Funny - he had the money to donate to the state GOP http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-RIDGEVILLE-SC.html

Well, couldn't he just pay his bills with the money that wound up missing while he was treasure of the county GOP? http://www.journalscene.com/news/Turmoil-brewing-in-county-s-Republican-Party

Hi Reg- In that same article Jordan states, "I don’t know why I should have to share my hard work,” when discussing whether he should have had to provide delegate information with another Republican. Hopefully, he will not have that attitude if he gets elected - since we have plenty of other folks in Columbia that refuse to work together.

Those court cases and link *are* about Jordan, not his father.

Ok Henry - Let's do that. Jordan needs to come clean about his Charleston County conviction and his problems paying his bills - all of that is public record. As a TAXPAYER - I would be very concerned about someone's history of not paying bills or ensuring that he is following the laws of our great state

Henry -- you need to know your facts. Giving a lower income or even middle class citizen a $2500 tax break does not allow them to send their child to private school- which costs $10,000 -$20,000/yr. All this does is give this tax break to the rich that are already sending their child to private school -- and the monies comes from the General Fund - your tax dollars. So the Voucher law proposed is an amazing transfer of money from the poor and middle class to the rich!

So by using our tax dollars to send them to private schools under charters - which means no legal protection for those kids or for their teachers - which means no conformity to minimum state guidelines - which means we'll be paying for our kids to be taught from textbooks that the Dept of Education already refused - somehow that's better? Go ask the folks in Minnesota - the one year they allowed charter funding, the private schools raised their tuitions by the same amount and rejected the kids from public schools.

Eagle's Nest is not free. According to District 2's own stats, it costs $6,500 a year to educate a child at their current spending - and they want even more.

And if the parents are like you and don't feel it's better, they won't take their child out of the public school -- which is their CHOICE and that's the entire purpose.

There is a need for great public education and fotunately, we have it in District 2. Unfortunately, despite spending more than DOUBLE per student, District 4 students do not have access to a great education. Money won't help them when they're spending about $15,000 per student. Giving the parent options is the only thing that will.

@Henry,
I am not going to pretend to be completely up to date on the current expenses of the school system, but didn't you say that if general assembly in an earlier post to Richard, "In addition, the School District would've still got 50% of their funding per pupil for the children that no longer attended public schools. So they would've got an increase based in per pupil funding." That still means that parents would have paid both the taxes and the cost of the education.
I am all for choice - but like you, I am not sure we should have to pay for people's choices. I am sure your against the taxpayers for paying for abortions. I have read other posts you have written in which you are critical of Obamacare and I could go on and on. Look, people do have the right to choose. I am sure Cathedral Academy has scholarship programs. Again, what does this have to do with someone who can't pay his bills or follow the law. Please tell the Republican Party that they must have at least one upstanding public servent in this district - and then it would be a great time to have the school voucher debate.

Actually, Henry, DD4 per pupil spending is $11,387 in comparison to DD2's $7,799. Another error I see you're making is failure to recognize what's used to calculate those numbers. New text books for a school in DD4, replacement of a broken a/c unit in a DD4 school, even a new cafeteria oven ....and annual payment for school construction, too - all of those expenses are added up and then divided by the total number of students in those particular schools. They can change year-in and year-out. The advantage that DD2 had in recent years was its eligibility for Recovery Act grants that don't need repaying - it got just under $20 million to help accommodate its needs from population growth; DD4 got under $1 million. That's another reason for the disparity between the two. Of course, rural area schools ALWAYS have higher per-pupil expenses....

My understanding is that the half of the district you refer to lives no where near Ashley Phosphate Road where Cathedral Academy is located. Again, I fear that you are trying to dilute the argument that the pundit that the Republican Party is lauding as not a member of the good 'ole boy school certainly seems to act that way by not paying his bills and not following the law

Demographics aren't relevant to a geographic subject, Henry. This is a mapping subject - Only four DD2 schools are in District 97 (two elementary and two middle schools). And over 70 percent of the population in 97 are are in DD4.

How Howard Rich's SCRG Foundation plays around with the numbers: http://www.reportcardplease.net/StopHowRich02.html
Two sites covering Rich's funky campaign donations to SC elections (about half a million every election year):
http://buyingsc.blogspot.com/ (You'll see how much Mike Rose got - and how it sends it all on the same day just a couple of weeks before the election; that way, the public won't be able to know about it, since those donations from October don't have to be reported until after the election.)
http://stophowardrichsc.blogspot.com/
You'll see on the last one how he gave Annette Young $5,000, then gave the same amount to Chris Murphy after Young stepped down.
Four pages of company names Howard Rich uses in his donations (so he can try to avoid the maximum donation amounts in our state): http://www.followthemoney.org/database/search.phtml?searchbox=Howard+Rich

He's out to get our money to go to his friends, that's for sure. So that his private school friends can take public education dollars - that our children won't have the same legal protection they have in public schools - that students can even be denied entrance to those private schools - that students who do get accepted won't have to be included in the same classes as other students in those private schools - that our students can be taught fraudulent material that gets no oversight - that our teachers won't have the same legal representation they have in public schools.

And he does that by skipping over laws in the process, too (the max $1,000 donations to campaigns for state legislature and $3500 for statewide offices).

@SDR: "yep, he's out to get us."

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yep he's out to make fools of the 99% to further his and the riches of the 1%...ditto the kochs and their ilk...

as said, the public needs to be informed...but not by fox/limbo and msnbc...but by the facts...we should not...can NOT...be used by the koch bros, h.rich, and their ilk to satisfy their egoistical greed with utter disregard for the common good.

sad many of the 99% think they are part of the 1%, or that the 1% gives a damn re them or the welfare of the biblical least...

koch/rich/ilk believe (and have sold a bill of goods to some/many of the 99) all should pull themselves up by their bootstraps as the ilk did...in reality most ilk-ers inherited their wealth.

BTW the least dont have boots...much less boot straps.

if kochs/h.rich/ilk had had their way there would be NO social security! NO medicare! NO civil rights!