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    The former Director found plenty of "gain" that is for sure. It would be hard to do worse. I support the Conservation Bank. It is pathetically underfunded compared to other states, but you are right, that is a whole other conversation...

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    The Conservation Bank began with a good premise. But it grew and now purchases land also. Taxpayers just picked some new government land in Greenville.


    https://thetandd.com/news/state-and-...66be4263e.html

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    Great supporter of gun rights also.
    It's not enough to simply tolerate the 2nd Amendment as an antiquated inconvenience. Caring for the 2nd Amendment means fighting to restore long lost rights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigtimber2 View Post
    The Conservation Bank began with a good premise. But it grew and now purchases land also. Taxpayers just picked some new government land in Greenville.


    https://thetandd.com/news/state-and-...66be4263e.html
    Well, wouldn't you know it. Thanks for that. I have been upset enough with the sweetheart deals buying development rights on flooding swampland, now they are outright buying welfare land. Great...

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    They began approving private land to be protected from development via tax breaks and grants to manage the land with fees from real estate fees then grew to outright purchases .

    Lately the have purchased some without public access. So for the GA to provide more oversight they decided to fund from the General Fund.

    Here is the latest grant money

    https://sccbank.sc.gov/sites/default...%202.26.19.pdf

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    How many acres of swamp did we "protect" from housing developments this last go round?

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    Well he saved the bank from sure death before ultimately taking a bullet for it. He would take that bullet for anyone in his service to this country and did take bullets as a cop. He was not sophisticated. He is a mans man. Plain spoken, good hearted, and honest.


    He endured 4- 3 hour sessions while being Kavenaughed in the confirmation process. Now look for the bank board to be attacked and we end up with environmentalists and PETA lovers.

    He is surely better off getting away from the snake pit up here. His health should improve. I wish him happiness.
    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

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    Pitts did take a stand on the flag while others folded.

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    At least he can look himself in the mirror

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    its just not gonna be as nice of a mirror
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    COLUMBIA, SC
    Former state Rep. Mitt Pitts got a government job after all.

    The Laurens Republican, who withdrew his application to become director of the S.C. Conservation Bank amid questions of self-dealing, was named a local magistrate judge on Tuesday by his former colleagues on the Laurens County legislative delegation.

    The retired policeman’s appointment was read aloud in the state Senate late Tuesday, surprising some senators who earlier this year opposed his attempt to leap from the Legislature to a $97,000-a-year job leading the state agency that funds land conservation.

    “Mike Pitts was a conservative Republican legislator who prided himself on cutting wasteful spending until he wanted a government job,” said one of them, state Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Richland, on Tuesday. “I just find it infuriating that a guy who was disqualified for one job is safely tucked away in another government job. … This is just amazing to me — political cronyism at its worst. This is what people complain about with government: people getting government jobs because they have friends in high places.”

    Local magistrates generally are paid between $50,000 and $100,000 a year, depending on the population of the county and the magistrate’s level of experience.

    Records show state senators from Laurens County, led by Republican Danny Verdin, recommended Pitts for the job on June 7.

    Republican Gov. Henry McMaster officially nominated Pitts for the judgeship on June 17 after the former legislator passed a routine background check. The full Senate confirmed Pitts to the position with no debate Tuesday after reconvening in Columbia for the day to take up McMaster’s budget vetoes.

    Verdin was one of Pitts’ strongest supporters during Pitts’ failed confirmation to the Conservation Bank.

    After Pitts’ nomination went up in smoke, Verdin complained the process had been “very unfair” to Pitts and that Pitts had “acquitted himself well and refuted the accusation that this was a self-serving move on his part.”

    Efforts to reach Pitts and Verdin for comment Tuesday afternoon were unsuccessful.

    Pitts’ effort to lead the Conservation Bank fell apart after skeptical Democratic senators dug into his voting record in the House.

    In 2017, Pitts sponsored a bill that would have effectively abolished the agency, giving its responsibilities to the Department of Natural Resources. But a year later, as Pitts was in talks to become the agency’s director, his budget committee boosted the agency’s budget by more than $200,000 and added another full-time position to its staff.

    Pitts abstained from voting on the Conservation Bank’s budget at the time.

    But two months later, Pitts voted to kill a proposal that would have stopped legislators from taking a job with the Conservation Bank within a year after leaving office.

    Pitts won re-election to the S.C. House in November 2018 but announced just a month later he was retiring because of a heart attack he suffered in October. That triggered a special election to replace him.

    There are few qualifications to become a magistrate judge in South Carolina.

    Nominees, picked by local senators, must have at least a four-year degree.

    There is no requirement that magistrates have a law degree or have worked in law enforcement, though that experience helps overcome a steep learning curve, former magistrates have told The State.

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    Cue the Bruce Hornsby
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigtimber2 View Post
    Pitts did take a stand on the flag while others folded.
    Hence DT's comment about him being a "man's man" and not a spineless sheep

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    Should've hired Sportin Woodies for the job(s). He's a man's man.

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    Looks like Duck Tape and Pitt’s Senator buddies will need to use political nepotism to find Pitt’s another token government job.

    He really isn’t very smart just outspoken.


    https://www.postandcourier.com/news/...c08c2afcb.html




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    Like they weren't going to sneak his big government liberal ass in somewhere to soak up more of your tax dollars...

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    True.

    Even his sister was going to get paid. But he knew nothing about that.

    Explains why legislators spend thousands for a hundred job.

    https://www.fitsnews.com/2019/04/18/...ive-horseplay/


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    He is right about some things like just about everybody
    Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
    "Wow, often imitated but never duplicated. No one can do it like the master. My hat is off to you DRDUCK!"

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