I realize that it had been a while since I wrote about my old buddy. But that is the great point with Jim Clyburn: something that he is involved with goes wrong, and he will always blame it on someone else. I submit Exhibit A.
An article in the Sumter Item this week said that the $150 million Lake Marion Regional Water Authority project has run out of money. How does that happen? Easy. It seems that the money comes like a faucet - it turns on, then shuts off. You'd think that was the whole point of earmarks - hide the project, slap it onto something else, and get your money.
Here's the problem. The Army Corps of Engineers has a system where they rate which projects to work on, and so some of the money intended for the LMRWA went to something else, and now, they've run out of moolah. Your tax dollars at work! When asked, Clyburn did what he usually does - blame someone else. In essence, Jim said his job is to just get the money, not to make sure it goes where it's supposed to go - kinda like the fake Rolex guy on the corner.
Fear not, Old Jim says he'll fix it - by going back to DC and appropriating MORE MONEY for the project. Nevermind that the the Army Corps ripped us off, just jack up our taxes that much more. It's agood time to remind everyone that Clyburn lives on Lake Marion, so if everyone on the lake had to get a Dasani fountain installed, he'd do it. He doesn't want their water tasting like poo, but it is okay if it smells a bit like pork......
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everyone has their "pipe dream". but clyburn has more than a few.
ya got yer Jim Clyburn pedestrian overpass, a regional water authority, the bridge to nowhere (i'm sorry - you stopped that, didn't you?) ... any chance he can build me something?
I wonder why he wants it. He already said he did not need the retirees here and so forth you know he doesn't want to help them right. I forgot he has that I-95 corridor dream a Greenville/Spartanburg of the Pee Dee/ Lake Marion/ Santee Cooper area of SC. You reckon anyone outside SC invested there. Maybe Germany, Japan, New York ?
Until the infrastructure and schools improve, that will be a dream.... As far as I know, there are no major Int'l companies coming to the corridor south of Florence. Earl would probably know more than me. The city of Florence i planning on supplying watre all the way to the lake. Hopefully, they won't cross paths with LMRWA - the goal needs to be maximum coverage , not fighting each other.
I seem to recall that Mr. Clyburn told us during his ETV debate two years ago, that it was his water funding that brought to Florence the "Monster.com" company and their promise of several thousand new jobs... Today they employ less than 150 people and the water funding obviously had nothing to do with what Jim told us.
Remember in November, pull the lever for the OTHER Jim!!!
Jim Pratt for Congress.com
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