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During a senate confirmation hearing in March of this year Interim South Carolina Department of Health Dr. Edward Simmer testified under oath that he had been “threatened” his and his wife’s car had been “Vandalized” in an attempt to “intimidate” him. A story Palmetto Examiner covered.
“I have been threatened. Our car has been vandalized in an attempt to intimidate me,” Simmer said during testimony, “Peggy’s absence is not a show of non-support, but rather a shield to protect her from a potentially hostile encounter with opponents and those that wish us harm.”
Simmer later told reporters from the Post and Courier the car he shares with his wife was vandalized with a device attached to the license plate with two wires that were connected to a battery pack, then went into a box made to look like a bomb.
“Thankfully it wasn’t (a bomb), but it was frightening,” Simmer said.
But did Dr. Simmer lie under oath about the threats and the fake car bomb to the media? A South Carolina Watch Dog group thinks he may have.
According to Palmetto State Watch Foundation that posted on you tube a video of a press question and answer session with Simmer, the media asked him what were the most serious threats that he had received. Simmer described letters that read, “you need to be held accountable; we’re going to hurt you,” and that something was placed on his car that “was a clear attempt to make something look like a bomb.”
A non-member of the press, Evan Mulch, asks from the back if Simmer reported any of this to the police?
This creates quite the commotion from the press in the room who turn to Mulch and shut him down telling him not to talk because, “you’re not the news staff.”
Apparently the press doesn’t like it when non press people try to do their jobs better than they do.
Of course, Simmer doesn’t answer that question and the press moves on without ever asking that question, but asks him to describe the bomb.
I think Mulch’s question was a great question and very relevant since Simmer is basically alleging threats of terrorism on a state official, but what do I know, I went to junior college?
Since the media didn’t seem to wonder if Simmer had reported acts of terrorism on a state official to the police, Alaina Moore, from Palmetto State Watch Foundation did her own digging.
Moore sent FOIA requests to both the Beaufort and Beaufort County the police departments were Simmer and his wife live, the request was answered that no police report had been filed.
Why did Simmer not report these threats to law enforcement? Especially as a state official? These were acts that could be considered terrorism. Unless he was lying about them, which if he did lie, he did so under oath, and that could be considered perjury.
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