“In 1998, that letter went out not as a generalized mailer, but to my friends with a self-addressed envelope, looking for a donation to my campaign. Every four years, this letter went out to friends. After this last election in 2014, the hyphenated fella [Charleston County Democratic Party Chair Brady Quirk-Garvan], he decided that this was a terrible violation of the ethics law that this letter that had been going out for the past 17 years had an office number on it.”
— Charleston County Register of Mesne Conveyance Charlie Lybrand, who was formally charged by the State Ethics Commission for violating state law by using “government personnel or facilities for campaign purposes.” The complaint by Quirk-Garvan, Lybrand says, is sour grapes following a Democratic loss in 2014. But Quirk-Garvan replied, “It’s not oversight when ethical issues come up multiple times. I think this is just a guy who got used to being in office and figured everything was his.” More.
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