There is no other explaination for their ignoring the arrest when it happened, and having continued to ignore it since that time — especially when they reported an incident involving Green the night before, where they could easilly twist the facts in a way that could reflect somewhat negatively on McBride and Howard.

The question is: What are they hiding about Green and Starboard Communications?

Given the fact that their rhetoric in their endorsement editorial repeated the bogus “fistfights” charge (there was only one phisical altercation, it was not a fistfight, and Wayne Gray was the attacker, not McBride), shows at least tacit agreement with, or willingness to let stand regardless of veracity, the untrue statment in the attack ads.

Just as not everything is a conspiracy, not every conspiracy is an overt one … most are tacit in nature, as is this conspiracy of convenience by like-minded entities to smear McBride and hide the truth about Rhodes and those who own him.

The “facts” as you present them in the case of Bea Catalano, are selective at best. There was no indication she was taking illegal drugs, and that was not what she was charged with.

There are also two other incidents I know about involving candidates for Mayor, that for various reasons have not been reported anywhere.

The odds of all this being a mere coincidence are slim to none.

I stand by my statement.

Also, he was outspent six to one, just by the Rhodes campaign. When you ad to that the enormous amount of money spent on Starboard Communication’s dishonest attack ads, etc., etc., by Pete Pierce’s Good Government For Myrtle Beach PAC, it may be that he was actually outspent more like twelve to one.

All that outlay of possibly dirty money, and Rhodes still only manage a rather meager victory. If McBride had been able to amass a comparable war chest, he would likely have soundly trounced Rhodes.

It doesn’t seem to me that McBride is washed up politically at all.

One of Rhodes’ deceptive ads stated “Myrtle Beach is on the rebound.” Sadly this is not the case with our once-great resort city. It may very well be that the genuine rebound is in the political career of Mark McBride.

Wow!

I’m assuming it is now in more competent hands?

That is far from being the case. In attendance at the rally where he trespassed and shoved the security guard were dozens of people who are lifelong residents and are highly respected in the community.

I’m fairly certain that I know the poster “Just a good ol boy” — and he is one of those individuals.

One other thing — this is, by know means a left-right or Democrat-Republican divide. Rhodes and the incumbents were mainly Republicans, but they have considerable support among Democrats as well. Likewise, those supporting McBride (a Republican) were a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and independents.

The vast majority of the Tea Party people on the Grand Stran are opposed to Rhodes on the issue of taxes. Though not all of them are Republican, a good many are. As you can well imagine, this has torn the party apart in the City of Myrtle Beach

It’s a matter of taxation without representation.

Sound famiar?

- Boz
“a.k.a. BuzzyB” on the Sun News forums and Comment threads.

As far as Rhodes himself breaking the law is concerned, he does so with impunity. He has been known to park in “No Parking” spaces for hours at the time without even getting a ticket. If this is supposed to be one of the perks of being Mayor, then it should be written as law. It is not.

- William Bozworth Martin

He was involved in a barrage of attack ads, on all media locally, an attack web site (therealmarkmcbride.com), a bogus “Mark McBride” Facebook page, impersonating McBride in FB Chats with political activists opposed to John Rhodes (to gather info and disperse disinformation) and some rather serious stalking behavior where McBride and his family are concerned.

He was hired to do this by Good Government For Myrtle Beach PAC, an arm of “The Committee”, a group of hoteliers and bankers who reportedly rule the city with an iron hand and use the MBPD (through City Manger Tom Leath) as their “enforcers”.

Harassment, intimidation, nuisance arrests and various types of shakedowns are common when you go against them. In addition to this type of thing happening to several ‘opposition” political activists, or the six individuals who vied for the post of Mayor, only two (McBride and McCarty) were not ticketed and/or arrested during this campaign cycle.

I ask you: What are the odds of this being mere coincidence?

Green stepped into some mess here. I sincerely hope that, when the pending federal investigation into what is known locally as “Chambergate” all comes down, it will severely impact his career for it to be known how zealously he has labored for the perps.

If nothing else, he should be shown for the clueless fool that he is. He was in MB long enough to know that the security guards at Broadway at the Beach don’t play. And he actually shoved one of them, in sight of several of them, only 20 years from their office.

It was a pure delight to see him sitting handcuffed in a chair in front of that office for an hour and 15 minutes, and then to see him finally hauled off by the cops.

What a total putz!

William Bozworth Martin,
Myrtle Beach native