FITSnews.com versus Bolton
December 29, 2009 | South Carolina, industry | Comments (0)We love anyone who takes on Warren Bolton, the anti-payday lending jihadist at State Newspaper of South Carolina. From the posting:
Bolton, it seems, has a bit of a liberal ideological “bro-mance” going with Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Morrison – something he has been gushing about breathlessly in his columns for months.
Anyway, we noted in our report that Bolton (who is South Carolina’s preeminent anti-payday lending crusader) had yet to mention a certain something about Morrison in any of his fawning columns – namely the fact that Morrison has served as lead counsel for payday lending giant Advance America (which also just so happens to be the company La Socialista hit up in a recent journalistic blackmail scam).
Why does this matter? Well, another Columbia attorney in the mayoral race – Steve Benjamin – also has connections to the payday lending industry, which is something Bolton points out every chance he can get.
Several days after our story ran, reporter Adam Beam over at La Socialista (apparently flooded with phone calls as a result of our post), wrote an article on his Metro Desk blog entitled “Steve Morrison and Payday Lending” which addressed Morrison’s alleged connections to the payday lending industry.
In that story, both Morrison and Advance America flatly denied that Morrison had ever worked for the company.
Specifically, Morrison said that he has “never represented a payday lending company,” according to Beam, while Advance America said that “Morrison does not represent them and never has.”
Pretty cut and dried, right?
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