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Post by conservative on Nov 17, 2013 11:54:32 GMT -5
Will you predict (guess) who the parties involved in the suit are?
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Post by geraldgarrett on Nov 17, 2013 12:14:00 GMT -5
Conservative, the lawsuit is filed under "Matt Ward v. City of Pickens, et al."
The "City of Pickens" would automatically include City Council, the Mayor, and the chief administrative official - in this case, the Town Clerk (the de facto administrator.)
Without seeing the lawsuit itself, I cannot say what the "et al" is. There may be specifically names of those individuals who had involvement beyond their duties as elected and appointed officials. There's where I'd be guessing. If I were to guess, I'd say the Mayor, the Town Clerk, one or more members of City Council and a former Police Chief may be specifically named for their individual actions. But that is just speculation on my part, so please don't take it as fact until somebody confirms it.
The sad thing to me is that private citizens like us are left to figure out who's being sued for what. The local media - whose job it is to be a watchdog for the rest of us - has become so afraid of losing advertisers and influence that they've walked away from that role in recent years. For all I know, they may have already exposed this, but I don't even try to rely on them anymore.
It's been said that you can start your day with an English muffin and a full read of the local newspaper, and you'll still go to work hungry and totally unaware of any meaningful local happenings. That's never been truer than today, although with my diminished appetite that comes with age, I can get by with an English muffin.
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Post by bigbrother2011 on Nov 23, 2013 10:53:48 GMT -5
Gerald, just hand them a copy of the F.O.I. and that is all you need. (Of course you know that)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 16:55:46 GMT -5
Can any one confirm if the city council has passed a rule that states to rent on main street you must be offering a product for sale? I heard this was to keep more lawyers from coming and BHS from growing more.
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Post by jimmy davis on Dec 3, 2013 5:58:07 GMT -5
I can not confirm if there has been a rule passed on that or not but I spoke to a guy who was going to rent a building and he stated he was told he had to have a product for sale downstairs per the city and that it was being used to keep the lawyers out or make them go upstairs in the buildings
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2013 9:51:17 GMT -5
So if you own a building on main street, the city tells you who you can rent to? The building owner and the city are partners, but the owner pays all the bills.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2013 15:50:43 GMT -5
/// Good luck Donnie! Gald to see your swearing in////
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Post by slimpickens on Dec 4, 2013 17:58:34 GMT -5
If any council members read this site, I would like to make a complaint. I have raked leaves each week for the past 3 weeks and all 3 weeks are still on the side of the street. I know we had Thanksgiving holidays but 3 weeks seems a little long. They used to get them every week. I am sure our street is not the only one.
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Post by bigbrother2011 on Dec 4, 2013 18:17:11 GMT -5
Sorry slim, but you will have to wait til greenville gets time to come over here and get them. you know we are a subdivision of greenville now dontcha?
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Post by jimmy davis on Dec 4, 2013 20:47:40 GMT -5
slim our sanitation dept has gone down hill to the dogs ,thanks to our fine administration ,the city wants to let this administrator spend money on stuff we can do without until other problems are fixed ,,,,the guys that work in the sanatition dept cant do any more than the city gives them the manpower to do so our taxpayers suffer as or city workers do also.
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Post by conservative on Dec 14, 2013 18:49:32 GMT -5
Pickensn...."Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Rights given from God; Inalienable. Government makes the mistake when it assumes it can broker, rather than protect, these rights for a greater good. In America, our choices are limitless and taxes constrained. Government (in general) would like to reverse that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2013 9:11:47 GMT -5
I can not confirm if there has been a rule passed on that or not but I spoke to a guy who was going to rent a building and he stated he was told he had to have a product for sale downstairs per the city and that it was being used to keep the lawyers out or make them go upstairs in the buildings Maybe this is why the vacant buildings are starting to add up, I mean if you have to sell a product in the downstairs that cuts off half the renters you may find so they may think they are helping the main street area but they could turn it into a ghost town and so much for freedom, the government gives that to you if they choose too.
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Post by jimmy davis on Dec 28, 2013 8:14:03 GMT -5
The only way business will come to the city is if they get business friendly which they aren't ,this administrator which everyone bows to is for the most part ruining the city and the council is allowing it that's whats sad,shes doing nothing but padding her resume and could care less about the citizens of the city
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Post by bigbrother2011 on Jan 16, 2014 9:59:18 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 20:53:42 GMT -5
What happened to the owner of the Bantam Chef....
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Post by verum on Jan 19, 2014 11:44:47 GMT -5
Pickensnative, don't leave us hanging. What did that worthless excuse for an Administrator and the Lying Mayor do now???
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Post by conservative on Jan 19, 2014 17:51:51 GMT -5
Pickensnative,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood the roadwork around the Bantam Chef was 100% planned and implement without the City's input or responsibility by the State DOT. Has the owner provided other info? I would figure the property lines and easements were either enforced or negotiated. If the City was involved without helping to defend the Owners rights, it would be terrible considering how long the business has been there.
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Post by geraldgarrett on Jan 21, 2014 3:03:13 GMT -5
I think you're probably right, Conservative. The City of Pickens may have had some limited input into some of the decisions, but it's the SCDOT running the show regarding traffic patterns related to state highways.
It's also right that the owner of that Bantam Chef should get some compensation for his losses.
Mostly, though, I'm intrigued by Pickensnative's allegation of "kickbacks."
That's a very specific allegation that has serious legal ramifications for anyone engaged in such activity.
The problem with the allegation, though, it is just doesn't make any sense whatsoever, either at the City, County or State level.
Who would have benefited from ruining a local business to the extent that they would have offered money to do so? Who would have been in a position to make decisions harmful to that business owner in exchange for what amounts to a bribe?
Nobody. That's who. If anybody wants to allege "kickbacks" on the project, I'd like to see names. I'd like to see your evidence. I'd like to see legal charges filed.
We won't see that, though. Why? There's a 99.9999% probability that THERE WAS NO KICKBACK. That's not good enough for the conspiracy theorists, but it's good enough for most rational people.
I can play (and have played) dirty politics before. I'm not afraid to play again. But alleging a crime by public officials that didn't happen is a shot in the dark that missed wildly. Know what you're shooting at first. Then aim. Then try again.
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Post by jimmy davis on Jan 24, 2014 19:22:22 GMT -5
My understanding the state had to spend the money or loose it don't no why they picked Pickens but I was told it had been on the books for along time to do this and that some person designed it from behind a desk in Columbia and had never even set foot in Pickens to look at it ,and being in construction for many many years I no that does happen a lot ,it easy to look on paper and say hey man this will work and looks good when in real life situations it doesn't work at all
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Post by mountainhighway on Jan 24, 2014 21:34:19 GMT -5
It might just be me, but I don't understand the purpose of the construction project to begin with, much less the way it has been carried out. I've lived in Pickens my whole life and traveled W Jones to Jewel St then across 183 toward Greenville for work. The old intersection looked odd to some I'm sure, but IT WORKED. Traffic coming in and out of town in all directions MOVED. Even at its busiest with work commuters and school traffic, I don't know that I ever sat through more than 1 cycle of the red lights. Now, with only one entrance to the school being utilized for all traffic (other than buses) and the short street between the Bantam Chef and the church being closed, all traffic traveling 183 toward Greenville or 8 north of Pickens is relegated to the stop sign on Jewel Street. Good luck turning left. If your turning right, again good luck because you are waiting on the cars in front of you that are turning left. The realignment of 183 to run through the old Party Shop property, exactly how is that beneficial? Less sight distance to the stopped traffic inbound on 8 from Pumpkintown because of the grade. Sit in a tractor trailer turning left from 183 now with outbound traffic on 8 stopped at the stop line, the turn has to be made into 1 narrow lane. I see a huge waste of resources to make the traffic flow worse. The way the project was administered baffles me even more. The Bantam Chef situation is a cluster. Pour new sidewalks with wooden mailbox posts right in the middle? Lose a lane in both directions on Jewel Street? Jewel Street is a SC primary highway. I would like to know the benefits of the project and how it was sold as a priority. If I'm wrong and just can't see it, somebody please clue me in.
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