Meeting about school board president’s ethics violations devolves into death threats, profanity, shoving
January 28, 2019
By Victor Skinner
The chairman of South Carolina’s Richland School District 2 board of education faces more than $51,000 in fines for ethics violations, and her refusal to resign her post is dividing the community.
Just last week, the issue prompted a physical fight after a school board meeting that resulted in two police incident reports detailing shoving, profanity, and threats to kill, WIS reports.
The two heavily redacted incidents reports, filed on Jan. 22 and 23, center on recent revelations that Richland 2 Board Chair Amelia McKie owes more than $51,000 in fines to the South Carolina Ethics Commission for failing to submit campaign disclosure forms from her 2014 election.
Board members proposed a new rule at last Tuesday’s meeting that would allow a supermajority of members to force officers including the chairman, vice chairman or secretary to forfeit their post, though the board hasn’t yet formally adopted the idea, according to The State.
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