Targeted Politicians Intimidating Council Supporters

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The South Carolina Policy Council is taking bold action to inform citizens and harness corruption in South Carolina government. To date, they have uncovered several instances of state lawmakers in powerful positions using their positions of power to enrich themselves financially and professionally. Powerful elected officials retaliate against their critics and one effective method of retaliation is to attack their sources of financial support.

The Policy Council Nerve has reported that a senior state Senator has allegedly made millions of dollars selling concrete to the state to build roads. A large section of asphalt was removed from I-385 and replaced with concrete.

Policy Council investigations and reports have resulted in criminal ethical charges against House Speaker Bobby Harrell, probably the most powerful individual in South Carolina. Some of the allegations involve improper use of campaign funds. The Nerve reported that Harrell appointed his brother to the panel that selects judges to be considered for appointment by lawmakers and owns a company that will potentially benefit financially from Obamacare.

South Carolina Policy Council Executive Director Ashley Landess was guest speaker at the June Meeting of RINO Hunt in Greenville, Friday evening. She discussed the mission of the South Carolina Policy Council, their determination to expose fraud and corruption in South Carolina government, the backlash they are getting from politicians and the desperate need for funding. if their efforts are to continue.  Both Landess and RINO Hunt Founder Harry Kibler stressed that without grass roots support the effort to make South Carolinians free and the state government free of corruption may fail.

The South Carolina Policy Council has been in existence doing a lot of important research for many years. Only recently have they joined the effort to expose corruption in government. Landess and her organization are learning that corrupt government officials do not like being exposed and will do all they can to destroy those who would expose them.

Their current work is bold, professional and necessary, but not without cost. The Policy Council is currently facing opposition The Times Examiner and others have experienced for decades when challenging corruption in government.  Landess expressed the desperation of her organization’s situation in her closing statement Friday evening.

“If they succeed in the pressure they are putting, if freedom fighters don’t step up and decide that we have to put everything into this; if we decide that we are not quite ready to do that, we will have to know that. You can only send soldiers on the battlefield so long to be shot at. So, we need to know: Are we going to stand and fight with everything we have got or are we going to negotiate the terms of our advance?”

Several members of the audience signed pledge cards or wrote checks at the end of the meeting.

To learn more about the work of the South Carolina Policy Council, go to www.scpolicycouncil.org/conflict-watch.

 

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