Demand an investigation

Should the public demand an investigation of the chaos just before the school board meeting started on January 25?

To whom would a demand be made? The Superintendent of the South Carolina Board of Education? The South Carolina Ethics Commission? Chief Justice of the Richland County Magistrates' Courts? Chairman of the Richland County Council? Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives? President of the S.C. Senate?'

Definitely not any officer at the South Carolina School Boards Association!

Board Chair Holmes, herself an illegitimate member of the school board, has announced that there will not be an investigation.

Why won't there be? A valid reason is NOT because the Sheriff declined to file charges. 

It would take a decision by "the board" to launch an investigation. "The board" means a majority of the seven-member board. Three legitimate members (Agostini, Scott, McFadden) want an investigation. 

Holmes, McKie, Manning and Caution-Parker do not want an investigation.

BUT what if the two illegitimate members of the board couldn't vote? What if Holmes and McKie, both illegitimate members of the board since November 13, 2018, could not vote?

Then five members of the board would make the decision.

Agostini, Scott and McFadden would vote in favor of an investigation.

Manning and Caution-Parker would vote against it.

If a Motion were made to investigate and if that Motion were made to the five legitimate board members, you can bet your bottom dollar that one of them would walk out. That would leave four, which is not a quorum, and business could not be conducted. Who would beat the other out the door? Place your bets in the Comments.

Holmes and McKie would have to sit on their hands and watch, preferably from the peanut gallery like the rest of us.

The vote would be 3-2. Motion passes. Launch the investigation. Just imagine the whining and gnashing of teeth. 

It would be proper to get investigators from outside the District to conduct the investigation. Investigators who are fully independent and impartial.