Sep 25 2007
Common Cause Wants Ravenel to Reimburse State
Former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel should reimburse the state for a special legislative session held last month to elect his successor, says Common Cause of South Carolina, a nonprofit government watchdog group.
In a letter Thursday to the U.S. Probation Office, Common Cause executive director John Crangle said the total mileage and per-diem cost for the session was $28,676.
I don’t really have an issue with that. The runs and gets elected to be our State Treasurer and then gets himself impeached from office for dealing drugs costing the state to hold a special legislative session to appoint a new treasurer at taxpayer expense. Their request sounds reasonable to me.
