Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
So Damn Pissed
Oh, South Carolina Democratic Party why do I still love you even though you disappoint me?
You tease me with a wonderful, well qualified candidates like Elizabeth Colbert Busch and then you yank the rug out from under me and once again we all lose. I am still devoted to you but we can’t go on like this. We have to do better, work harder, and convince candidates like Elizabeth to run again. We can do it South Carolina Democratic Party, I know we can turn this state around if we all work together. I’m not giving up on us, I’m just so damn pissed right now I can’t see straight.
How could the voters in the 1st Congressional District re-elect that pompous, entitled, selfish ass hole and fail to support a fresh face like Elizabeth Colbert Busch?
We’ve suffered these disappointments before, most notably in SC District 2 when Democrat Rob Miller took on Joe “You Lie” Wilson. Miller was a military veteran who was smart and well spoken but he fell to the moron incumbent because apparently as long as letters GOP appear by your name on a ballot you can get elected and relected. It’s shameful but no longer surprising to me. I should be used to this pain by now but I just can’t lay down and let it wash over me without a fight.
Roxanne Walker
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The no-new-taxes environment
South Carolina’s Transportation Secretary Robert St. Onge Jr. said this week that the state needs $29.3 billion dollars over 20 years to bring roads into good condition. The Greenville News reports that St. Onge is finding it difficult to fix the roads because of the “no-new-taxes environment.” Instead St. Onge finds himself, “carefully managing the decline of the state highway system.” That means “no collapsed bridges, take the worst congestion and fix it, maintain the freight network.” The lack of new or increased tax revenue means “you’re going to have to take from something else and put it on your road system, and that’s tough,” St. Onge told a group in Mauldin earlier this week.
Getting Away With Murder
Everything that’s wrong with South Carolina is written in today’s Greenville News. The front page headline “Sterling Granted Parole” was a stunner. Jack Sterling, former HomeGold board chairman, served less than one year of a five-year prison sentence for securities fraud. I guess it speaks to my eternal optimism that this news came as a shock to me. I honestly believed Sterling didn’t have a chance in hell at parole after less than a year. The conviction itself took years to achieve and then after a slap on the wrist, just time enough behind bars for Sterling to tutor his fellow inmates, curry favor with influential friends and get religion and now it’s over.