It all started as a $12 million coding error
Grooms said he expects once Eckstrom is dealt with the Senate will take up other matters his subcommittee recommended like dismantling his agency and sending its duties to other offices. In the House, the resolution needs 83 of 124 votes. Just 30 are needed for the two-thirds threshold to pass. Thirty-eight of 46 senators signed on to sponsor the proposal. Grooms said the legislature needs to act because Eckstrom isn't doing "the honorable thing" and resigning. Larry Grooms, who is sponsoring the resolution. "At least for a decade we know that he has signed his name, Richard Eckstrom, CPA, on our state's closing financial document and every year he has been wrong," said Republican Sen. comptroller or treasurer for nearly a quarter-centuryĪ certified public accountant, Eckstrom, 74, has spent 20 years as comptroller general and before that four years as state treasurer. Several senators couldn't remember this process being used since it was added to the constitution more than 50 years ago.Įckstrom has been S.C. The constitution allows Eckstrom a hearing in his own defense, although the exact procedure isn't clear. It could affect South Carolina's credit rating and destroyed any confidence that a large number of lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state had in Eckstrom.Ī resolution introduced Thursday seeks a two-thirds vote from the House and the Senate to trigger a state constitutional provision that says the governor should remove Eckstrom for "willful neglect of duty." The error wasn't in actual cash, but in the way the state reports its balance sheets. South Carolina lawmakers angry over a $3.5 billion accounting blunder by the state's comptroller general began efforts Thursday to sack the official, a day after demanding he quit or be fired.Ĭomptroller General Richard Eckstrom told senators last month he had unintentionally exaggerated the state's cash position by $3.5 billion by overstating the amount the state had sent to colleges and universities for a decade. So, if you do something else on your next turn, and a fire giant passes under the archway, you don't get to use the readied action from the previous round.COLUMBIA, S.C. If you don't spend your round holding the readied action from the last round, the action is no longer readied. You may continue to hold the readied action, if you want, or you can do whatever else your character could normally do in a turn. If a whole round passes without a fire giant passing under the archway, and your turn comes up again, you take your turn normally. Your initiative changes, and for the remainder of the encounter, your turn comes directly after the fire giant's (or after the fire giant would have gone, if it's now dead).
If the fire giant isn't dead or incapacitated in some way or another, it finishes its turn, including being able to finish a move action it had not been able to complete, if it was moving. It does whatever column of ice happens to do. Your readied action goes off during the fire giant's turn. You or your DM needs to remember to track that condition if the DM forgets, make sure to remind him/her. Other turns go, until the first fire giant passes under the archway. On your turn, you state what spell you are preparing to cast and some conditions under which you will cast it, such as, "I ready an action to cast column of ice when the first fire giant passes under the archway." But it's not an immediate action it's called "readying an action." Here's how it goes:
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