Just thought I should make note of this alignment of the planets.
Remember how I reported, two days ago, that the S.C. Policy Council was actually advocating for government spending? Well, actually, they were griping about the House and Senate increasing their own budgets while making cuts to worthwhile programs, but still: The Policy Council acknowledging any government spending as worthwhile? It was news.
Well, according to a release I got from him this morning, Anton Gunn is in complete agreement with the Policy Council, and NOT just about the idea that some government spending is worthwhile. He was also with them in getting on the House and Senate for spending on themselves:
The House and Senate Conference Committee has agreed on a $5 billion budget plan that drastically cuts public education, eliminates 74 state jobs and 1,700 jobs in local school districts. The budget also enacts major cuts to rural hospitals and health centers, while reducing access to prescription drugs for poor and disabled children. The budget plan makes drastic cuts to major state agencies yet the proposal also adds $3 million and $7 million to the House & Senate operating budgets.
Rep. Gunn said, “I think it’s immoral to force teachers into layoffs and deny disabled children access to medications but at the same time pad your own budget with extra money. This budget plan is going in the wrong direction. We need to fix this mess.”
Mind you, this is the same Anton Gunn whom TEA Party fan Sheri Few decries as a socialist.
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I would write something, but as we’ve seen before when I mention anything about Anton Gunn you don’t post it.
They add to their operating budgets while cutting the courts budget….
I mean, don’t they get plenty of free interns anyway?
So is it cynical to suggest that the proposed funding increases are just another sign of how “experienced” politicians who are not term limited are THE major culprits when it comes to the performance of our state government?
Why don’t these multi million dollar cash grabs seem to bother you? You’re more interested in the fact that Mr Gunn agrees with the council than in the ongoing wasteful spending.
Well Doug, I was kind of thinking that if SC Policy Council says it, and Anton says it too, they must be onto something.
That’s about as far as I can go, though, without hearing more about it. The bad news is that — as my friends at the Policy Council inform me — nobody is making a case for the added legislative spending. So that makes it sound pretty fishy. Either that, or just ineptitude.
But that has nothing to do with experience. It does have to do with a dearth of leadership, which is a problem endemic to legislatures (which is one reason I attach so much importance to the leadership a governor can provide).
As things stand, with no one making the case for it, there’s no way this added spending should remain. Everybody should follow Anton’s lead and vote against it.
Anton’s lead… as if he’s the one leading this, he’s just the one who ran to the media and now everyone is to believe it’s it’s pet project.
Does Sheri Few call him a Socialist? Or does she just link him to his liberal mentor Barack Obama?
Gunn did spend the lion’s share of last summer going around our state pushing for socialized medicine as Obama’s South Carolina Director of Organizing For America. Socialist? Maybe not in everything… maybe just ultra-liberal? If the shoe fits Mr. Gunn, he has to wear it.