Posted by
Jack Cruger on Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:00:59 AM
(803) 212-6032
Dear State Senator Ray Cleary:
The more I read about you guys in Columbia, the more I don’t understand why you can’t seem to get the priorities of the State in the right order.
With the major crime rate in our State, I would think that the $6 million that the State government is spending on security, of the Statehouse in Columbia, could and should be used for law enforcement solving the major crime problems in our State.
It is really sad when our local elected officials have the ego to think that they, by diverting law enforcement officers from other more important assignments, should be protected from the bad guys while our citizens are mowing each other down on our streets.
Maybe you think that a bombed Statehouse would make the State run better. What’s next? Flack jackets? Well maybe not a bomb but certainly a good house cleaning would in my opinion.
I also don’t understand why every other State in the Country has the Governor responsible for the preparation and approval of the State budget and not some Budget and Control Board within the State legislator. The Governor is the Commander-In-Chief of the State and is responsible to set the policy direction and their priorities. He should be the one to draft Budget
The current method is obviously not working since our State is at the bottom of every good list and at the top of every bad list nationally.