Worley and Prince Screw the Pooch While Horry Burns

Just when we thought there was finally some hope on the horizon for cleaning up the governmental abortion that is Horry County government, Councilmen Harold Worley and Paul Prince, “screwed the pooch,” and performed a public “suck-up” and “ass-kissing” of Horry County’s ineffective and incompetent administrator, Danny “Do Nothing” Knight, and in doing so derailed the chances of ending what many are calling “The Cluster F%#k in Conway.”

Thanks to these two morons, a critical opportunity to finally purge the nepotism, meddling, incompetence and corruption, which has so incessantly permeated Horry County government since Liz Gilland picked up the Chairman's gavel, was allowed to slip by at the last Horry County Council session.

While the rest of “The Boys” on Council sat with disgusted looks on their faces, these two schmucks “brown-nosed” Knight to the point they had to use snorkels to enable them to breathe.

While we expect “Pathetic” Paul to be clueless and to ramble incoherently on like a drunken sailor, we had hoped for more from Worley, especially after his handling of the casino boat issue.

Everyone not only hoped that Worley would support the removal of Danny Knight, upon whose watch all of the despicable goings on in Horry County government have occurred, but would actually be one of the leaders in Knight's long overdue removal.

Alas, the hopes of purging the rampant mismanagement and corruption from Horry County government were again dashed because of these two babbling and self-important ass-heads.

Legal Problems Threaten to Bankrupt Horry County

Currently, Horry County is in the process of defending close to 70 lawsuits, one of which relates to interference and lying by County staff resulting in the failure of the Cricket Cove development in Little River. The wronged developer is rightfully seeking damages in excess of $200 million dollars, and, according to area legal minds, the County will probably lose the case.

One prominent area attorney said, “The plaintiff’s counsel, Ken Moss, was a former attorney for Horry County, so he knows where all of the dirty laundry is stored, and how to air it. Combine that with the fact that Kenny always makes County Attorney, John Weaver, look like a legal retard, and I would expect that the County Treasurer will be stroking a gigantic check to the plaintiff in the very near future.”

A Federal racial harassment/discrimination lawsuit has been filed against the County’s Infrastructure and Regulation Division Director, Steve Gosnell – the same guy who was suspended from his job in 2003 for diddling with one of his employees.

Rumors of lawsuits against two other County Division heads are swirling all over the County. One is an extremely disgusting and highly volatile sexual harassment lawsuit, which, if the charges bear out should result in a subsequent criminal case, with prison time on the table.

The other potential cases involve County Administration Division head, Anne Wright, who one courthouse wag calls, “A bad hairdo escapee from the 1950’s, who I describe as being clueless in Conway.” Wright a.k.a. “The Dragon Lady” is unquestionably the County’s top meddler and disruptor.

“Anne is so mean, even Michael Vick and his posse are afraid to get into her kennel,” continued another laughing bystander.

She has harassed and driven off several talented department heads, and has other key staffers looking for the exit. Her latest sleaze involves her “without cause” firing of the hard working and conscientious director of the Horry County Museum, so that Wright can replace her with one of her own personal pals. Makes you wonder what kind of quid pro quo this nepotism will cost the County don't it?

How about our illustrious leader, Loony Liz Gilland’s ongoing legal peccadilloes?

According to the South Carolina Ethics Commission’s Case No. C2005-032, “On December 5, 2004 the State Ethics Commission issued a Decision and Order against Elizabeth D. Gilland, Chairperson of the Horry County council. It was further ordered, pursuant to Section 8-13-320 (14) (Supp. 2002), that a Judgment be entered against Respondent Elizabeth D. Gilland and that the Clerk of Court of the County in which Respondent Elizabeth D. Gilland was last known to reside enter the Order in its Judgment Rolls.” Since then two other ethics complaints have been filed against Gilland, and are under investigation. If both of the pending complaints are proven valid, Gilland could face a grand jury.

While Gilland’s principal co-conspirator on her ill advised, ill-fated and stupid westside airport terminal fiasco, best known as “Gilland’s Folly,” the Myrtle Beach Un News, continues to quash any negative publicity relating to the criminality involved in the airport malfeasance, a full blown FAA/DOT/FBI investigation - with rumored indictments of Gilland, Knight, Weaver, County airport czar, Bob Kemp and the FAA’s District Manager in Atlanta, Scott Seritt – steamrolls on.

Already there are two DOT Inspector General “Demands for Documents” relating to the ongoing investigation into the possibilities of falsifications, fraud and profiteering on the westside debacle sitting on Weaver's desk in Conway.

To add to the County’s mountain of airport related legal issues, a full audit team, dispatched from Seattle, WA by the United States Department of Transportation Inspector General, is expected to setup shop here next week.

One case in particular best illustrates precisely how ass backwards the County's priorities are.

The case involves the highly questionable firing of a volunteer fireman - only in Horry County can you fire a volunteer? The fireman is suing the county for a piddly sum amounting to less than $10,000, and wants to be reinstated. Obviously, this is a case that should be quickly settled without wasting any valuable time or County assets on it, but because Weaver's nemesis, Ken Moss, is the fireman's attorney, Weaver has stubbornly and stupidly sworn to personally fight this case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Those in attendance at the last County Council session are still buzzing about how Weaver made a complete ass out of himself over this nickel ‘n dime case.

One Council regular said, “Man you should've seen Weaver. He went absolutely berserk. His face was blood red, the veins were popping out of his neck, and he was spitting and sputtering like a ruptured boiler on an old steam locomotive. Apparently Kenny Moss really knows how to push Weaver's buttons, because John totally lost it, and really showed himself to the Council, media and the public as the arrogant, egotistical and vindictive SOB we all know him to be. Everyone’s still talking about his performance.”

So let's all thank Worley and Prince for their self-serving ignorance, and for being the clowns responsible for the continuation of “The Cluster F%#k in Conway.”

“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.” Bess Myerson

One more thing...

How in the Hell could County Councilman Marion Foxworth be so damn dirt dog stupid as to nominate that smart-assed stuffed suit Don Wiseman for reappointment to the County's important A-TAX Committee?

This is the bastard who organized and ran Myrtle Beach Forward, which is the group of big hoteliers that met secretly and then morphed into the Myrtle Beach Lodging Marketing Co-op, and created the slimy $1 and 1% add-ons, that Saint Bradly Dean, Frans Mustart, Woody Crosby and the rest of those scumbags at the Chamber of Comedy are illegally trying to screw out of the Chamber's unsuspecting membership.

To add insult to this disgusting nomination County Council unanimously approved Wiseman's reappointment. Talk about idiots putting the fox in the hen house - this is insane!

And so it goes on the Redneck Riviera!

Horry County Council: Will “The Boys” Keep Their Balls?

At tonight's Horry County Council meeting its not what’s on the agenda, but what Loony Liz and The Weasel have refused to put on the agenda, and what dead issues they are going to try and resurrect.

Again, Horry County Chairman, Liz Gilland, who has sworn a solemn oath to never allow the illegal gates on the County roads in Myrtle Trace to come down, has again refused to place the nefarious issue on Council’s agenda.

Gilland, who’s faltering political life depends upon the block vote she gets from Myrtle Trace, has even gone so far as to guarantee in a letter to Myrtle Trace homeowners that the illegal Myrtle Trace gates will not come down.

For months, Gilland, and her number one partner in crimes against the citizenry, John “The Weasel” Weaver, have refused to put their Myrtle Trace criminality on Council’s agenda. While they know that allowing any gates on public roads is illegal, these clowns refuse to accept that rules and laws apply to them.

Gilland and Weaver know that if the gates come before the right-thinkers on Council, “Gilland’s Gates” will be summarily removed. So sandbagging, misdirection, procrastination and arrogance are the dirty duo’s only options in their feeble attempt to delay yet another stinging defeat for yet another of their slimy backroom deals.

After what was another of Gilland and Weaver’s illegal escapades - when they illegally cancelled County Council sessions so that no County business would be conducted while the meddlesome Gilland was on vacation - the sane members of Council (Harold Worley, Marion Foxworth, Brent Schultz, Paul Prince, Carl Schwartzkoph, Kevin Hardee, Al Allen and Mike Ryan), who have been dubbed “The Boys,” called for a special County Council session on June 26th to keep Loony Liz’s self-serving edict, and Weaver’s legal incompetence, from causing Council to break South Carolina law.

At the June 26th session, which was boycotted by Gilland’s Three Stooges, James Frazier, Bob Grabowski and Howard Barnard, “The Boys” rightfully allowed other developers to proceed with their requests for additional private gates on County roads. Like “Gilland’s Gates” at Myrtle Trace, the proposed Waterford and Stonebridge gates will prevent the public from using County roads, and that is patently illegal.

To add to her bungling and misguided mismanagement, Gilland is trying to resurrect another one of her backroom deals. This one is with the shady casino boat operators.

She wants to allow these unregulated gaming operations to operate unfettered forever, while the current provisions, instituted by Councilman Worley, collect the appropriate fees and taxes, and, more importantly, allows the South Carolina Department of Revenue to shut these characters down if they fail to pay. Well done gentlemen!

While the Three Stooges will probably allow Mama Gilland to continue making them her bitches, hopefully, Mr. Worley and rest of The Boys will “Man Up, Stand Up” and “Shut Down” Gilland’s incessant “revisiting” BS and her constant dirty dealing.

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” James Bryant Conant

And so it goes on the Redneck Riviera!

Myrtle Beach Growth Summit Focuses on Continued Stupidity

On Friday, August 10, 2007, the local fish wrapper, the Myrtle Beach Sun News, along with the area’s higher education wannabe, Coastal Carolina Loonyversity of Shady Dealings, sponsored their 6th installment of their backwater snooze-fest, which they laughingly dubbed the Growth Summit.

This gathering of usual cheap-suited suspects was again held in the dirty, dingy and depressing bat cave they call the auditorium at Coastal’s Wall School of Graft & Corruption at 1:30 PM.

That’s right, these self-anointed “visionaries,” scheduled a meeting on a Friday afternoon on a busy summer weekend on gridlocked Highway 501. To add to the torture of anyone dumb enough to attend, these brain-dead rocket scientists brilliantly scheduled the adjournment of their hot-air chinwag to precisely coincide with the daily rush hour. Now, doesn’t that speak volumes about the “vision” of these morons?

One must remember that this is the same bunch of so-called business and community lemmings who for 12-years relied on that criminal lard-bucket, Al Parish, to advise their incompetent asses on our area's future. Now the same clan of dimwitted nabobs are relying on has-been motel manager and pompous windbag, Gary "The Freeloader" Loftus, for the same clueless "book-cooking" BS as the fat man in the red suit conjured up.

Now if all of the foregoing lunacy isn’t enough of this gang’s bungling for you, then how about this: Their lead speaker was a real estate consultant and right-wing political vagabond from Newport News, VA. Barry DuVal.

Note: The Myrtle Beach area is known to be queer for consultant’s named “Barry.” By the way, anybody seen our old pal Barry Landreth lately?

A former Mayor and Virginia Secretary of Commerce, DuVal came here to shill for the resurrection of the Gilland’s Airport Folly. That’s right, another backdoor hump by those sore losing cry babies at the Sun News as they continued their pathetic and obsessive fixation on pissing away $300 million dollars of the taxpayer's money on a Taj Mahal to governmental and the Sun News' self-serving arrogance.

While no one with an IQ over 25 supports their asinine obsession, these condescending twits won’t abandon their long-lost cause. Obviously, the “Fantasy Island Bug” (See CDC: Rare Brain Attacking Virus Found in Horry County posting of Monday, July 30, 2007 below) has devoured more of their pitiful little brains than we thought.

What’s more, the Un News touted DuVal as a regional cooperation guru, and cited his stint on the board of the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance as his shining credential in that area. The fact is, the HREDA, along with it’s other identities (Hampton Roads Partnership and Forward Hampton Roads) were all ill-conceived and ill-fated multi-million dollar co-op marketing efforts in Tidewater, Virginia that, while still in existence, bombed like a 2-ton turd in the Dunes Club swimming pool on the 4th of July.

Now, ain’t that the Summit of Stupidity?

“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.” Oscar Wilde

And so it goes on the Redneck Riviera!