Greenville County, SC

Not one to follow in the footsteps of Illinois’ corruption, South Carolina is near the bottom of the list for corrupt states, coming in at #27.

What’s striking is that 3 of the top 4 most corrupt states are also among the unhealthiest states, namely Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

1. Louisiana(7.67)
2. Mississippi (6.66)
3. Kentucky (5.18)
4. Alabama (4.76)
5. Ohio(4.69)
6. Illinois (4.68)
7. Pennsylvania (4.55)
8. Florida (4.47)
9. New Jersey (4.32)
10. New York (3.95)
11. Tennessee (3.68)
12. Virginia (3.64)
13. Oklahoma (2.96)
14. Connecticut (2.80)
15. Missouri (2.79)
16. Arkansas (2.74)
17. Massachusetts (2.66)
18. Texas (2.44)
19. Maryland (2.31)
20. Michigan (2.14)
21. Georgia (2.13)
22. Wisconsin (2.09)
23. California (2.07)
24. North Carolina (1.96)
25. Arizona (1.88)
26. Indiana (1.85)
27. South Carolina (1.74)
28. Nevada (1.72)
29. Colorado (1.56)
30. Washington (1.52)
31. Utah (1.4117)
32. Kansas (1.4109)
33. Minnesota (1.24)
34. Iowa (0.91)
35. Oregon (0.68)

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South Carolina citizen’s are getting fed up with DHEC’s slack enforcement of rules and regulations. After all, it’s extremely hard to go up against a State run Agency when it’s in bed with the local businesses it’s tasked with regulating.

Here are just 4 incidents that many SC citizens aren’t even aware of:

But being soft on serious violators is part of the agency’s unspoken culture, said Jerry Paul, a retired upper level DHEC health licensing official.

1. DHEC in 1985 found dangerous amounts of lead in the drinking water of Richland County’s Franklin Park neighborhood. But it didn’t get the lead removed until 2005, when the residents already had lead in their blood.
2. Not until earlier this year did DHEC post signs at rivers to warn residents of the dangers of eating mercury-laced fish at hundreds of fishing spots across the state. DHEC knew the health threat had been expanding since the early 1990s and had put notices out to the media.

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