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Showing posts with label Ken Ard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Ard. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2012

Ard Indicted on 7 Counts; Case Focuses on 'Fictitious or Bogus Campaign Contributions'

By Tim Smith and David Dykes

Lt. Governor Ken Ard presided over the SC Senate for the last time yesterday.
A state grand jury indicted former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard on seven counts of violating the State Ethics Act, Attorney General Alan Wilson today.

Ard, who had been the subject of a state grand jury probe into his campaign finances since last year, submitted his resignation this morning. All seven counts are misdemeanors, Wilson said.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

SC Lt. Governor Strikes Plea Deal, Resignation Imminent

One corrupt state official down, at least one to go

South Carolina Lt. Governor Ken Ard

S.C. Lt. Governor Ken Ard (RINO-Pamplico) has reached a plea agreement with the Attorney General’s office relating to an ongoing criminal probe of his campaign finance problems – a deal that will result in the state’s second-highest ranking official resigning his office within the next 48 hours.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Ken Ard Calls Rudy Giuliani a Conservative ... Really!


Here is Lt. Governor candidate Ken Ard claiming that Rudy Giuliani -- the pro-partial birth abortion, pro-tax funded abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control former Mayor of New York, whose budgets funded abortions while he made his city a sanctuary for illegal immigrants and sued the federal government to end the line item veto so New York could get an earmark -- was "the most fiscally conservative candidate the Republican Party had in 2008."

Is it any wonder that South Carolina's RINO legislators support Ard?