ATTORNEY GENERAL: “IN THE LONG RUN, RIGHT ALWAYS WINS”
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson called into the FITS home office this week to share his thoughts on the controversial ruling issued by S.C. circuit court judge Casey Manning in the Bobby Harrell public corruption case.
The ruling – which Manning may have issued under threat of blackmail – temporarily shuts down Wilson’s grand jury investigation of the powerful Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives, who is facing a litany of corruption charges.
Who does Manning think should handle the case? The S.C. House “Ethics” Committee – which two years ago whitewashed a similar public corruption case involving S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley.
Wilson disagrees …
“There is absolutely no way this case will get a fair hearing in the S.C. House of Representatives,” he said.
And he’s absolutely right. In fact Manning’s ridiculous ruling effectively grants current and former state lawmakers de facto immunity from prosecution whenever they abuse their positions of public trust for personal gain.
What does Wilson think of such an infinitely corrupt arrangement? Not very much …
“This is really about the public – and the public’s trust in government,” he said. “And it’s just not there anymore.”
Wilson said his office is “absolutely” appealing Manning’s verdict.
“I am not going to take Judge Manning’s order as the final determination on what this office or the grand jury will do,” he said. “This is not the final determination.”
Harrell’s case will eventually go to the S.C. Supreme Court, although as this website has noted in all likelihood “the fix is in” at that venue as well seeing as Harrell recently rigged S.C. Chief Justice Jean Toal’s reelection to her post.
Is there anything Wilson can do beyond the Supreme Court? Like possibly referring the case to the feds, for example?
“There are quite a few avenues we can use to effectuate justice,” Wilson said. “There are plenty of tools in the toolbox and we are going to use every single one at our disposal. All options are on the table.”
Wilson added that no amount of political pressure would dissuade him from pursuing justice in the Harrell case.
“I believe in the long run right always wins,” he said. “It doesn’t always come in the time we want it, but right always wins.”
Let’s hope that’s true … South Carolina simply cannot afford to watch yet another lawbreaking politician go unpunished.
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It’d be pretty amazing to see Wilson bring the Feds down on everyone’s necks…I just don’t think he has the balls to do it.
He’d lose his own little raisin balls in the process.
“There are plenty of tools in the toolbox and we are going to use every single one at our disposal.”
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Duuuh! Does he mean like the needle-nose pliers that are squeezing his” little raisin balls” — Unless he enjoys the pain!
You know those State Reps that were for Bobby then against Bobby, those guys balls are gonna be tight, ouch; hell hath no fury or forgiveness as Our Dear Leader Bobby. I mean ouch, they have nowhere to go and boys, Bobbys on the way. Also Our Founding Editor just got a spot on TV I heard, The FitsNews Show. You go Will!!!
This is the reason Politicians do as they wish. You try and protect him if he is in your party,I try to protect him if he is in mine. The political arena uses Party,race and everything else they can to divide America so they can keep on doing as they please. We Americans are stupid!
We Americans are stupid!
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Well, everyone but me and TBG, anyway.
No, I agree. The voters are selling their futures and the futures of countless generations!
This State and Country will suffer immeasureably for the election and reelection of these people.
I have always been told that a crazy person is the last one to recognize their problem!
…because he doesn’t know he’s crazy.
I think that’s the key to my happiness… I know I’m not crazy.
Been there,done that! I made a mistake once, I thought I was wrong!
I haven’t made that one yet… I credit constant vigilance.
Well, you surely have something to look forward to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoHhhwVyNE
Wilson has been told ( he wouldn’t know it on his own) there is no federal issue here. As long as Wilson is taking his legal advice from Billy Folks, Harrell is in good shape.
Meet me at 3 am. I want to show you how the Navy Seals take out people like you?
He doesn’t need to have balls. The FBI just needs to have noses. This whole saga reeks of corruption. I’m sure they can smell it all the way in Washington.
It’s Washington, they’re used to much worse smells already.
They can smell it but they ain’t gonna step in it, my god, it would get on absolutely EVERYONE, and of course Alan knows this.
Right LOSER.This whole witchunt sounds just like the fake conspiracy created by a handful of political hacks in Myrtle Beach/Horry County in regards to campaign donations and the MBACC.
Same tactics being used.Destroy and defame the accused with false allegations hoping something sticks for political gain..When that doesn’t work go after their families.It cost TSN and reporter David Wren $600,000 last week in Horry County.
Nothing here in my opinion.
It’s hard to see anything when you’re on your knees under Harrell’s desk.
OOH, OOH!!
The yelp of a hit dog, music to my ears.
Ya clowns are just ‘whistling Dixie’ without a band!
See, that’s what’s strange about your comment. If that truly is the case, why even bother responding? Is it just to gloat that Harrell got away with something?
If so, it’s incredibly puerile.
If that’s not the reason, then it must be something much more concerning.
We may be “whistling Dixie” but you’re the one playing Bobby’s skin flute. Are you the one responsible for that never healing fistule on his lip?
Witch hunt is two words.
Whatever you say, Bobby! Errrr….. Sandi!
He might not have the balls to send this to Feds, but I do and will do it.
Forgive me Lord!
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“Alan Wilson called into the FITS home office”
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I’m losing respect for Wilson. Don’t have direct contact with Will. It makes you seem cheap.
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“I believe in the long run right always wins,” he said. “It doesn’t always come in the time we want it, but right always wins.”
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This sounds like an old TV episode of Superman or the Lone Ranger. While it’s a pleasant thought. It is a bit naive and definitely not biblical at least not always in this life.
Continue to do what is right, but don’t expect an ending as neat and tidy as on TV.
but we may get true ethics reform.
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…and Eddie Haskel became head of Goldman Sachs, and then Treasury Secretary, and everyone lived happily ever after.
…and Lumpy became SCAG.
The south is famous for back room deals… racism will die before corruption.
Neither will disappear before their is a new heaven and a new earth. Even the civil rights movement is corrupt. LA NAACP was to give Sterling a lifetime achievement award.
Yeah… and like, believing in supply-side Jesus will help usher in the end-times.
…or Believing In “hope ‘n change”.
shit… that “Christian” bullshit?
…things that can’t be legislated or come from a presidential order.
Right – sound bites like “family values” and “fiscal responsibility”
Just wishing and hoping and singing and praying, someday he will be mine. An oldie but goodie.
One way or another, Harrell will Hang – and so will Manning. The People are coming together to throw both of these pig shits not in a prison, but UNDER IT. If you see Harrell on the street or in a public place, get in his face and shoot him the bird and scream out loud while pointing at him, “THIS FAT OLD MAN IS A CORRUPT POLITICIAN THAT STEALS FROM ALL OF US.”
DAMN! — that’s harsh!
You’d better do it with the rest too! They are ALL in it!
Now it is up to Rep. Pope to ensure that the Ethics Committee does the right thing. Last week during an interview Pope demonstrated that he has integrity.
Didn’t Pope support and vote for Toal? If so, don’t wait on any honesty or integrity here.
Maybe whatever is festering in those foul pustules on Harrell’s lips will get him first.
Alan will be out of office before the appeal makes it through the system. They will just wait him out, unfortunately. 95% of South Carolinians do not pay attention to this type of news so there will be no uproar from the citizenry. These guys just gave themselves a free ticket to spend campaign dollars on personal expenses. Now look for Mark Sanford to resign from congress and get back here as a state rep. so he can partake.
Of course at the Federal level they have that privilege. It is called a leadership PAC and even the non-leaders have them now.
Finally, if the Feds are not stepping in during a two-term Dem. presidency to round up some republican heads in SC then they never will.
Absolutely.
Bill Nettles is certainly no Paul Fishman or Preet Bharara and SC is certainly at least as corrupt as New Jersey or New York.
They are ALL above the Law and above us peasants! They just gave themselves a tremendous raise, increase in indistrict expense and gargantuan retirement, for themselves and their predecessors! Where elsse can this happen…NO WHERE!
Don’t you little people taxpayers wish you could raise your own expense account and raise your own salary?
None, NONE should be reelected !
A three day, 5 month job, who could ask for more?
My first reaction to this was: “Wilson called FITS to talk about this?!” My second reaction to this was: “Wilson called FITS to talk about this??!!” My third reaction was: “Wilson called FITS to talk about this???!!!”
My conclusion is: Wilson is as dumb as others say he is.
The Attorney General of The State of SC did what?!!!
.Wilson is in w/ RQ&A I think. FITS is an RQ&A Stooge..
One of the ugliest aspects of politics is consultants, and how they pollute officers. It’s why leaders say one thing, then do what is best for the consultants….
FITS is a master at claiming he one thing, then being guided by influence, power and money, to exactly what he says he is not…
So it is possible, considering the Filthy nature of consultants, and their sway over the elected…
ONE CALL, THATS ALL.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Does the National Republican Party really want to be associated, and burdened, with the disgraceful and shameful corruption State of South Carolina during an election cycle? How does this help in either 2014 or 2016?
LOL! Do you really think ANYBODY outside of about 6 posters on FITS care about this story?
Get a life dude!
Yes – and wash the sand out of your vagina,’Sandi’, you seem to be somewhat irritated this morning.
I humbly retract this statement because of your two intelligent posts
No harm, no foul. :-)
America expects this of South Carolina. Maybe the bright side of all this is that it might make a few Ohioans think twice before they move to Charleston.
I doubt it. The beach and lifestyle trump the nasty,bigoted racists going after Manning and Harrell.
People in the Midwest have the same values as those in the Carolina’s. Problem you have are the northeastern libs that move in with socialist political values.That is how ‘carpetbaggers’ like Gloria Tinabu and ECB rise up the SCDP political office list.
Ah, the race card. Good play! Glad you came up from Harrell’s dick long enough to get some air.
Only FEDERAL INVESTIGATION I see coming are into the threats to ‘lynch’ Mr.Manning last night on FITS. Communicating such a threat,in my opinion, is a felony and may even qualify as a ‘hate crime’?
DOJ Holder, in my opinion, gonna love this case.
Put that up your poop shoot, Squishy! :-)
You’re putting your faith in Holder? Is it because he’s black?
Yeah, it’s all because Manning is black… whatever, just another SC retard. Now crawl back under that desk and open wide.
Your anal retention is noted. Try some Exlax.
Why do you think it’s different in any other RED state?
Wilson says he has other avenues to pursue. I think that says it all. Manning & Toal are typical lawyers. They will accept cash and favors to “help” a desperate man all the while knowing he is ultimately doomed.
Wrong, READ THE ORDER, Wilson has NO other options except to waste taxpayers $$$$$dollars and pay his dumb legal advisors more money.
You just can’t think outside the box. In the next few months, except either a leak of specific evidence against Harrell which leads to a public outcry for his criminal indictment AND/OR an investigation by the FBI.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the FBI isn’t already investigating. They are probably licking their chops at the idea of a House “ethics” whitewash. More corrupt politicians for them to take down.
BLAH BLAH BLAH….
We’ll see…. I hope you’re not associated with Speaker Harrell in any way. If I were you, I wouldn’t be sleeping well at night.
BLAH BLAH BLAH….. it’s OVER dude, READ THE JUDGE’S ORDER.
LOL. You sound desperate. Check back in six months from now and tell us how you’re doing.
You right! HERE COME DA JUDGE,HERE COME DA JUDGE,ORDER IN DA COURT, ORDER IN DA COURT,HERE COME DA JUDGE!
The article in the State Paper quoted Wilson in court when he presented and defended his case in front of Manning,”the ongoing SLED and grand jury investigation had uncovered other potentially criminal matters.” This just shows tha Wilson either doesn’t know what he is talking about or he relied on SLED to do an investigation (knowning they couldn’t get out of a wet paper bag). Why would he stand in front of Manning and state there is “Potentially Criminal Matters”. If you wanted a case to have merit as you fight, why not point out the criminal matters. Unless you don’t have anything or SLED agents think they know something is going on but can’t prove anything because they can’t investigate. Case in Point, has anyone heard aything come out of the Lexington Ring with an audio tape giving to them on a silver platter. SLED investigated this case involving politicians throughout the midlands and nothing has happened as of today.
This is a political case driven by Haley and Keel.
You are on a roll today!
SLED, under Keel’s control is more of a paper pushing do nothing organization!
If you have political standing, or position, you can have an investigation on your opponents, your enemies; but, if you are in the Senate or House, or friend of Toal nothing happens. SLED has become a farce under keel! It startd down hill with Stewart, further into a political organization under james and lloyd and is now worthless under Keel.
So very true! SLED has failed on all fronts of investigating matters and has demonstrated to be completely incompetent in their investigations or purposely be incompetent to assist the political ones they choose to protect. Either way, the Harrell case is just another very sad example of SLED’s continuos failure to bring the corrupt to justice as also the lexington ring that includes former lexington town councilman danny Frazier, former state senator jake Knotts, the video poker industry, and still serving the corrupt sheriff james Metts along with so many others that has political ties.
Everyone who knows anything about the Harrell case and the lexington ring knows the evidence is their to bring charges against each one of them but SLED has choose to obstruct justice and refuse to bring any charges against these very corrupt individuals simply based on political ties. These two cases were gift wrapped for them we are just so fortunate to have had the media cover and publicly expose the lexington ring and it’s corrupt public officials so us citizens could actually see that SLED intentionally covers up for certain public officials.
LOL!! Going to appeal it to Queen Jean & Company!! LMAO!!
They shouldn’t be given the power to rule over themselves, but they have to take that power away from themselves, so all in all the only way this will ever get fixed is to replace these fuckers with decent people who will at least dismantle this horrible system.
And considering how SC keeps voting the same damn people in, this will never happen.
Wilson claims he’s doing all this for the public, but clearly the public has done it to themselves.
The “Christian Conservatives” sold their soul to the devil when they when they went all in with the Republican Party. It’s all about money and power and CCs gave it all away in the name of Jesus.
…and, they turned into the TEAvangelicals.
READ AND WEEP SCOOTER
COLUMBIA — A judge on Monday DISMISSED allegations of corruption against House Speaker Bobby Harrell, ruling such a case must first be considered by a legislative panel before state prosecutors could touch it and saying a State Grand Jury was IMPROPERLY empaneled.
In his ruling, Manning said state law requires the ethics panel to be the first to consider such a case anyway, saying it was IMPROPER to take the issue to the State Grand Jury right away.
“Until the South Carolina House of Representatives Ethics Committee has either referred the matter to Attorney General Wilson or has otherwise acted on the complaint, EXCLUSIVE jurisdiction resides solely within the South Carolina House of Representatives Ethics Committee,” Manning wrote, saying the matter was “solely within the purview” of that panel.
“The constitution and state statutes are clear on these issues,” Harrell said. “Rather than discussing the merits of the case, the Attorney General continues to play politics.
BAM! …..BA-BAM! …..BA-BA-BAM!….BA-BA-BA-BAM!…..
WILSON LOST BAD.
ALAN WILSON’S GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IS NULL AND VOID
“Judge to AG Wilson: Stop SLED and grand jury probe of House Speaker Harrell”
Circuit Judge Casey Manning ruled Monday that Attorney General Alan Wilson and SLED must stop their ongoing state grand jury criminal investigation of possible ethics violations by House Speaker Bobby Harrell.
Manning, in a five-page order, ruled that any action taken by Wilson’s grand jury to date “is null and void.” The grand jury has been operating since around January.
Moreover, Manning also effectively disbanded the state grand jury that had been investigating Harrell and revoked a previous court order that had brought that body into being. He also ordered the state grand jury as well as any other investigative agency not to take “any further investigative action” concerning Harrell’s alleged ethics violations.
The case must first be handled in the S.C. House of Representatives, Manning said, and any action by the attorney general at this time is “premature.”
if the Ethics Committee referred ethics violations to the attorney general, the attorney general could then — and only then — begin a criminal investigation of Harrell.
But at this point, “Any investigation by the state grand jury at this stage is illegitimate because the (Ethics) Act’s administrative remedies have not been exhausted,” Manning wrote.
Manning said a separate provision in the Constitution, mandating separation of powers among the three branches of government, gives the Legislature full authority over ethics investigations.
Manning’s decision also cited a 1994 State Supreme Court opinion, State v. Thrift, in which the high court held that legislative ethics act violations are civil, not criminal.
I noticed how you left out the part where Charlie Condon said “the judge made a factual error that he should correct.” That’s just a polite way of saying the ruling was political B.S.
BLAH BLAH BLAH….no it’s not, they are desperately looking for ways to appeal ….good luck on appeal ….hahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
I be “Anonymous” too supporting Rep. Bobby Harrell.
The Judge’s ruling was a NO-BRAINER, easy call. What everyone should be asking is why would AG Wilson pursue such an IMPROPER and FLAWED legal strategy? And he calls himself an Attorney General….
I know of a case, where there was a Grand Jury investigation, no evidence, just the request and allegations, of a high ranking political figure. It lasted for the better part of a year, the costs to taxpayer was enormous.
The reason, to try and find something to discredit a spouse, who caught the official with his wife.
I’ll never believe Toal was not involved also. The offended party was slaughtered in Court! His guilt, he caught the two in an affair. The Judge was one of Toal’s “GOTO” ass kissers!
Whatever! ….Blah …Blah…Blah….
How did they get ears to grow on that dick?
How did they get a nose to grow on that dick?
How does it eat?
This is what happens when you elect people on sound bytes and party extremes… The South is plagued with hate, and they have the bibles to prove they’re right. They figure “what difference does it make if the Republicans steal our money and get high on our supply? As long as they *say* they’re extreme!”
Maybe if you allow corruption long enough, they’ll repeal legal abortion and the South will rise again, more stupid than ever!
How long have you lived in Texas?
Long enough that I can barely feel it anymore.
Harrell is neither conservative nor liberal. He does only what is in the interest of himself. On his side you will find corrupt Republicans, corrupt Democrats, and corrupt Independents. Against him you will find fairly honest Republicans, fairly honest Democrats, and fairly honest Independents.
Regarding your tangent on the South and hate, if you think the South is worse than NYC, Boston, Chicago, or LA, you might want to consider getting out more often.
Hey fuck you… I have an opinion just like you do. Oh wait… that wasn’t nice, was it?
My opinion was formed from a long life and rich experiences. The South sucks in a different way than the rest of the states – they prize ignorance, hubris, and their magical thinking reinforces the poverty and lack of education of the entire area.
Every conservative in the place is walking around with a chip on their shoulder. *PROUD* of it.
Seems like every couple decades or so the feds (DOJ) have to come in and clean up corrupt pols in SC — since the voters can’t or won’t.
They need to bring back the Reconstruction.
IT’S OVER….ALL BUT THE CRYING….
“SC watchdog group: No plan to send Harrell complaint to House panel”
The leader of a government watchdog group who accused House Speaker Bobby Harrell of corruption said Monday she has no plans to ask the House Ethics Committee to investigate those charges.
IT’S OVER SCOOTER!
Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2014/05/12/4224274/sc-watchdog-group-no-plan-to-send.html?sp=/99/134/575//#storylink=cpy
LOL. You are desperate for it to be over. Fat chance of that. Wilson & SLED are continuing their investigation. Have you been called in front of the grand jury yet?
I’m not desperate for it to be over, the fact of the matter is that it is over, including the Grand Jury investigation, read the Judge’s Order, What would really be funny if Harrell brings Contempt of Court charges against Wilson for violating the Judge’s Order and then makes Wilson pay for all of Harrell’s legal fees
Wrong again, ass wipe.
Scooter, what would really be funny if Harrell brings Contempt of Court charges against Wilson for violating the Judge’s Order and then makes Wilson pay for all of Harrell’s legal fees.
As long as a Republican suffers, we all win.
Why ask demons, like you, to entertain a criminal complaint? Harrell is going to experience the wrath of We The People. You will see, fool. And as to your real name, its posted on a website.
I have been waiting for today to see all the haters out there freaking out that state law actually had to be followed. Judge Manning did what the law said needed to be done. I am sick and tired of everyone wanting to bypass the law for their own agenda. (yes, that includes Landess, Crangle, Wilson, and you too Folks!) Don’t like the law, then demand your representative change it. Rep won’t change it, then elect a new rep or heck, run for office yourself. It is pretty sad the negativity that has been hurled at Harrell before any of the facts of the investigation were presented. Hopefully now everyone will get a change to see the AG’s/SLED’s investigation findings and see if there was ever anything that implicated Harrell other than politically motivated opposition.
Harrell will be confronted by thousands and kicked in the balls?
Scooter, you should install a breathalyzer on your computer to automatically shut down.
Please have patience with me as I try to explain this to you ignorant people. I appoint or allow the appointment of the judges. I appointed the chief justice. I appoint the members to the ethics committe. I appoint all lawmakers to their respective committee assignments. I approve what legislation makes it to the floor. Are you idiots getting the picture? Im running the fucking show!
Now, having said that……….thanks for the 12K raise. You should have expected that after you stuck your dirts noses in my business! Do you know how fucking expensive it is to fly from Charleston to Columbia everyday? A damn fortune!
Now get your ass back to work and keep that tax money flowing! I have bills to pay.
Btw. Fuck off Wilson!
Scooter, it’s over, haven’t you read the newspapers yet? Haven’t you read the Court Order? Haven’t you read that no one is going to bring the complaint to the House Ethics committee? Haven’t you read that Wilson will lose on appeal with the Supreme Court? ….IT’S OVER!….Move on….
PLEASE PRESENT YOUR EVIDENCES MR. HARRELL THAT YOU FLY TO COLUMBIA AND NOT SOME FAR OFF LAND; YOUR FLIGHT PLANS AND FUEL RECEIPTS WILL SUFFICE. AND BE KIND TO MR. WILSON, HE MIGHT BE LICKING HIS WOUNDS BUT WOUNDS HEAL AND YOU TWO MUST BE KIND TO EACH OTHER, IT MUST END NOW OR I’M TELLING Pi; LIKE HE DON’T ALREADY KNOW, PUT IT THERE PALS, BE FRIENDS, SHAKE THE DISEASE PLEASE.
PLEASE PRESENT YOUR EVIDENCES MR. HARRELL THAT YOU FLY TO COLUMBIA AND NOT SOME FAR OFF LAND; YOUR FLIGHT PLANS AND FUEL RECEIPTS WILL SUFFICE. AND BE KIND TO MR. WILSON, HE MIGHT BE LICKING HIS WOUNDS BUT WOUNDS HEAL AND YOU TWO MUST BE KIND TO EACH OTHER, IT MUST END NOW OR I’M TELLING Pi; LIKE HE DON’T ALREADY KNOW, PUT IT THERE PALS, BE FRIENDS, SHAKE THE DISEASE PLEASE.
Get out the popcorn…
BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General to Defy Judge, Keep Harrell Investigation Alive.
http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/13/3444117/wilson-to-defy-judge-keep-harrell.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1
Harrell responded quickly.
“The Attorney General’s statement today that he will defy a court order is proof that he’s just playing politics,” Harrell said in a news conference. “The Attorney General hasn’t been following the law throughout this entire case. I’m not surprised that he will continue to do that.
Harrell said that until there’s “a decision by the Supreme Court, Judge Manning’s order is the law of the land. … The law is clear that ethics issues are supposed to go to the ethics committee for administrative purposes before they go to the attorney general’s office.”
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/13/3444117/wilson-to-defy-judge-keep-harrell.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
Its a criminal matter. Harrell is expected to lynched by mobs?
Scooter, you should install a breathalyzer on your computer for the on/off switch.
Get out the popcorn…
BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General to Defy Judge, Keep Harrell Investigation Alive.
http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/13/3444117/wilson-to-defy-judge-keep-harrell.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1
THEY’LL NEVER LEARN.
Keep fighting the good fight Alan.
The good fight? That’s an oxymoron.
IT MAY BE SOMETHING LIKE AN OXYMORON. IS “THE BAD FIGHT.” ALSO AN OXYMORON; WELL SOMETHING IS WEIRD BUT THEY ARE NOT CONTRADICTORY (A FIGHT IS A FIGHT) AS IN ALAN HARRELL OR BOBBY WILSON, WHICH ARE THE SAME IF YOU JUST LOOK AT IT RIGHT. THEY ARE BOTH, ALONE TOGETHER. ACTUALLY, I’M NOT SURE.
damn Ron, stop yelling
Bring in the feds.
Scooter, it’s not a federal issue. The Judge has ruled, Wilson lost. It’s over.
Hi Bobby!
Don’t think so Scooter.
It may not have to be a federal election to be a federal issue. Below is a link to US Attorney involvement in a New York City mayoral race that was rigged by a NY State senator.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/02/sen-malcolm-smith-arrested-in-alleged-plot-to-rig-nyc-mayors-race/
The Judge has ruled, Wilson lost. It’s over.
Are you old enough to remember Lost Trust?
And your point is?
I REMEMBER OPERATION LOST TRUST MR. NITRAT, THE FEDS LEFT SLED AND ALL OF THEM THERE IN THE BLACKEST DARK. ANYBODY WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE IN MY JAGUAR?, I JUST GOT A KILO OF COKE, WHAT DO YOU SAY, WANNA TAKE A RIDE, DON’T WORRY THE FEDS AREN’T LOOKING, OH NO; AND YOU CAN TRUST ME, I’M RON; BUT I’M NOT LOST AND TRUST IS GONE, THE TURF WAR BETTER BE OVER, YOU TWO; I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, IT HAPPENED IN 84 AND NOW THE NIGHTMARE RETURNS, FUCKING GREED, I’M TELLING Pi, THE CREATOR, ASSHEADS.
You should be left hanging from a tree?
The public is going to take baseball bats into their hands and start swinging?
If you see Harrell in person out in the public, walk right up to him and give him a swift kick in the balls?
Burn effigies of Harrell and Manning?
Piss On Harrell and Manning? Certainly!
The Judge Manning’s ruling was a NO-BRAINER, easy call. What everyone should be asking is why would AG Wilson pursue such an IMPROPER and FLAWED legal strategy? And he calls himself an Attorney General….
Charter busses to come into the City of Columbia loaded with hundreds of protestors, demanding Harrell resign. All the major news networks will be there. STAY TUNED!!
Wilson and Harrell — “Two men* go into the dome, one comes out”
If we at least get rid of one of them in this bout, that’s good enough for me I guess.
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*For the sake of argument
BTW: Did SC ever have a reasonable preponderance of decent honest people in the legislature.
Judge Casey Manning wrote in his decision that AG Wilson had not made the case that the allegations were worse than ethics violations. “Despite multiple requests, the Attorney General has failed to offer or present to the court any evidence or allegations which are criminal in nature,” Manning wrote.
Judge Manning’s order, which said that neither the grand jury “nor any other investigative agency shall take any further action” on the ethics-related allegations until the House Ethics Committee either decides on the case or refers the matter to the Attorney General.
“There is no investigation, there is no grand jury,” Harrell said. “The judge asked him repeatedly, ‘Tell me something that you’ve got.’ He (AG Alan Wilson) failed to come up with anything.
In Contempt
“The attorney general has not yet filed an appeal. He may wait as long as he can so he can continue to defy Manning’s order to halt his investigation and not run the risk that the Supreme Court also would order him to stop.” …”Once Wilson files an appeal, he is under the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction.”
We already know that the three living ex-Attorneys General support Wilson. Here is a sampling of other policy leaders on this subject.
Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, R-Cherokee, and an ethics committee member:
“I was surprised at the ruling and I don’t support the ruling. … I think this case rises to a higher level than a House or Senate ethics committee. It’s obviously moved on up.”
Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland, and a Senate ethics committee member:
“Criminal investigations cannot preclude a selected class. You cannot have two levels of citizenship as far as criminal investigations and activities. And the way this is going, that’s how this looks to me. … All citizens under the law should be treated equally. The General Assembly should not have a privileged position.”
Sen. Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, and a Senate ethics committee member:
“I don’t think the attorney general should have to wait on a referral from us to move forward. … I don’t know that anybody should be precluded from taking a case to the state grand jury just because it initiated itself out of an ethics complaint.” Ethics committees should handle smaller, more technical ethics issues, Hutto said.
Sen. Wes Hayes, R-York, and a Senate ethics committee member considered the ‘dean’ of ethics:
Manning’s ruling suggests all cases against legislators must go through the House and Senate ethics committees before the attorney general can investigate, Hayes said. “That’s not what the law says or that’s not our intent. That would not apply to the judiciary or the legislative branch or any constitutional (offices). … The attorney general can and should, when the law has been broken, be able to prosecute anyone in the state. No one is above the law.”
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/05/13/3444117/wilson-to-defy-judge-keep-harrell.html?sp=/99/205/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
If and When and Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda …..Blah………Blah………Blah….
The Judge has ruled, Wilson lost, it’s over…..
The Judge Manning’s ruling was a no-brainer, easy call. What everyone should be asking is why would AG Wilson pursue such an IMPROPER and FLAWED legal strategy? And he calls himself an Attorney General….
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION / PROSECUTION OF NON-FEDERAL OFFICIALS FOR PERSONAL USE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS
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MARCH 3, 2014
“Indiana State Police and the FBI are investigating the spending of campaign funds by the mayor of the small Madison County city of Elwood….His campaign finance records show that he spent about $7,000 for wireless phone service and nearly $4,000 for cable TV. Money also was allegedly used to pay for hotel rooms….”
http://www.ibj.com/police-fbi-investigate-elwood-mayors-campaign-spending/PARAMS/article/46447
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APRIL 28, 2014
“Former Jersey City Council candidate Lavern Webb-Washington today admitted illegally using contributions to her political campaign for her personal use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced….U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford, with the investigation leading up to today’s guilty plea.”
http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/Webb-Washington,%20Lavern%20Plea%20News%20Release.html
Scooter, we aren’t in Indiana or New Jersey. Sorry Scooter.
Judge Casey Manning wrote in his decision that AG Wilson had not made the case that the allegations were worse than ethics violations. “Despite multiple requests, the Attorney General has failed to offer or present to the court any evidence or allegations which are criminal in nature,” Manning wrote.