Thursday THRASH Award: SC Association of Taxpayers (updated)
According to the latest Winthrop/ETV poll,
The message began showing up in mailboxes last week in the form of 10,000 postcards sent to Republican activists by the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers…
Several Senate staffers said the chart on the postcards is the same chart that R.J. Reynolds lobbyists were showing some state senators in weeks prior…
The postcard also warns that the “hospital industry and insurance company special interests want Legislators to raise your taxes!”…
“We got some donations,” Weaver said, when asked if R.J. Reynolds paid for the postcards. “We get a lot of corporate donations, let’s put it that way.”
Um, this might go without saying, but R.J. Reynolds couldn’t give a flying trapeze artist about our tax policy in
Update: Somebody slipped Gervais an email to let me know that the SC Association of Taxpayers is not a non-profit, and sure enough I can't find SCAT on the SC Secretary of State website anywhere. According to the SCAT website, it is "an independent, privately funded research group whose purpose is to encourage government to work more efficiently." Let me pare that down for you: Advocacy for Hire.
Using Big Tobacco money to mail out Big Tobacco propaganda to
The Howard Rich Advocacy & Shilling for Hire (THRASH) awards were created to honor South Carolina political advocacy groups that are controlled by, funded by, or specifically created by out of state interests under the guise of representing the actual interests and values of actual South Carolinians.
3 comments:
Mark Sanford has had 6 years to clean up the ethical swamp that is SC politics.
Instead, he has encouraged the flow of HUGE sums of out of state money into SC. This money, mostly hidden from the average SC resident, has corrupted virtually every major issue of our time.
Sanford's reliance on out of state money is creepy.
Much like the Policy Council and the Club for Growth...they will take most anyone’s money and pump out "research" and media releases.
Fortunately, they are like their sisters at SCRG...lazy and usually ineffective.
Poey on them.
And this is the group who "honored" state treasurer Curtis loftis with the "friend of the taxpayers" award. What a laughing joke. Be proud, Curtis, so proud. Bwahahahaha! If that's the best you've got, flaunt it.
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