The “shocker” headline is, of course, ironic.
SC Democrats seem to thing they have a big “gotcha” in state GOP Chairman Matt Moore’s that “At times, things pass the legislature without much debate and scrutiny.”
Personally, that doesn’t seem like much of a news flash. But the Dems are making of it what they can:
BREAKING VIDEO: SCGOP Chairman Says GOP Majority Ineptly Passes Bills Without Scrutiny
Columbia, SC – Today, SCGOP Chairman Matt Moore stated that GOP leaders and elected officials in the state legislature regularly pass bills without looking at what’s in them.
In a press conference trying to distract from the mismanagement at Governor Haley’s DSS, the SCGOP chairman was asked about the massive Republican support for a bill the SCGOP was trying to use to criticize Sen. Vincent Sheheen. Moore said: “At times, things pass the legislature without much debate and scrutiny.”
SCDP Executive Director Conor Hurley released this statement:
“The comments by the SCGOP Chairman today are stunning and highly concerning. Exactly which bills has the SCGOP’s majority pushed through the House and Senate without knowing what’s in them? How long has this abdication of duty been happening? And, is it all GOP members as Chairman Moore implies, or just a select few?
“For the Chairman of a party to first call a press conference to attack his own members for being soft on crime, and then to claim that they are essentially incompetent at their jobs – the SCGOP and Haley campaign must be pretty desperate to distract from Governor Haley’s refusal to fix the mismanagement at her Department of Social Services that has allowed children to tragically die. The people of South Carolina deserve answers.”
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Anyone who spends any time at all around the State House knows that this problem occurs pretty much equally in both major parties. People trust one another when they sign on as sponsors and sometimes get surprises (ahem, H.1052 and 1053 — check out the long list of sponsors from both parties who “unsponsored” when someone pointed out what they had signed on to). Then there are the House members of both parties who voted to require people with physical disabilities to get a physician’s certificate that they are unable to vote in person, when that is pretty much the equivalent of a poll tax and violates federal law (S.4 as recently amended in subcommittee and passed in full House Judiciary). The ultimate hypocrisy, though, is when they accuse someone in the other party of hypocrisy — also an equal opportunity bipartisan game.
Correction — that should be H. 5072 and 5073 above.
re: “Bills sometimes don’t receive sufficient scrutiny”
This faux confession, merely mimics the claims of Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers Jr. (LL.B. from Wayne State University) who voted for Obamacare so that she would know what was in it, and that it would take a team of lawyers to understand, respectively.
What should be clear is that voters are witnessing a cowardly political class masquerading as two contentious parties when substantively, while leaders coordinate carefully staged public dramas to manipulate a dumbed down public.
Not a whimper from the 4th estate.
“massive Republican support for a bill the SCGOP was trying to use to criticize Sen. Vincent Sheheen”
so….what’s the bill?
Uhhh… good question…