So the editors of the Post and Courier find it appropriate to criticize the state "competitive grants" program, as I have? They side with a lawsuit brought against it by a "citizens reform group," do they? [See today's editorial page.]
How about closer to home, editors? You've now editorialized about the Charleston County Council's handouts and the state's pork. What about funds given to charities and nonprofits that are hidden in the City Council's budget? They don't count?
Don't you wonder what the City-Council equivalents are of our state-tax dollars for "the Hilarity Festival, the Come-See-Me Festival, the Mighty Mo Festival, the Flopeye Fish Festival and Squealing on the Square"?
Let's not be hypocrites.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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It's an election year. They're giving the mayor a pass. A couple of the expenditures may have once been associated with a city commission (i.e. the Charleton Orphan House or Florence Crittendon Home) but they had direct oversight and annual reports to council. This system looks like a slush fund and is operated like one. It discredits some good programs by lumping them together with some highly questionable ones. Lay it all out in the open. Instead the method used makes the best intended program look no better than the worst attempt at graft and corruption.
This mayor is just as guilty as the fire chief with the recent deaths of the nine fire fighters. That is why he gets his panties.....oops did I say that.... in a knot. He knew you don't fight 21st century fires the 19th century way. It was all about saving money. A 2 inch hose doesn't put out a forest fire!!!! I hope he sleeps okay at night with all the guilt he bears!!
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