Did you see this item in the paper Thursday?
Here’s the release, which is to be found on the Richland County Web site:
Rep. Jimmy Bales Presents $50,000 Grant
To The Bernice G. Scott Health Facility
Representative Jimmy Bales will present a $50,000 check to representatives of The Bernice G. Scott Health and Human Services Facility on Friday, May 11th, 2:00 pm, at 120 Clarkston Street in Eastover.The $50,000 grant award is being presented by Representative Bales on behalf of South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Representative Bales was instrumental in securing the funds. The funds will go towards improving the health care of rural residents living in Lower Richland community.
According to Rep. Bales "The people in Lower Richland need medical care and services, and as their Representative it is my duty to help ensure they receive adequate medical care."
Did it ring any bells? The last time we saw these two names together, Ms. Scott was trying to get Willow Wind Road paved, even though it was behind dozens of other roads on the county paving list. She was building a home on the road. She had bought the property from Rep. Bales. It was part of a larger piece of land he owned, and the road would run through it.
Anyway, he had sold his interest in the land after she bumped the road up to the top of the list, but long before the rest of County Council decided not to let Ms. Scott get away with her egregious abuse of power.
Both officeholders, longtime friends, have said the land deals and the attempted paving were unrelated. But that might be why the names seemed connected in your mind.
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This is exactly how incumbents hold onto their offices. Using the taxpayers money to give “gifts” to one another so they can show how much they do for their constituents.
Term limits. Term limits. Term limits.
These rascals are thick as fleas on a dead possum. It is no wonder that many people in Richland County have NO confidence in their county government. Doug is correct, term limits would be a way for them to regain control. That Bernice Scott is allowed to stay in office is a complete mystery to me…what must the people she represents be thinking? Ed
Hey, if William “Cold Cash” Jefferson (D-La) and Ray “School Bus” Nagin (D-La) can get reelected why shouldn’t Scott? It’s a simple fact that Dems tend to reelect their crooks and incompetents.
Democrats are corrupt individually. Republicans are corrupt collectively.
It is true I think that there is not much to commend either side on a practical level. I have begun to believe in recent years that all politicians, regardless of party affiliation, tend to either be corrupt before election or get corrupted immediately thereafter. Aside from that purely practical assessment however, there are (or at least once were) profound philosophical differences between liberal and conservative thinking. When that was true, I believed that conservative principles were right and liberal principles (as I understand them) were largely wrong. Again, I wish we had a man like Robt. E. Lee to lead us again. Ed