{"id":401,"date":"2008-03-06T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/03\/06\/bucks-saving-big-bucks\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T06:10:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T11:10:17","slug":"bucks-saving-big-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/bucks-saving-big-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck&#8217;s saving big bucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">If you are not sitting down, please do so before continuing to read this post. You may become faint. Secretary H. B. \u201cBuck\u201d Limehouse gave an impressive presentation Wednesday morning in a Finance sub-committee meeting. Mr. Limehouse is the new secretary of the reformed South Carolina Department of Transportation.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He showed us how the SCDOT saved the taxpayer $27,582,820. You did not misread that statement. A government bureau reported to us this morning that it is actually working diligently to save you money! Much of the savings were because of Buck\u2019s no-nonsense business approach to the multi-billion dollar agency. They\u2019ve decreased travel, eliminated lobbyists, and improved the contract bidding process. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/03\/05\/scdot-cost-savings-report\/\">Read the full report<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/backrow.org\/janetfainting.jpg?resize=410%2C317\" height=\"317\" style=\"width: 221px; height: 149px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not sitting down, please do so before continuing to read this post. You may become faint. Secretary H. B. \u201cBuck\u201d Limehouse gave an impressive presentation Wednesday morning in a Finance sub-committee meeting. Mr. Limehouse is the new secretary of the reformed South Carolina Department of Transportation.\u00a0 He showed us how the SCDOT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}