Cindi Ross Scoppe
Editorial Writer and Columnist at Post and Courier
Editorial writer and columnist for The Post and Courier of Charleston.
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
The last time S.C. budget earmarks went away, there was no big announcement. Just a recession, which necessitated painful mid-year budget cuts and left lawmakers with no pile of one-time money to fund the special pork projects that the Legislature had grown proficient at masquerading in order to evade then-Gov. Mark Sanford’s veto pen. Wednesday’s initial announcement that the Legislature is deliberately ending earmarks was intended to be dramatic. It just didn’t quite come off that way.
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2 weeks ago |
aikenstandard.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
You know how all those nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court try to be circumspect — to reassure senators who see the world their way without crossing a line and saying well, yes, I do want to ensure that corporations always have as many rights as actual human beings and pretend that money is the same as speech and that the word "militia" isn't part of the Second Amendment? Not to mention that whole abortion mess.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
Over the course of just more than a year, one of the state’s sheriffs was charged with sexually assaulting and unlawfully restraining a woman. Another was charged with assault after he was recorded on video kicking a man in his department’s custody. Another up and moved his family to Tennessee mid-COVID, kept drawing his growing paycheck and was at best less than honest with the public about where he lived.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
Over the course of just more than a year, one of the state’s sheriffs was charged with sexually assaulting and unlawfully restraining a woman. Another was charged with assault after he was recorded on video kicking a man in his department’s custody. Another up and moved his family to Tennessee mid-COVID, kept drawing his growing paycheck and was at best less than honest with the public about where he lived.
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1 month ago |
postandcourier.com | Cindi Ross Scoppe
This was budget week in the S.C. House, so we got to hear about the 10 Commandments and abortion and undocumented immigrants and outlawing COVID mandates and “weather manipulation” and ESG and making sure library boards don’t give preferential treatment to job applicants who have been trained to be librarians.
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Forget Mississippi. After Tuesday, it's time for South Carolinians to start saying "Thank God for WIsconsin." https://t.co/knjWZ0dx2j
Lobbying wasn’t a thing at the local level back then, so the law applied only to people lobbying the Legislature. Lawmakers have refused to change that, even as the problem has spread to our cities and counties, but local officials could fix the problem. https://t.co/WgWSrXsvYi
When Vermont found itself in a sheriff corruption crisis, its legislature did something ours would never dream of doing. https://t.co/mxZVTXF42d