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Nomadron,

There is a great deal of truth to your statement. However, we need to consider the following points:

•The majority of the New Council have already made public statements which are less than friendly toward Mr. Joey Preston.•The Administrator is the only one on county payroll with a contract which includes three years severance pay.•The majority of the Present Council do believe that Mr. Joe Preston has performed well and honorably, and they do have the voters' mandate until December 31, 2008, to make decisions based on their best judgment.•Allowing Mr. Preston’s contract to end with one year severance pay would be a compromise decision, which would save Anderson County from potential future legal battles, at a great cost to taxpayers.

-art-kaldas

non-seq, the committee is having trouble dealing with a lawyer with the integrity to give them legal advice instead of legal sanction for actions already taken or currently under consideration.
This is my take on the buyout scenario.The personnel committee, two lame ducks and a Joey groupie, will continue to "have questions" that allow them not to report to the full Council. Then, at the last December meeting, there will be a wham bam, screw you ma'am vote to buy JRP out and the gavel will fall.Done deal, no need to squeal. And it will be a good bit more than $500K.
Still,given Joey's profligate ways, speaking financially, of course, it might still be a deal.

All parties to the contract agreed, I think your scenario is a good one. Although, the "hanging around" issue is often not a good one for the new coach, leader, administrator. Usually, the "consulting" tapers off quickly, because the new coach wants to do his/her own thing. That aside, I like you thinking.

-republikin

Hey, Stanley. Amy hasn't mentioned you. Republikin has. They are NOT the same person. Because you and several others names are the same person, you seem to think others are.

-republikin

Wyatt, the next Council meeting should be the 18th, two weeks after the usual meeting on the first Tuesday, which was November 4 this year. The first November meeting was moved to the 3rd because of elections. Of course, elections didn't interfere with the personnel committee charged with addressing the Preston buyout having their meeting that evening. The only thing that interfered with that was the lawyer Council hired, who apparently has this weird concept that he should give the best legal advice available instead of justifying decisions already reached.
When all the dust settles, and an actual bidding process is used to obtain a new county attorney, I hope this guy Bright makes a bid.
And yes, Stupid, I know professional services don't have to be bid out. But they can be, and I think a stringent bid process on every thing the county does would be a great start on both saving lots of money and getting jobs done right the first time which of course would also save lots of money!!

Hey, Art! Good to see you're still alive! How about Ed Jean? Anybody seen or heard from him?

dunebuggy does that mean you'll be there?

-noeline

Amen!And politics aside, thanks to all who stand in harm's way for us. Be safe and we hope to see you home soon.

This is an unbelievable quote from Joe Biden: "Look, I think the issue is: What does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe? I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden said. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."To him, feminism and liberalism are one and the same. Talk about a clue-free zone. [image]

-stringcheese

I'm with Hankey on this one.I keep bumping my nose on my monitor screen trying to read this damn thing!

Never in a million years would I have made any connection between a statement like “lipstick on a pig” (Senator Obama was ridiculing the republican’s decision to all of a sudden become “the party of change”) as a derogatory reference to VP nominee Governor Palin.I wondered where this connection came from and it occurred to me. Republicans have been taught (brainwashed maybe) to respond to and to draw specific personal conclusions from the meaningless buzzwords used by the party. I would not be expedient to call Senator Barack Hussein Obama II (yeah it was his daddy’s name too) a ‘nigger’ in public, so instead he is called a ‘Muslim’ because he has a funny middle name and the party faithful all nod and wink because they know what it really means.I am not trying to convert anyone here. It is a foregone conclusion that Senator McCain and Governor Palin will receive the electoral votes from the State of South Carolina. The unfortunate result is that the division, hatred and ‘win at any cost’ strategy of the Republican Party will once again succeed.

-g-papadopolis

String, Rudy Guiliani asked a CBS anchor during an interview atthe convention where all the feminists had gone. He got no anwser. Here's the real deal on Sara Palin. she has Obama and the Democrats running agains ther and not McCain. And THAT is a tremendous asset in a VP candidate. there are 50 days left till the election,and everyone Obama wastes worrying about Palin is a good day for the Republicans.

Hankey, what else did Carithers do? What do you know about that transaction? Check back and see how many real estate transactions involving the county HAVEN'T involved Marshall Carithers in the last ten years. Hehas become rich doing real estate deals for the county. Whose money do you think bought that place in Cashiers,NC where he and his pal hang out? Or the beach house in Charleston, where they take Council members to wine and dine them?
What could he have possibly done that was worth $60K on the Dolly Cooper deal? I'm listening.
As to the library, what possible use is there for a two story building that has only one story? And the fact is that the library and the government services there do not keep a full business schedule. The library was open about 30 hours a week last time I was there, and much like Dolly Cooper park, it is used heavily by Greenville county residents. I have no problem with that, except that they are getting something for free that you andI are paying for. Do you think anyone in Williamston, which by the way has a forty year old one story library building, are using that library in Cooperstown?You asked for some projects. there they are. If you prefer denial, that's your choice.
Try this one on for size. Maybe you'd like it more. The beautiful but infamous road tonowhere that was built into Larry Greer's district, along with a sewer line that was supposed to serve a large poultry processor. But the county didn't get the deal signed before they hiked their skirts and gave away the goods. so now folks in Iva are paying grossly inflated( double or triple) sewer rates for a project that also included a huge cost overrun by BP Barber, which built the system. More Joey pals. Look into that deal, Hankey. There;s enough pork there to gag a million Muslims.

Lee - could you give an example of a pork bARREL PROJECT AND ONE THAT IS NOT?

-mr-hankey-the-d

What a great way to start the morning! A good hard laugh chases the cobwebs away, and hearing you using the word inflated certainly provided that! I think the reason you like the BalloonFest so much is that's where you learned about ground tethers.
Thanks, Amy.Have a good day.

Re:Amy, you know as well as anyone that a county employee in this county is at constant and significant risk of losing their job if they get caught crossing the party line.

I am a county employee and I have never felt that my job is at "constant and significant risk". Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have always remained neutral politically at any job I have ever had while on their payroll but, I say what I want on my own time. I can do that because I do my research before shooting my mouth off.

Quote: YOU IMPROVISE, YOU ADAPT, YOU OVERCOME. Gunnery Sgt Tom "Gunny" Highway

-kc5gpm

and so who was that?????

-mr-hankey-the-d

Hey, Nicole, I'm not surprised nutjob Ortis didn't show tonight, but where were all the PEARLs before the swine?

Chicanery...SAT word. You'd think you like knew words and stuff.

-ibvirginia

Wowell!

I have never seen such a grand=standing ploy as Palin "stepping up" to be VEEP  when Billary wasn't signed up?Can't the GOP come up with something origional?   Glass ceiling statement, Shooting the M4 assault rifle with the Guard, her beauty-queen background, the disabled kids......priceless!  Surprised they didn't have her wearing a blue dress with a Cuban cigar in her hand. 

Hmm, so If McPain wins (yeah right!) And America finally admits women ARE smart enuf to have control of the suitcase and the pursestrings of this country, do you actually believe they'd let her LIVE to realize such aspirations? Even if he's only a hundred-ninety in dog years, no way McPain would die then! Just hire Jeff Dunham to do his ventrilouquist act using McPain if he strokes out. 

At least with Obummer, you know the CIA assassins are already lining the streets of Dallas( or wherever...), planning the route and escape paths so Joe White-bread Biden can do the Dem's bidding.

-wyatt1sc

Great Job, unbiased Insufficient Mail.  Bury a historic moment for women and the GOP on page 11. 

Do you ever wonder why your readership and subscriptions have dwindled over the last few years?  Here's a clue.  Look at page 1, then look at page 11.

Again, Great Job.  In two years we will all have to get the Greenville News for our local, regional and national news. 

 

 

-yankeefan

I thought of the Pinkard and Bowden classic, "I'd rather hear a fat girl fart than a pretty boy sing."

Goebbels on the side! JD, you're such a ham - ster.

I'm with you, JD. My son jumped me the other day because I said I would never vote for Obama. "You just won't vote for a black man," he said in all his 17 y/o self-righteousness. No, I just won't vote for that black man. Colin Powell, where are you?
Don't kbnow much about Palin (doing my research now) but she certainly shakes up the ticket,and she certainly steals some obama thunder, which was one fo the goals the day after the Dem convention. Nice tactical move, but we need to see what this woman brings to the table.

We don't care what you where having it with or if you had the air turned off.Keep it to yourself. pervert!

-mr-hankey-the-d

Wow, your so clever fried no wonder all your friends want to have hot monkey sex with you,

-blogger

Fried, It's really sad that you and a couple of others have nothing to do with your life but time how long it has been since the last blog posting.

 

-blogger

10 hours without a post? Even counting the overnight hours, this isn't a forum.
It's a bore 'em.Sheeesh! You guys may as well just meet for lunch once a month. Besides, I'm sure AIM could use Nick out on the streets again, being the balls to the wall journalist we all remember.'Cause they're sure out of other reporters. What have they got left, three?

The present is more important. Take Doug Parham, for example. He was so far up Rick Driver's butt he couldn't see daylight, as long as Rick let him call in and rant and rave and make outrageous statements about people.For example he was so crude in talking about Gracie Floyd that several of Rick's listeners caution him that Parham would make racial comments sooner or later. He called Joey a thief and a crook, and talked bout Greer and Thompson like they had dated his wife.
Then,one day he made statements that could be construed as threatening to members of the council. They were much more evocative of danger for elected officials than anything Tim Busha prodiced to cover Joey after Cater's Lake. So Rick contacted law enforement and informed them of his concerns.Doug flipped - literally. Rick banned him from the airwaves,and Doug went over to Joey's team and began attacking Rick at council meetings, during public comment. Somehow, this was allowed to pass as being public buiness by a chairman who gets his ass kicked by Rick pretty often.
Soon Doug is coming to Rick's personal appearances, such as his lunches and breakfasts with his listeners. Doug is asked at least once to leave the restaurants involved because he isn't eating.And before you accuse me of makingthisup, Rino, he hit a car in the parking lot at Ryan's while leaving so there is an incident treport on file. Go look it up - unless you were there. Then you don't need to.
So is his past or present more indicative of his character, or lack of it? His future isindicative of nothing, so it's not in the equation.