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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Stop The Tax Hike Petition ...

Mobil Station in Six Mile
Grill at Spangler's Gas Station on Hwy 183
Durham's Gas Station on Hwy 183.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
District 4 House Rep Has Conflict Of Interest With His Printing Business
Monday, January 12, 2015
Can you afford an 8% tax increase?
The tax increase will also affect your residence.
8%
Could your family use an 8% raise this year?
The Pickens County School District Administration thinks they need your money more than you do.
There is an attempt to increase property taxes in Pickens County School District an additional 8%.
SOLUTION:
Go to www.conservativesoftheupstate.com to find out how you can sign a petition to stop the tax increase.
Contact your School Board members and tell them to do this:
#1 Stop spending money on wants and learn to follow a budget like the tax payers must do.
#2 Don't kick the can down the road; stop raiding the escrow account to pay down debt.
These are your ELECTED school board members you should contact to STOP THIS 8% TAX INCREASE:
Henry Wilson
(Call and tell him to vote NO tax increase.)
Dacusville/ Eastern Easley
Easley, SC 29640
(864) 643-8352
hwsc1@yahoo.com
Brian Swords
(Call and tell him to vote NO tax increase.)
Liberty/Western Easley
(864) 221-3642
bswords@tctc.edu
Phillip Bowers
(voting no to tax increase)
Six Mile/ Central
(864) 868-2789
bowers_p@bellsouth.net
Alex Saitta
(voting no to tax increase)
Pickens
(864) 878-1961
alexsaitta@pickens.k12.sc.us
Judy Edwards
(Call and tell her to vote NO tax increase.)
Easley
(864) 859-7338
randjedwards@aol.com
Herbert Cooper
(Call and tell him to vote NO tax increase.)
Clemson
(864) 654-1517
No email address
$11,600 is the school DEBT each house owes thanks to our Pickens County School District board.
"In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education – that's a false choice."
~ Gov. Scott Walker
The school district is trying to raise property taxes at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. The final vote should take place by March 23, 2015.
The district administration is saying there is a financial crisis, so it either has to raise taxes or cut teachers or close schools. They are trying to create the impression there is a financial crisis, when there isn't one.
Since 2007 there has been a 37% tax increase in the Pickens County School District with no increase in number of student enrollment.
The School District of Pickens County Wants More of Your Money.
Don't Fall for Scare Tactics!
It's Not a Crisis!
Their Wants and Mismanagement of your Money Does Not Constitute a Crisis!
Be there, be heard, don’t be plundered!
January 26, 2015
February 23,2015
March 23, 2015
SDPC District Office
1348 Griffin Mill Road
Easley, SC 29640
Friday, January 9, 2015
Conservatives Of The Upstate Makes Impact @ 2015 Delegation Meeting
A. They have gotten us in a lease purchase agreement far beyond our means - Over $400 million.
B. They do not abide by the 8% law. They recently told the public that they would refinance a debt that did not belong to them as you can see from the handout that is before you.
C. They violate their oath of office in that they do not preserve, protect, and defend the constitutions of the state and federal government. They subvert the constitution by spending interest on money they do not own ($55,000,000). They have added projects that were not part of the original lease agreement. They are currently asking for more money in order to buy such items as roofs on a 12 1/2 year wear out basis. Even Lowes guarantees 20 years on their worst roofing, 30 years on some of the best. Not a single member of the Board has gone to look at maintenance problems at the schools; neglecting their own committee's meetings. They are asking for hundreds of thousands for grass mowers. Where are the booster clubs? Millions for other technical projects that funded by the State and will be obsolete before they are used two years. There is a myriad of other reasons that this meeting will not allow because of time restraints.
D. They subverted the constitution when they voted recently to spend $13,000,000 without authority on various projects using money that did not belong to them and disenfranchised the voters in the Liberty District as Ben Trotter had resigned that same night. The same night they voted without any authority to spend $3,000,000 out of a "contingency" fund that was actually money that had been over-collected from the taxpayers by using a wrong percentage of collectibility.
2. The State of SC is responsible for education, but has shoveled it down to the counties, and yet wants to maintain control. The State has put in 50/0 in sales taxes for education over the years: Selling it to the people "for the children". The revenue goes into the "General Fund" and is spent on a conglomeration of things other than our children. Yet the Governor has so much money that she wants to do away with the income tax.
A. Funding is sent down to the districts as line items and many times the whole plan is not funded by the State. A good example is K4 kindergarten in which the buildings and other things are not funded and yet Clarendon county is fully funded.
B. Most all our buildings are funded by the county and the treasurers' office has the repay accounts set up wrong as the revenue bonds and the general Obligation bonds revenue are mixed. The school board should not have any control over the revenue bonds. The school board uses the revenue indiscriminately when they should be issuing payments to SCAGO as lease payments and SeAGO should be paying the brokers who have sold the bonds. The State should be making all the payments as operating expense as they are in 6 other districts.
3. The School Board has sold mortgaged SeAGO properties. The money from the sale should have gone to SeAGO to reduce payments on the lease agreement, but has been used for whatever the Board wanted extra.
4. All operating expense such as teachers salaries should be set and paid for by the State. Pickens is a poor county and cannot afford to pay what Greenville pays. Counties should not have a say on salaries because it creates a problem between the counties and Pickens cannot compete with Greenville without causing a major problem for many taxpayers.
5.Closed primaries are wanted and demanded.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
2015 Pickens County Delegation Meeting ...
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 @ 5:30PM
CARR CONFERENCE CENTER
WEST END HALL
201 SOUTH 5TH STREET
EASLEY, SC 29640
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Jarrett had a career high 3.5 tackles for loss in his 48th and final game in the 40-6 thumping of Oklahoma. He also was voted as one of the football team's permanent captains for 2014.
He posted the following to his Instagram account on why he worked so hard during his time at Clemson.