What is Wateree Community Actions?

watereecommunityactionsinc.org ^ | February 24, 2010 | N/A

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/pages/RecipientReportedDataMap.aspx?State=SC&datasource=recipient

According to the Recovery.org website, Sumter, S.C. received $15,827,385 of our tax money. According to the same site, this money was credited with creating or saving 4.91 jobs.

Were did the money go?

The county of Sumter got $62,400. The city of Sumter got $253,828.

The Santee-Wateree RTA got in excess of $1,000,000.

The Santee Lynches regional Council of Governments got $3,103,434 for one grant and another $112,017 for a second.

Then it gets interesting.

Wateree Community Action Inc is awarded $700,000.

Then awarded $1,076,865.

Then awarded $6,435,805.

Then awarded $429,049.

Then awarded $244,800.

Then awarded $2,073,186.

Sumter County has one of the highest unemployment rates in S.C.

Maybe Jim Clyburn, John Spratt, Bob Inglis, Joe Wilson, Henry Brown, and Gesham Barrett could look into this.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/pages/RecipientReportedDataMap.aspx?State=SC&datasource=recipient

Where the stimulus money went misssing.

[Jet Jaguar]

ACORN Ping

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.

Wateree Community Action Inc

[Jet Jaguar]

I figure I should ping you two.

[smokingfrog]

Probably one of those outfits that somehow manages to waste $28,000 to weatherize your house with $30 worth of caulk and $250 worth of attic insulation.

[Jet Jaguar]

5 jobs...

Somebody got rich.

[icwhatudo]

Can't go into it too deep tonight but heres a head start for others that might want to dig:

This site of "South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships" actually lists some names of Watertree directors)

Heres is Cedric Kirkman's (AKA "polar bear") myspace page. He is listed on the above site as part of Watertree.

Some other names to research:

Willie Bethune
13 S Main St
Sumter, SC 29150-5244
(803) 484-5306
Wateree Community Action, Executive Director

Mrs. Fredrica Brailsford
Ms. Rebecca Duncan
Mr. Howard Parnell
Mr. George Gibson

[JennysCool]

Wow! I wonder how much grant money it took for Wateree Community Actions to put together that amazing list of liberal BS cliches?

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks!

[Jet Jaguar]

- It displays information exhibits to teach, educate, and instill appreciation

- It coordinates and collaborates with other community entities to exchange and share ideas and resources.

I would swear that was Obamas’ teleprompter speaking.

[Jet Jaguar]

A voteless person is HOPELESS! So get out and vote if you want what’s best for our country. Lets make HISTORY together as ONE!

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Cedrics status.

[icwhatudo]

Mr. Bethunes full name is

"Wateree Community Action Agency, Inc.
Mr. Willie Lee Bethune, Executive Director"

Here is a South Carolina court action against "Former Clarendon County Magistrate Willie L. Bethune" for a sex scandal with a female defendant.

If its the same guy, we may have the first piece of dirt on this. Will check in later, good luck fellow freepers on the hunt!

[JennysCool]

There’s a very telling letter here from 1993, during which Mrs. Fredrica Brailsford complains that a newspaper photograph did not contain enough black people:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1980&dat=19930211&id=ulwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t9kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3083,2147825

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks. Bump.

[icwhatudo]

more here on Willie Bethune and a lawsuit involving "Pee Dee". Pee Dee is listed on the link of all the orgs I posted first along with Watertree.

[icwhatudo]

From the PEE-DEE matter:

"Bevis became the administrative director of the Pee Dee Mental Health Center (the “Center”), a branch of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (the “Department”), in July 1984. He was promoted to executive director of the Center in 1985 and served in that position for nearly seventeen years. (J.A. at 279.) After an investigation revealed serious procurement violations at the Center, Bevis announced his voluntary retirement, effective November 2001."

----snip---

"Willie Bethune who became Bevis’s supervisor"

So now we have a sex scandal and procurement violations! (Sigh...I really wanted to go to bed-lol)

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Willie+Lee+Bethune++Sumter%2C+S.C.&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

[Jet Jaguar]

Go to bed.

I need to as well.

I will peruse tomorrow.

[icwhatudo]

Appears the magistrates middle name is Lee as well:

http://www.scscja.com/judges/clarendoncounty/clarendoncountymaglist.htm

5551
Judge Willie Lee Bethune
County Jail
Highway 261 Boyce Street
Gable, SC 29051-0000
Post Office Box 93
Gable, SC 29051-0093

Still not 100% confirmation. Could be 2 different Willie Lee Bethune’s. Need to connect this Willie Lee Bethune magistrate (with the sex scandal) to the Watertree Executive director Willie Lee Bethune.

[icwhatudo]

Seriously, its 2:40! Goodnight!