Ethics Commission Member Says AG Wilson Should Investigate Haley
Rep. Joan Brady says the case has become too convuluted and that an investigation by the attorney general would assure integrity for all parties involved.
In a move that is almost sure to draw a response from Gov. Nikki Haley, a member of the ethics panel that cleared Haley earlier this month is now saying that the matter should be decided by the attorney general.
District 78 Rep. Joan Brady, R-Richland County, said that Attorney General Alan Wilson should take over the investigation into alleged improprieties on Haley's part.
Brady said Tuesday the case has become too convuluted and that Wilson's involvement could assure that both the governor and the Ethics Committee's integrity.
“Through all these silly political machinations in this process, there has been one — and only one — constant: there has been absolutely zero merit to any of the claims against the governor," Rob Godfrey, Haley spokesman. "She always followed the law. Period. That will be as true tomorrow as it was last December when John Rainey and Dick Harpootlian began this vindictive, but meritless, political goose chase.”
Brady's panel had dismissed the charges against Haley and then subsequently asked for more information from the governor.
Brady plans to make her proposal to let the attorney general take over during Wednesday's session.
The pushback Friday came on the heels of a similar effort on Thursday by Haley to point the finger at Harrell. The ethics committee is again looking into whether Haley illegally lobbied on behalf of both Lexington Medical Center and Wilbur Smith Associates, two lobbyist principals that employed the future governor when she served in the House.
John H
5:22 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
I would like to know more information about what the law actually states and who she was leagally employed by, LMC or the Foundation. The article in the State http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=13F07E4E452E37B8&p_docnum=2 presents more information than I have been able to review.
sylvia
10:53 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The good old boys just won't give up trying to oust HALEY. I knew this would happen before the election. Good old boys politicis in SC alive and well.
John H
8:02 am on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The link above does not get to the State article...appologies
Janice Davis
11:53 am on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
This is what we all should have expected from our Speaker, I wrote a letter trying to get others to support Norman as Speaker, instead of this moderate Harrell, but no one would listen and now here we are in this political mess. Everything goes back to who did not win the Governors’ race in the election and his man did not win, therefore, Harrell has a personal vendetta towards Halley and has been put in place.
We are watching here in SC the devouring of the conservative’s in office, just as fast as the moderates can get it done. Yet what they don’t see is us the people watching them and we can take them out next and put more conservative people into the House and Senate, because it’s the people who have the Rights, not the State. They have the Powers, but not without the people and cannot do anything without us.
Liberal in SC
2:11 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
SC needs to start growing our own Popcorn ! So that we can thoroughly enjoy the SC Government CLOWN SHOW that is our politics..
Watching our SNAKES in the Legislative Body investigate the SNAKE in the State House is fun enough. But to send it to AG Son of "You LIE" is even better?
John H
4:22 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
An SC Judge has already ruled that the court is not the proper venue for this ethics violation. See Patch article. Then it went to the ethics committe. Now a member of the ethics committe wants the AG to look at the possibility of bringing it back to the courts. What makes Rep Joan Brady thing the outcome will be different? Does the Rep think the court will reverse the decision as easily as she reversed her positon? At this point, I am tired of this ping pong game that the legislatures are playing. Let it go already. Bring it up during the next election and see if it sticks then.
Stephanie
11:15 am on Friday, August 10, 2012
Stop wasting the time of taxpayers and the government offices!! It's costing this state a fortune for this rabbit race that will never end. If she's guilty of something, it will eventually come out....i.e., Sanford. But, this ongoing, ever going blah, blah is mostly political man v. woman and then the ones that didn't get the appointments they were counting on. And, Dick Harpootlian doesn't even like himself and every time he opens his mouth, stupidity rolls out like an erupting volcano. So let's get back to the business of running our state into the ground like we have for the past 100 years.