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‘Empty Five Clips’: Lowcountry Official Accused of Threatening County Employees
An explosive message, disputed bonus payments, and an emergency meeting rock Jasper County government…
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County Council has no authority to place the Treasurer on leave.
The power of a small time politician/county councilman can not be checked, according to them.
The power of a county administrator is, in their eyes, unlimited.
So the council knew of a “threat” for a week but did not search or secure the building until they could press release it?
I don’t know these people but I can smell the establishment bull shit from Greenville.
Hope the treasurer stays in office and that the people clean house.
How could he make good on such a threat, anyway? I don’t know of one court house in this state that a citizen can enter without being herded and scanned for weapons. Even MacGuyver’s innocuous Swiss Army knife will get you arrested and treated like a potential mass murderer, if you dared enter the sacred confines of one of our court houses with one on you. The level of paranoia in these buildings would tend to indicate that counties are fucking people over on a grand scale, compared to the 70’s and 80’s when these measures were not in place. It sounds like Skinner is a threat to their status quo.
Courthouses have metal detectors so we shouldnt worry about violent death threats? I cant wait to hear your views on race and women’s right to vote…
I agree!
The county administrator makes $285,000 per year, including benefits.
The per-capital income of the average Jasper County resident is $32,505.
Now you see why the administrator and council want the treasurer gone. He threatens the graveyard train. And $285,000 per year is a lot of gravy.
Good grief, that’s about what the administrator in Greenville County makes and many think he’s overpaid, and he probably oversees as many employees as Jasper has residents haha
If they are so necessary and do so much good that subjecting citizens to these searches and de-humanizing herding procedures are deemed necessary and worthy of continuation, yeah. How would someone make good on such a threat?
Where is the rest of that text thread.
I understand that there was a councilman on that thread that said the same sort of thing but has not been questioned.
Please post the whole thread.
Charge him , fire him, file a restraining order, hire a new treasurer, and we (taxpayers) will all pay his wrongful termination suit out of the insurance reserve fund. MAGA welfare! What a genuinely scary guy. I feel for my friends on Council and Jasper County government.
if Mr. Skinner thinks of the government building as a ” f-hole” he needs to leave. from day one he has used vulgar language about the county that signs his paycheck , has rude , uninformed employees , yeah , he needs to leave.
Sounds like he has a firm grasp on the situation at hand which he is faced with.
Skinner has had nothing but grief since winning this office. The office was run in such a lackadaisical manner for years and it was allowed with no consequences. Skinner tries to bring the office up to the current century and make employees accountable. God forbid! The county administrator is an overpaid, accountable to no one guy who allows some county employees to be the same. I have heard of one supervisor in a particular department that is not even required to show up for work unless he wants to but still gets big raises and bonuses. The majority of people in Jasper County are hard working people with morals. But, they are screwed by all the corruption that is allowed. Jasper Taxpayer hit it on the head!
Skinner is combating alot of grift and corruption. He has no actual intention of physically harming anyone, but he failed to understand that that kind of gruff Marine banter behind the scenes will come back to bite him in the ass; he is somewhat his own worst enemy in that regard. Hopefully he will learn this political lesson without it resulting in his removal from office before he can get all those county financial accounts back under his office’s control, as the law requires. Then he will be able to really uncover the misuse of public funds and force accountability.
Andy Fulghum is the only reason Jasper County is not a literal dumpster fire. Pay him whatever it takes to keep him. Fire and arrest the psycho treasurer.