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Guest Column: The Unfolding Saga Of South Carolina’s Treasurer
“The path chosen could have unintended and damaging ramifications for the separation of powers and the future accountability of elected officials.”
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Nice word salad, Jakie in a skirt. So glad you are no longer in The Senate.
Where the hell were the auditors in all of this. Surely a 1.8B accounting “error” is material?!? Elected state officers may be incompetent but I would think the cover up is how this got “missed” by the auditors.
I see the SC House has decided not to continue the Senate’s Witch Hunt! Excellent news and my faith in The House is restored.
Fits, please be a dear and publish a list of House members who righted this wrong so that they may be thanked and remembered in 2026 as the good people they have been.
Asked him for appropriation info one time. Nothing complicated, simply a report his office should have on record. His response, silence. Not even a go to hell. If being a pompous arse with a sense of entitlement and a holier than thou attitude is a removable offense, he is guilty. But, then the Legislature could be in a whole lot of trouble.
So if Loftis had kissed the ring of the almighty senate he would have been fine? Our state is run like a third world banana republic where only one branch of government controls all. It’s a pathetic throwback system created by former confederates who didn’t want “outsiders “ or former slaves to gain any power in state government. The courts are puppets who are beholden to the legislature and the governor is a mere figurehead who has no power to do anything. I mean there is actually a law that says the courts can’t make any rules unless they are approved by the legislature first
The sentiment of Shealy is seemingly in the right place but how can you write about the senates actions as something that will come back to haunt the legislature and then only focus on actions that can be taken regardless of whether Loftis is in office? They can fix the things spelled out here like mandating criteria for a Treasurer or making the office a cabinet agency, but what is the point of checks and balances if they don’t use them? The statute the senate applied is vague, sure. Doesn’t change the fact that Loftis should be out of a job. If this were a business, there’d be no question. And SC repubs should have no issue with that since the fed is now run like a business, per trumps own administration.
The house should’ve taken up the resolution before sine die. Let the state Supreme Court sort it out if it gets that far.
He doesn’t have the integrity to resign. It’s disgusting he gets to keep his job for another year, plus some.