Gov Haley’s Influence on Restructuring
Talbert Black who had a front and center seat this week watching the restructuring bill unfold in the Senate, and who regularly chats with Senators, brings us this report. ————- Much is being made of the restructuring bill that just came out of the Senate, H3066. The Governor and many Senators are claiming victory saying [...]
February 18, 2012
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South Carolina Government Restructuring
Well. This was supposed to happen last session. Getting rid of the Budget and Control Board. Didn’t. Should have been done already this session. Isn’t. Why? You KNOW why. The Boyz in Columbia do not want to give up their power. So they have spent three weeks screwing around with Passionate Speeches, and back room [...]
February 10, 2012
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When Five People are Accountable, Nobody is Accountable
That is one of the key reasons we are fighting so hard to abolish the Budget and Control Board. If one person, one legislator, one senator, one county councilman is accountable DIRECTLY TO THE VOTERS then the voice and the will of the people is more strongly represented. If a “group of people” make decisions, [...]
February 8, 2012
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Seriously Senators? Why can’t you just KILL the Budget and Control Board?
Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that killing the B&CB is what South Carolinians want? have wanted? for years? Why don’t the people we send to represent us in Columbia quit screwing around and just get this done? NO MORE EXCUSES! Whether they are favored senators or not, if YOUR senator is giving excuses [...]
February 6, 2012
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Update on Budget and Control Board
HOW LONG SOUTH CAROLINA? HOW LONG MUST WE TOIL UNDER THIS BURDEN? (that sounds poetic and familiar) Erik K Ward reporting at The Nerve brings us this update: On Tuesday, the Senate plans to resume debating a bill that would abolish the Budget and Control Board (BCB) and create an executive branch Department of Administration [...]
January 27, 2012
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What’s the Latest on the Budget and Control Board?
Our pal Talbert Black tells us. ————- Are you tired of no one taking responsibility for the huge unfunded liability of our state retirement system? And how about our nearly bankrupt Department of Transportation? Who is taking responsibility for that fiasco? And wasn’t it just last year that Corrections, Social Services, and Health and Human [...]
January 24, 2012
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Senate moves to stop B&CB from allowing deficits
Matt Long at South Carolina Radio Network reports: A South Carolina Senate panel is moving forward with a bill that would bar state agencies from running a deficit unless the General Assembly gives it special permission. The legislation would also take away the power of the state’s top financial board to recognize agency deficits. The [...]
December 7, 2011
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Curtis Loftis press release on BCB meeting today
The latest in a few incidents of disagreements between Gov Haley and Treasurer Loftis in the BCB meeting today. Here is the Loftis press release. At today’s Budget and Control Board meeting, Treasurer Curtis Loftis asked that the Governor put aside bureaucratic red tape so that the Department of Transportation could pay hard working road [...]
August 9, 2011
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May 2 Budget and Control Board meeting WATCH on ETV
Monday May 2 at 9:30 am in Room 252 of the Edgar A Brown Building is the next BCB meeting. YOU can watch online here.
April 27, 2011
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SC Budget board OKs $100M SC Medicaid agency bailout
Jim Davenport at HeraldOnline reports … … a financial oversight board Tuesday approved a $100 million bailout for the state Department of Health and Human Services. The 4-1 vote by the state Budget and Control Board averts a shutdown in payments. Tony Keck, director of HHS, told the board he had enough cash to pay [...]
March 22, 2011
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