SC lawmakers didn't know $1.5 million was for private 'school?' Is that some sort of joke?
Only South Carolina lawmakers could claim they didn’t know exactly how $1.5 million was going to be spent before giving it away — and then believe that’s a legit defense for the boondoggle.
The attempt to distance themselves from the initial intent of the giveaway shows the need for reforming the state’s budget process to ensure money isn’t being wasted and spent in ways that are against this little thing called the South Carolina Constitution.
Lawmakers who supported giving $1.5 million in public money to Christian Learning Centers of Greenville are now claiming they didn’t know the centers were going to build a school with the money and that it isn’t actually building a school despite “school” being written all over the proposal for the spending.
In a report by The State’s Zak Koeske, Rep. Mike Burns, R-Greenville and Rep. John McCravy, R-Greenwood said “they hadn’t read the proposal before sponsoring the project, which the General Assembly included in its annual spending plan, but that preliminary discussions with the group had not involved a school.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sc-lawmakers-didn-t-know-110300158.html
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