In case you wonder why we can’t get anything through the Legislature to ban payday lending, here’s the rest of the story about Tommy Moore:
Moore leaving Senate for payday lending job
Former
S.C. Sen. Tommy Moore, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2006,
is going to work for national payday lending trade association.Moore, of Aiken, resigned his Senate seat on Saturday. He will
become executive vice president of the Community Financial Services
Association of America and will move to the Washington, D.C., area, the
association said Monday.“At this point in my career, I saw an exciting opportunity to take
on a new challenge that builds on my long history of supporting and
protecting consumers,” Moore said in a release from the association.
“CFSA shares those goals and I’ve been impressed with the great strides
they have taken to educate consumers about responsible use of the
service.”
Another one I’m thrilled to have endorsed last fall. Of course, the alternative was to endorse the incumbent. As "Mr. Bad Choices" implied in a recent comment, it would be nice to have some better ones for a change.
“I’ve been impressed with the great strides they have taken to educate consumers about responsible use of the service.”
O yeah, and he was also impressed by one honking salary you can be sure they laid on the table.
Did Tommy Moore stop the ban on Payday lending? I doubt it. It makes for a good headline. As usual for this paper…just not factual.
Boy, talk about being literal-minded (I refer to “jeff,” whose comment is below)…
For the rest of you, who believe that just maybe we have a culture in the Legislature that isn’t all that hard to co-opt, here’s a recent column from our own Warren Bolton.
And while I’m at it, here’s another one, which suggests maybe they DID hire the wrong guy. Others were SO deserving…
Yeah, another politician is bought. Maybe he’ll be an ‘honest’ politician and stay bought. I do not understand why it seems to be the democratic party who favors these types of things. As I’m sure you remember, it was a democratic govenor who got us the lottery, so the poorest folks could pay for the well off to go to college. I’m glad Mr. Moore is impressed with their consumer “education.” Does he not realize that people who go to payday lenders are usually desperate? They usually don’t see any way out except payday lenders, and they frequently don’t really understand accumulated interest, and don’t (or can’t) look ahead well enough to realize that they’re going to be just as poor the next payday. I tend to vote democratic, but these two issues disgust me.
Guess the boiler business isn’t paying as well as it has been. This is just like when a Congressman resigns and then takes a big lobbying job. It should make everybody on this board sick.
Yes, Karen, payday lending has particularly strong ties to Democrats. Maybe that arises from the fact that Billy Webster used to work for Bill Clinton. But there’s more to it than that, I’m sure.
The lottery scholarships have no value any more since the state colleges have been allowed to raise tuition at rates that would make a payday lender blush.
Oh, and just FYI, with reference to what "maverick" just said… South Carolina doesn’t exactly have what you’d call a stellar history when it comes to regulating BOILERS, either:
… but I should add quickly, that AFTER that death, lawmakers did take long-delayed action:
A sad day for SC’s Democrats. First, it’s former Gov. Hodges supporting a state-run lottery that feeds off of the poor. Now, we have Sen. Moore joining the payday lenders who take what remaining dignity the poor may have.
We all, regardless of party affiliation, should strive to do better.
Doug, the lottery scholarships never HAD value. When lawmakers quit funding “public” colleges at more than — what is it now, 23 percent or so? — and funneled millions through the hands of students’ parents instead, of COURSE the schools went there for the money. Basically, the Legislature is now funding colleges through “scholarships.” It would be better to send the money straight to the institutions, and to do it with taxes rather than money conned out of the gullible, but scholarships are so much better for buying votes.
Hey, where’s ol’ "Weldon VII" when we’re all whaling away on the Democrats?
You ever notice that Republicans are never around to hear it when you’re criticizing Democrats, and Democrats are never around when you’re pounding on Republicans, so that all the partisans can continue to accuse you of being "biased" toward the other side?
Well, if you were a newspaper editor, you’d notice it for sure.
Brad and Doug are EXACTLY right. As soon as the scholarship program began, the Legislature immediately reduced funding for colleges and now higher education funding is shifted to the lower income and minority lottery players who I must stand in line behind at 6:55 pm with a hot 12 pack in my hand at Young’s.
That’s one tax shift I bet Sanford loved.
Brad,
Is it just me, or are the comments now sorted in reverse chronological order? Used to be able to read from the top down…
Yeah, I sort of did that on an impulse when I was restoring some coding today, and ditching the “authentication” thing.
What do y’all think? I thought it would be nice for the first thing you see to be the latest, but then maybe it makes it harder to follow a thread chronologically.
Feedback eagerly welcomed…
Congratulations, Brad. Ol’ Weldon VII had to take the day off the blog to spend some money on being able to see the blog after his glasses literally split in half overnight.
The horn rims are on order, and a trash-bag twist-tie has united the halved spectacles so the ol’ boy can pat you on the back for catching his foot in his mouth again.
Yep, those newspaper editors do know what it’s like to be danged if they do and darned if they don’t, to be caught between a rock and a hard spot, to be stuck between a cliche and a mixed metaphor.
Heck fire, I wish I had found out about this earlier. Like a fellow riding a school bus with me once said: This is almost as big as when we beat Hartsville.
And it does provide a nice balance for the Ravenel follies.
The body politic is beset by warts, n’est-ce pas?
This news makes me sick! Get this scumbag out of the Democratic Party! These people are nothing more than loan sharks in pinstriped suits. Our entire political system is evidently corrupt from top to bottom. The Democratic Party is pathetic to have allowed this bottom feeder to become a candidate.