Nikki Setzler - a political whore - ran "unopposed"

UPDATE 2/26/2019 - The so-called Freedom Action Network (FAN) of South Carolina refused to publish my submitted post on their Facebook page warning South Carolinians that a time limit has been placed on wills. Maybe FAN has bosses in the South Carolina legislature that won't allow 'em to spread the word.

Ain't it a cryin' dirty shame when a self-serving little jerk like Nikki Setzler - a sell-out to his own selfish interests and those of crooked corporations like SCE&G and SCANA - can attend church a few times and wind up running "unopposed"? Any well-informed person with a brain is opposed to Setzler. Trouble is, the electoral system doesn't function for anyone but political whores, in bed with crooked corporations, and/or looking out for their own selfish interests. Nikki Setzler epitomizes what's wrong in American politics. He's a con artist par excellence, and his success in politics is attributable only to the utter, mind-numbing stupidity of the South Carolina public.

Don't be fooled: It's not that Setzler has done such a great job of serving the public that he ran "unopposed." The little jerk has been backstabbing South Carolinians for decades - his latest claim to fame being a proud co-sponsor of the bill that ushered in the nuclear power scandal. The crux of his running "unopposed" is likely revealed in a rumor that Lord Nikki - a career politician - has accumulated a campaign war-chest of seven million dollars, enough to buy a slew of slick political ads aimed at a gullible-beyond-belief S.C. public

If voting was what it's cracked up to be, we wouldn't have a pervasively corrupt legislature, the nuclear power scandal, or the probate racket. It all boils down to a South Carolina public, brainwashed by corporate-financed political ads broadcast by presstitute mainstream media such as WIS-10.

Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed that once again we had election time, and not one word was broadcast by local media about the probate racket. Meanwhile, candidates "know better" than to bring the issue up for fear of offending the state's well-entrenched mafia, er I mean legislature, then getting no cooperation from the gang of influential attorneys like Setzler if a candidate gets elected.

It's always a thigh-slappin' hoot when the exceptionally well-paid Ashley Landess and her side-kick Kevin Cohen (or is it the other way around?) berate people for not contacting their elected representatives. This blog documents what happens when anyone dares to ask the little self-serving jerks for help, and it wuzza howling hoot when someone called in to the Kev and Ashley Show saying he contacted his representative and got ignored.

I initially tried the "nice guy" approach with Setzler and got no response until immediately after I picketed in front of his probate-dealing law firm. I wish the guy at least had enough guts to track me down and take a swing at me, but of course that's not the way political whores operate. They prefer to do dirt to people behind people's backs, and if anyone dares to complain, just wear the person down and into submission by delay tactics and stonewalling. Setzler won't even reply to my e-mails, and I'm not about to beg the little jerk to do the right thing. Poor Nikki. This is probably the first time in his sorry political life that anyone has dared to expose his repulsive behavior, put it in proper context, and demand that the little twerp serve the public's interest instead of his own.

I have news for Political Whore Setzler whose contempt for family values is coming through loud and clear: I'm in no bigger rush to settle this matter than he is. In fact, it just does my soul good - kinda has a cleansing effect - to stand in front of a sleazy, probate-dealing law firm and expose not only South Carolina's probate racket, but also the true character of a deceitful, over-rated, self-serving slob like Nikki Setzler. If he had anything even remotely resembling normal sensibilities - if he was anything other than a thick-skulled moron - he'd be ashamed of his behavior toward people who have lost loved ones. Ditto for each and every member of the General Assembly.

This year (2018), a number of unexpected events most certainly delayed my activities in response to the probate racket. Nonetheless, I can assure all concerned that I'm not the least bit deterred in my determination to expose the lack of fundamental fairness in the probate system for South Carolinians who are struggling through the process of bereavement, a process which, by all accounts, poses one of life's most profound challenges. Really, folks: What kind of "human" would secretly connive - in the name of greed - to make such a process even more difficult? Making the probate process more complex and placing time limits on wills, much less keeping the time limits quiet, is not in the public's best interest and everyone - including Political Whore Setzler - knows it. The little creep is just too deceitful to admit it.

If South Carolinians are dumb enough to be made fools of by self-serving slobs like Nikki Setzler, so be it.

Update 11/8/2018 - Directed people to this blog for two hours yesterday, standing in front of  the Williams, Stitely, and Brink law firm across from the Lexington probate court. Another GREAT response - MANY thanks to everyone who visited this blog and to those who signaled support.

Update 11/21/2018 - Protested in front of Setzler's law firm yesterday for about 15 minutes.

Update 11/19/2018 - Sent a link to this post to all S.C. legislators.

Update 11/26/2018 - Early afternoon on 11/21/2018, stood at the intersection of Leaphart Rd. and Hwy 1 for an hour directing people to this blog. Superb response, probably a record number of blog visits for an hour's effort and visits continue to increase. Many thanks to all who visited, special thanks to all who signaled support. 

Update 12/4/2018 - Yesterday around noon, picketed in front of the Setzler and Scott law firm for 45 minutes. Traffic seems to have increased along Hwy 1, making for very good exposure. Then it was back to the intersection of Leaphart Rd. and Hwy 1 for 45 more minutes. Another great response - thanks to everyone who visited this blog.

Update 12/18/2018 - Yesterday brought another round of picketing - an hour's worth - in front of the Setzler and Scott law firm. Thanks to everyone who visited this blog and to those who signaled support. Paul Craig Roberts has a great 12/16 article, "The Myth of Western Democracy."

Update 2/5/2019 - Protested yesterday for an hour in front of the State House. SUPER response. Many thanks to all who visited this blog and to those who signaled support. Special thanks to those who took time to talk with me.

Update 2/6/2019 - Protested again yesterday for another hour in front of the State House. Another SUPER response, probably the best ever at that location for two hours of protesting. Thanks again to all who signaled support, the MANY who visited this blog, and another round of special thanks to those who took time to talk with me, one of whom, notably enough, was an attorney. He seemed supportive and confirmed that my understanding was correct re legalities of the probate racket.

Update 5/2/2019 - Protested for about 30 minutes yesterday at the State House during the teachers' rally. They were VERY supportive. Thanks to all who visited this blog, special thanks to those who took videos. 

What YOU can do:

>  Spread the word about the probate/trust racket. Most folks don't find out about the attorney-generated horrors of probate until they are struggling through the bereavement process, and shock value is a key part of the effort to browbeat people into hiring a probate attorney.

>  If you need help with non-probate matters, avoid using attorneys who advertise that they specialize in probate. Many attorneys refuse to get involved in the probate racket, and one of them told me with a wink, "It's a 'highly specialized' area of law."

>  Refuse to be bullied by the attorney-generated horrors of probate into paying attorneys to set up trusts. Probate is financed with tax dollars, and should be an inexpensive, viable alternative to setting up trusts. Executors (now called Personal Representatives) shouldn't need a law degree to probate an inheritance.

>  Cut costs by downloading your own estate documents - especially wills - from the Internet. Paying probate attorneys outlandish fees to "draw up a will" is risky business, because attorney-legislators have a vested interest in nullifying wills.

>  Last - and what certainly shouldn't be least (but probably is) - send "your representatives" an email expressing your sentiments about the probate/trust racket.

Nikki Setzler clams up - ignores my latest e-mail

I just love it when a deceitful, conniving little jerk like Nikki Setzler - spoiled rotten by the decades-long subservience of a stupefied South Carolina public - shows his true colors. .

Way back on 12/5/2017, I sent Setzler an e-mail via SC Legislature Online asking what he plans to do during the 2018 legislative session to simplify probate and eliminate time limits on wills. Haven't heard a word back, which has been his modus operandi from the get-go.

Who, pray tell (if a lowly racket victim may dare to ask), does Lord Nikki think he is?

He certainly doesn't think of himself as a representative of the people of South Carolina. We need only look at his stonewalling due to his conflict of interest when it comes to simplifying probate, and his co-sponsorship of the Base Load Review Act, obligating utility customers to pay in advance and underwrite billions of dollars in risk associated with the nuclear power scandal (he now wants ratepayers to accept the proposal from Dominion Energy, which would leave them badly ripped off).

It's time for Lord Nikki to start serving the interests of South Carolinians instead of his own selfish interests and those of big-moneyed goons like SCANA. He's been backstabbing the people of South Carolina for decades, keeping things like the probate racket quiet. With Setzler receiving income from his probate-dealing law firm, it's not hard to understand why he would stonewall whoever asks him to address the issue. While he's representing the interests of probate-dealing law firms, I'd like to know more about Lord Nikki's relationship with SCANA.

Jerks like Nikki Setzler don't deserve anyone's respect. They certainly don't warrant being addressed by any name that implies they serve the public interest.

With longstanding government corruption notoriously rampant in South Carolina, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the State House gang would sneak around behind people's backs and nullify wills, requiring victims of their carefully orchestrated scam to hand over thousands of dollars in attorney fees and participate in creating a false public record that insults the memory of deceased loved ones. In the final analysis, their unconscionable probate scheme is an assault on family values.

How does anyone drop so low that they're willing to make things more difficult for people who have lost loved ones? What kind of home life, what kind of upbringing, did these jerks have?

The legislature's initiation of and refusal to remedy the decades-long nightmare of probate - the racket got underway in 1986 - supports recent polls indicating that America is a dictatorship. Factor in a presstitute mainstream media that "knows better" than to reveal what the public needs to know. Likewise for self-proclaimed government watchdog organizations like the South Carolina Policy Council.

America's effort to attain self-governance has been a failure.

Members of the South Carolina legislature are nothing more than white collar thugs. Their quietly devised ripoffs continue to get bigger and bolder as a stupefied public grovels at their feet.Utter contempt is all anyone should have for masters of deceit like Nikki Setzler, who hold themselves out to represent the public interest while acting as agents for their own interests or the interests of crooked corporations. The Base Load Review Act should have been named the Let's Enrich SCANA Act.

Not only does Nikki Setzler epitomize what's wrong with government. He's one of the absolute sorriest excuses for a human that I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.

Update 3/20/2018 - Sent a link to this post to all SC legislators, and the House and Senate Ethics and Judiciary committees. Of course, all I ever get back from the self-serving slobs are automated replies.

Ashley Landess paid over $100,000 a year to say SC's legislature is corrupt? SHAME on the SC Policy Council.

According to the South Carolina Secretary of State, make that a whoppin' $104,681 for 2016. Perhaps President Landess got a raise for 2017. I e-mailed a request to the Secretary of State after I couldn't find Landess' salary on the Council's website.

Landess is a regular commentator on Columbia's Make the Point radio station. She's a longtime friend of station founder Keven Cohen, who started his operation several years ago after being fired from his longtime job at WVOC, supposedly because WVOC wanted to go in a "different direction."

Talk about a cozy relationship.

Cohen is quick to encourage listeners to donate to the SC Policy Council, though I've never heard him mention his friend's six-figure salary. From what I've heard, a better name for Cohen's radio station would be "Miss the Point."

The trick seems to be to conjure up as many ways as possible to break the earth-shattering news to South Carolinians that their state legislature (gasp) is corrupt. Nonetheless, Cohen and Landess have yet to breathe a word about South Carolina's probate racket. That glaring omission by both of these self-proclaimed government watchdogs - I've tweeted blog links to both businesses - gets stranger by the day.

Searching the Council's website, I noticed that the Council was founded in 1986, the same year attorneys in the legislature turned probate into a money-makin' racket designed to pad their own greedy pockets. Is the public expected to believe that a bonafide government watchdog organization, present from the get-go, has never seen fit to publicize what was going on?

Kinda makes ya wonder what guidelines Landess and Cohen follow when deciding where they want to focus the public's attention. Or, more to the point, what they want to focus the public's attention away from. Lately, the nuclear power scandal has taken front and center in their blabberings.

Landess' commentary last week was downright alarming.

She cooed ever so sweetly into Cohen's microphone that based on the Council's recent "research," legislators may now have no alternative but to allow power companies to continue charging customers for the boondoggle. In other words, the gang who got us into this mess may not now be able to get us out, an opinion at odds with late-breaking news regarding the proposed sale of South Carolina Electric and Gas.

Cohen's behavior has also been enough to raise eyebrows. For example, instead of interviewing a culprit like Nikki Setzler, who co-sponsored the bill that got the mess started, Cohen "grilled" a relatively unknown House member who wasn't even around when the nuclear power scandal quietly got underway. Notice in the news article linked to above that Nikki Setzler has nothing but praise for the proposed sale of SCE&G, which would leave rate-payers badly ripped off.

At this point, nobody can be blamed for wondering exactly who bankrolls the South Carolina Policy Council, or, to make the point even clearer, who's interests Cohen and Landess are looking out for. But alas. In that regard, the Council's professed dedication to "transparency" has again faltered.

I BELIEVE Landess when she declares that keeping the South Carolina Policy Council's donors anonymous is designed to protect them from reprisal.

Now that I'm more familiar with how the Council operates, I better understand why, when I first e-mailed the Council (in February of 2016) about South Carolina's probate racket, their response was "Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to pursue a topic like that." Right. When "resources" are spent on six-figure salaries, ya gotta cut somewhere.

Methinks Cohen and Landess protesteth too much. Actions speak louder than words.

Update 3/23/2018 - Cohen's refusal to mention SC's probate racket may have something to do with the fact that a probate-dealing lawyer - Jesse Near - advertises on Cohen's radio station. Near has a knack for keeping his location quiet: Couldn't find anything but a PO Box on the Internet.

Update 1/25/2018 - Protested for a little over 2.5 hrs front of Williams, Stitely, and Brink law firm across from the probate court. Thanks to all who visited this blog, signaled support, and took time to talk with me.

Update 1/18/2018 - Cohen is now running Dominion Energy ads (for which he's paid) and featuring fast talking Dominion big shots as guests. How long are South Carolinians gonna put up with being ripped off by self-serving jerks in the legislature?

Update 1/16/2018 - Protested front of the State House for 'bout an hr n 15 mins. THANKS to all who signaled support, 'specially the guy who took my photo n promised to put it on the Internet. GREAT to be back on my bicycle after 3 months off due to hernia surgery.

Update 1/5/2018 - Truly a pleasure to send a link to this post to all SC legislators and the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.