has already done this but somebody who actually is a real investigative journalist [a truly dying breed] needs to obtain every document that was sent by offices of the Treasurer, the CG, dept of Admin, and the Auditor to any member of the Senate Finance Committee or the body as a whole, or any of their subcommittees. Pretty sure its available through the state FOIA laws – the Legislature is exempt, but not the executive branch agencies sending them stuff!!