We had a bangup First Tuesday meeting in Charlotte this week. Much good information and one outstanding video were presented. I brought my life's accumulation of picket signs and introduced the topic of street action.
Issue #4 of the Real News, a print newspaper from our sister organization the S.C. Conservative Action Council, is hot off the presses. For a free copy, send me $3 for postage and handling at the main PN mailing address. My editorial in it is an exposé of the "liberal" media, focusing on the Columbia SC-based State, one of the absolute worst daily hate sheets out there.
Interest in DMSO -- the cheap but great miracle healer in a bottle -- is catching on fast. Does anybody know of a source in Greenville County?
..........This from Rebekah Sutherland. Will somebody tell us what our new governor is really made of:
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On the June 9, 2011, FoxNews show by Greta van Susteren, the South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley informed the audience that her agenda includes plans to consolidate ALL of the email/website/internet sites used by each of the state bureaucracies into on agency, which will be called the Office of Administration. Oversight for that office would be provided by the Governor. The Senate did not approve of her plan and that is why she tried to man-handle them back into session . . . without pay . . . to vote on it.
LINK to the website - look for Haley's photo:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/index.html
Hello? Did y'all know about her plan?
Is this what you want . . total control by the state's Governor over all of the data that is housed in the state computers?
Reporting.
R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences
Freelance Investigative Reporter
This news was also covered by The Nerve, as are other items of interest:
Legislator Pushes for Hearings on Gasoline Price Cap
S.C. Sen. Dick Elliott – who is sponsoring legislation to cap wholesale gas prices in South Carolina – wants to bring in executives from large oil companies for questioning regarding the sharp uptick in fuel prices over the past year. Read the rest of Investigative Reporter Kevin Dietrich’s story here.
BCB Hard to Kill in Department of Administration Bill
Even if the General Assembly does approve a bill creating a Department of Administration in the next couple of weeks, proponents of doing away with the Budget and Control Board – the impetus behind the proposal – are likely going to be less than satisfied. Read the rest of Investigative Reporter Eric Ward’s story here...............That high-and-mighty curse on planet Earth known as the Bilderburg group has gone from total secrecy to healthy public awareness in recent years. This is partly due to the left catching on to this subject of supposed right-wing-fanatic imagining. There was a 99.999% blackout on the group's existence and workings when I first got political, but now it's one of the top headlines at drudgereport.com (Thursday, at least) and even CNBC news is exposing it -- well, insofar as CNBC news is capable!
Rich, Famous and Powerful Converge at Bilderberg
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43325286
Almost incredibly, the other Western nations are waking up to what criminally insane monsters ameriKa's supposed leaders are and even trying to do something about it!
Bombshell: Swiss Parliamentarians to Force Way Into Bilderberg
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 10, 2011
Other headlines formerly unthinkable are becoming more common:
Israeli Espionage in America
“Over 125 investigations into Israeli Espionage in America… stopped due to political pressure.”
-- FBI Counter Intel Officer John Cole
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/08/phil-giraldi-spills-the-beans-on-israeli-espionage-in-america/
...............Taxes are a dismal subject, but there are headlines which make it all worth it for their sheer tragicomic irony!
Published: June 09, 2011
Updated: June 09, 2011 - 8:19 PM
Updated: June 09, 2011 - 8:19 PM
Delinquent Tax Office Loses Funding Due To "Inefficiency"
By Chris Cato
A county office responsible for collecting money may be losing a lot of it.
At a budget workshop on Wednesday, Spartanburg County Council voted unanimously to strip $300,000 from the Delinquent Tax Office.
Council member David Britt says the move is a result of what council considers "inefficiency" with the way the office is operated.
"There's some concerns that things haven't been done exactly like we want them to be done, and that's why we took the scapel out here and cut $300,000 out," says Britt.
The DTO is responsible for collecting late property tax payments and selling property for which taxes have not been paid.
Britt says most of the problems center around issues with how the office goes about posting delinquent tax notices. He says the office is not always following state law, which has resulted in numerous property sales being overturned by courts.
"When that property is sitting there in delinquency, the county is not collecting tax revenue on it, so all taxpayers are being hurt," says Britt.
He says he and other council members learned of these issues last year when a group of real estate paralegals came to them, complaining about obstacles they encountered regularly when working with the office. He says the county has also been threatened with lawsuits by mortgage companies.
"There was a paralegal from Greenville in here not long ago and they were suing Spartanburg County on behalf of their lender because they had sold the property and the lender never knew it was going up for sale," says Becky Shield, one of the paralegals who complained to council.
Steve Ford, interim director of the DTO, defends his office, saying it has "made a lot of progress in the last two to three years" since he took over.
"There have been a few bumps here and there. It's a work in progress, but we've made a lot of improvements just within the last year," says Ford.
But he says he will also support council's decision to take away $300,000 -- even though it represents over 60% of the office's requested operating expenses for the upcoming fiscal year.
"I agree with council, we need to be looking for areas where we can cut back waste and save money," says Ford. "We can still deliver a high level of service."
He says the $300,000 is not critical to operations anymore because of changes he has made. He says when he took the reins, the office was contracting with an outside agency to perform services like post delinquent notices and conduct property record searches. He did away with the practice.
"That's not necessary when you have people in-house who can perform those tasks," says Ford.
A source within county government leadership says the county is considering putting the DTO under the authority of another department, such as the Treasurer's Office. Ford says if that's what county administration decides to do, he is all for it.
Britt says the $300,000 taken from the DTO will be used to fund outside agencies that provide valuable social services to county residents, such as SAFE Homes Rape Crisis Coalition and Children's Advocacy Center.
County council has not taken a final vote on the budget.
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