Oh yeah, you should listen to the recordings my partner made, our boy
was trash-talking everyone all up and down the state food chain as well
as his Council colleagues, even his daddy, It was just too delicious.
Here's some quotes we transcribed.
So this first guy is the President of the State Senate, controls
everything, including all the money. Has more power than the governor.
Last December at a Transportation Bank meeting the boy had to bow and
scrape and "apologize" about his "unfortunate remarks." Ol' Hugh wasn't
buying it and worked him over pretty good to where he was up there
sputtering and blathering. 2 days after the article appeared with the
recordings, this guy AND the governor, unsolicited, call up the
newspaper reporter to make comments, which she then wrote in another
lengthy article. These two have never even returned her calls for
comment on stuff, then they are calling her. It was amazing.
Hugh Leatherman:
He’s a tyrant. It’s his state. It’s his money. If you don’t believe me,
ask him.
The governor’s not the problem. She is fine. As a matter fact, she's on
record to be against the completion of I-526. She’s fine. But the
problem is we don’t live a state where the governor really has that much
stroke. I mean, she can goad them into it, make them look bad, but you
can’t make Hugh Leatherman look any worse than he already is.
Because Hugh Leatherman and them won’t to do their job.
Leatherman’s the king of the world. You can’t do nothing through him.
I’ve got another baby coming, I’ve got five kids, I need to concentrate
on my family for awhile. And oh by the way, I’m probably going to run
for governor so I can try to do something to his ass.
The hell with him.
He wants the money too! He wants the money too. He is a greedy, greedy
being.
Leatherman says [mimics], “Mr. Chairman, you come up with your money and
I’ll come up with mine.”
[Elliott also tells a story about how he saw Leatherman in his bathing
suit and it made him want to “go puke.” Let me know if you need that.]
Well, you know, if we could get a coalition of senators that could slow
down Leatherman on some other things and say, listen, I mean, I hate to
say extort it out of him, but I mean we gotta have some money to place
some leverage on him. The problem with Hugh has always been, even when
you get a guy like Grooms who from a philosophical standpoint wouldn’t
normally be okay with this, with 526 and that kind of thing, you know,
Hugh will jerk all the money out of Moncks Corner, you know. And a
little town like Moncks Corner cannot survive without the stuff that
Larry gets them. I mean, and how do you go back to your folks and go,
“Hey man, I’ve got a philosophical problem with that guy over there,
with the problem in Charleston, and that’s why you didn’t get anything.”
You’d get unelected pretty quick.
Hugh buys them. I mean, if you think about the guys that put Hugh in the
president pro tempore, its the same guys who put McConnell in. It's the
democrats. The black caucus.
Another legislator who is a dumb*ss too: Chip Limehouse:
And once we’ve got the legislators out of the Aviation Authority, it's
running pretty good again. You know. I hate to be that way, but it's
true. You put a Limehouse in there and, poof, it goes to hell. He’s
never seen a buffet he didn't like.
A black Council colleague, so this got the black folks upset: Anna
Johnson:
And Anna doesn't understand
I know, Bo. Listen, I get it. Listen, you know, listen, the hour before
the Chairman's vote in January, she called me and said, "I’m not voting
for you." I said, "Okay." She said, "I’m going to nominate and vote for
myself." I said, "Go right ahead." There’s no love affair with me and
Anna Johnson. We don’t love each other. They tolerate me. They have to.
Because, no – that would sound terrible
She's ignorant. And I can't deal with that. I just can't. I don't deal
with that with my own children. It's like, dealing with a 5 year old.
I'm like wake up. Why are you here? If you can't understand, then don't
be here. Shut up.
Thomas, the reason why she wins is because the district is drawn as an
African-American district. Listen, I'd rather have. She couldn't tie C's
boots, man.
They [African-Americans] gonna pull the master lever, Bo. That's just...
It's unfortunate.
2 other Council colleagues:
This one took his position as Council Chairman: Vic Rawl:
I think he eats too much. I don't know what to say. I think that's gonna
be a problem if you eat too much.… kind of out to never-never land.
This one works for Daddy (it's all very incestuous around here): Teddie:
And I think that’s a shame, and it’s hypocritical for people like
Teddie, who, no offense, work for my daddy. It’s not right, that’s not
right. He’s being a hypocrite, and I’ve told him that.
And Teddie's too far up my daddy's tail to really know what's going on
--FT
On 2/14/17 4:33 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
You should have seen the texts that were recovered, especially the ones between
he and his minion. They were littered with profanities and all sorts of
nastiness towards elected officials that are working on eliminating this
commission. A number of them were printed in the local media with the naughty
stuff redacted.
There’s a state legislator who has been trying to eliminate the PTC for a couple of
years, and for good reason. The comment that she could go fornicate with herself
among other things was a classic that got into the local media. The best part was
when she was asked about it by the local media. To give you an idea of how classy
she was, she said, "It's not surprising at all. The agency and its management
does continue to disappoint on a seemingly daily basis.”
<rim shot>
I found some of the texts they published between the commissioner (Cockream)
and his minion:
• A text message between Brett Saunders and Kyle Cockream sent at 11:03
a.m. on November 9 said: “That ****head Patterson is here. I recommend you go
out the back.”
• A text message between Brett Saunders and Kyle Cockream sent at 10:30
a.m. on October 16 said: “Tell victor to kiss your ass. You work for the board.
Not him. We only used them on those few occasions and it fell apart with their
cards. Candidly. Louie’s people were scared.
• A text message between Brett Saunders and Kyle Cockream sent at 10:34
a.m. on October 16 said: “And. Don’t resign. Make them fire you. Then you get
unemployment. And before they fire you. Fire me so I can get it too. Oh with a
90 day severance package.”
• A text message between Brett Saunders and Kyle Cockream sent at 10:39
a.m. on October 16 said: “I hear you. But on my way out I’ve decided to burn
the house down.
• "There was no quid pro quo. We didn't hide anything. We used volunteers to
help us. F--- her too," Saunders wrote.
Do be aware that the previous PTC commissioner went to prison for accepting
bribes, so this is nothing new. It’s just more entertaining. Both of these
idiots have resigned, of course, but that’s not going to get their ‘nads out of
the grinder of the state and Federal courts. I suspect both will be wards of
the state eventually and getting their dance cards punched nightly.
-D
On Feb 14, 2017, at 4:18 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
Wow. "With a criminal investigation hanging over him, former Public
Transportation Commission chief Kyle Cockream repeatedly pleaded the
Fifth.."
It speaks for itself.
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Max
Charleston SC
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Winston Churchill:
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or
petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the
enemy.”
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