New Attorney General Alan Wilson can't get fixed your clock. He hasn't used the Kindle eReader that he got for Christmas. He stopped regular jogs.
"I just don't have time," says Wilson, 37, sworn in on January 12th, for a term of four years.
Your life never stops now. He shares some functions of child care for two preschool children with his wife, Jennifer, Manager of public affairs at the Lexington Medical Center, get home in time to read children books like "Goodnight Gorilla."
He is also an important in the National Guard who spends one weekend per month and two weeks each year on duty.
In his new position at $ 92.007 per year as top legal advisor of South Carolina, Wilson is still getting your mind all the work, reading law cases and whitepapers, chatting with members of the House and Senate and trying to figure out how to best run their offices in lean budget times.
Your Office gets about $ 3.7 million per year on State funds — about $ 4 million less than a few years ago. This money, along with several million multiple rates and federal subsidies, have to pay for a team of 169 people, including lawyers 69 and associated expenses. Total budget of the Institute is approximately 7.6 million.
In an interview last week, Wilson shared some plans:
He will continue initiatives begun by predecessor Henry McMaster to spotlight and prosecute criminal domestic violence, sexual offenders and Internet Predator cases of cruelty to animals.
With other States, he will fight in the courts against the national health plan of President Obama, attacking him for constitutional reasons.
Also with several other States, it is ready to fight a court battle on the effort of the Board of the national labour relations to prevent to approve a constitutional amendment approved in November which guarantees the right to secret ballot elections unions of South Carolina.
Although a conservative Republican inspired, Wilson is clear about the tone he wants to define — someone who reaches out to people in different parts of a controversy, which is open to all interest groups, and that won't hold grudges.
"This is a Republican State, but you can't do things without Democrats in the House and Senate," he said. "And there are so many questions that this Office deals with non-partisan".
Sometimes it can compromise, sometimes he can't, but "someone who is with me 70% of the time is not my enemy of 30 per cent."
FEDERAL BUDGET ISSUES, PROBLEMS
As politicians of South Carolina made for centuries, Wilson makes it clear he goes toe to toe with federal officials, says are usurping the authority.
For example, after Lafe Solomon, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel, threatened to sue the South Carolina earlier this month issue of secret Union, Wilson said that he was ready to fight not only legally as Solomon politically.
This is explained as, Wilson. After President Obama named Solomon, a lawyer career NLRB, be official research and higher public prosecutor's Office of the Agency, Wilson contacted the Office of u.s. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-s. c., to talk about grasping the nomination of Solomon. (Senate rules allow only Senators sometimes put "safe" for people and laws, effectively freezing any action on the subject).
"This guy confirmation must be delayed (Solomon). I won't say stopped, "said Wilson. "But we need in the registry by selecting its position ....If it is not a sufficient explanation, I'll ask our Senators to hold him. "
It is too early to learn about State budget cuts will boycott Wilson office.
But people like Vicki Bourus, Executive Director of the S.C. Coalition against domestic violence and Sexual abuse, says she expects Wilson can continue with one of the programs signature McMaster — working against violence against women. South Carolina has one of the highest rates in the country of women killed and beaten by their partners.
"McMaster was probably the leading State much better than we had in this arena," said Bourus. Not only did McMaster use your Office as a bully pulpit to talk, he got grants and used settlements in lawsuits to configure programs such as shelters for battered women and hire prosecutors specially trained to put pressure on domestic violence cases in court. We need developers trained to combat these cases, said Bourus.
Wilson said, "right now my main concern is to offer the same most services on the same level with a lot less money. ... I'll do as much possible with each of these things without cannibalizing another. "
Money woes already bedevil office.
"We don't have the cash or the ability to go out and do ... new cases of insurance fraud," Wilson said.
Wilson said that the Attorney General's Office has the potential to generate significant revenue through some investigations and lawsuits. It can seek additional funds to the General Assembly for the resources that generate a great return.
The rewards can be great. In the 1990s, the former Attorney General Charlie Condon reluctantly joined Attorneys General in other States that sued tobacco companies to recover damages for loss of health care. The State has $ 2 billion. And McMaster earned a $ 45 million in a case of drug company.
"We're thinking outside the Inbox," said Wilson. That includes looking at ways to get more money and working with other agencies and private-law undertakings operate, he said.
The primary mission of Government is the public safety — protect people of all violent crimes of fraud the fraud on the Internet, he said.
"This Office is right there in the center of the storm," said Wilson. "We should be adequately funded to that."
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