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A loyal reader snapped a picture of the “spending clock” outside Gov. Mark Sanford’s office in the Statehouse and sent me the above photo, which had me wondering. Sanford unveiled the idea back in April in an attempt to remind the legislature, on a daily basis, that he hates them.
But computers aren’t free. And neither is tabulating all that data and keeping a running ticker.
So who is paying for the spending clock? Is it we the taxpayers or one of Sanford’s shady “reform” groups? And how much are we/they paying for this nice little clock that almost nobody in the general public uses or even knows exists?
Assuming this is a taxpayer-funded expense, then why is “Mr. Anti-Pork” Sanford engaging in such a flagrant misuse of funds? And if this was done through one of the reform groups, how many government grants did they receive?
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Just remember…what Mark Sanford says, and what he does, is completly different.
Our terrible, lazy, slow minded press allows that man to get away with soooo much. Thinking people are thankful for the blogs…they are the only way for information to pass from Columbia to the people.
Thanks for your efforts, Mr. Scooper. Keep hitting some of these issues and maybe the truth will out. The one thing we know for sure is that the mainstream press will never ask Mark Sanford the hard questions about his secret, shady groups . Without your help those “nonprofits” will continue to hide millions of dollars in money given to the Governor (for “services rendered”?) by rich out of state fat cats.
Why not send in a donation to cover costs, and get back to the purpose of the clock?
The cost of a Windows PC sufficient to power a clock program, plus cabinet might run $500. They really aren’t that expensive. In fact, sometimes computers are free when you get a slow pig of a machine that was on the chopping block to be tossed and repurpose it for something like this.
Like all spending/debt clocks, no doubt there’s a mathematical formula used that mechanically translates 1 second to $x and adds it to the running total. This is something a talented intern can code up.
I have no idea how it was done and there are certainly more expensive ways to do it but it is not self-evident that this was a waste of any money.