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Let’s see if this helps since nothing else has. I did enjoy the article on South Carolina corruption as I know it is worse than even you say, and I place Aiken County at the top of the list. Here is the latest. Judge Tracy Carroll is an Aiken county Magistrate. Aiken County has contracted with the City of Aiken for Carroll to be their Municipal Judge. At least one day a week and sometimes two or three, Judge Carroll leaves her magistrates office, for which she is paid by the county for a 40 hour week, and goes to the city to be their judge. The city then pays the county over $4000.00 per month for the services of Judge Carroll. The Aiken county treasure simply endorses the check and gives it to Judge Carroll. The judges is paid over $80K a year as the magistrate and then another $36K or so from the city. This is in direct violation of Graves v. County of Marion, 552 S.E.2d 709 (S.C. 2001) 346 S.C. 472, wher our Supreme Court said this could not happen. The court has been notified of this, and Aiken County is still paying her regardless of what the law says. This magistrate is making more than the circuit court judges and no one will do anything. So goes Aiken
Secession petitions are good PR but bad politics. There is a way for states to legally and politically secede from the American union but it must be a state-by-state process established by constitutional secession conventions in each state. Read: http://thedailybell.com/28286/Ron-Holland-Secession-Petitions-Good-PR-But-Bad-Politics