Friday, April 19, 2024
Gov. Nikki Haley told listeners of her dreams in her second inaugural speech yesterday with no idea of how to make them reality.
Haley quoted Henry David Thoreau – “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Haley’s enunciated dreams are certainly in the air. Unfortunately, her performance as governor, to date, lacks any attempt at foundations.
The legislative session that opens today in Columbia has every opportunity of demonstrating just how weak and ineffective S.C. Government really is.
Several months ago, the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that S.C. government isn’t doing enough to ensure students in poor, rural school districts receive even the “minimally adequate” education required by the state constitution.
South Carolina has reached a critical juncture where a maintenance plan must be developed to fix its crumbling roads and bridges.
Gov. Nikki Haley was in Horry County Monday pumping the benefits of the I-73 project and her re-election campaign.
Speaking to the Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors, Haley said I-73 is hugely important for this area.
It’s so important she said someone else would have to pay for it because the state wasn’t about to.
And that is the crux of the I-73 contradiction.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appointed a special commission this week to make recommendations on ethics reform in South Carolina governments.
The 11 member commission, created by executive order of the governor, will have until January 28, 2013 to draft an “ethics blueprint” recommending new and/or stronger ethics laws.
Commission members will look into freedom of information, campaign finance and practices, conflict of interest and ethics enforcement by state and legislative ethics panels.
On the surface this sounds good and is certainly needed in South Carolina, a state that is ranked at or near the bottom of all states in ethics and freedom of information by the independent Center for Public Integrity.
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