Post by Logan on Mar 18, 2016 18:46:36 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — Senate Judiciary Committee Larry Martin of Pickens says a group’s campaign against a pending ethics bill has gone too far.
Martin told the Senate Thursday that the same group and tactics used to defeat any increase in the gas tax are being used by the group to attack a pending ethics bill dealing with income disclosure by lawmakers and who would investigate ethics complaints against them.
The bill is the latest version of ethics reform, an issue that Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP legislative leaders say they want enacted but which has failed to pass in years of attempts.
Martin took to the floor Thursday and said the group is putting out misinformation, which he called a “smear” campaign against him and against the ethics bill.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/17/upstate-senator-complains-groups-ethics-bill-campaign/81913110/
Martin told the Senate Thursday that the same group and tactics used to defeat any increase in the gas tax are being used by the group to attack a pending ethics bill dealing with income disclosure by lawmakers and who would investigate ethics complaints against them.
The bill is the latest version of ethics reform, an issue that Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP legislative leaders say they want enacted but which has failed to pass in years of attempts.
Martin took to the floor Thursday and said the group is putting out misinformation, which he called a “smear” campaign against him and against the ethics bill.
Read more: www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/17/upstate-senator-complains-groups-ethics-bill-campaign/81913110/