-- Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3. “I have never taken service to the state I love or the jobs to which I have been elected lightly, endeavoring to work with my colleagues, from constitutional officers to members of the General Assembly, to be a strong defender of the taxpayer and a good steward of their hard-earned tax dollars,” Eckstrom wrote in the March 23 letter to South Carolina Gov. Eckstrom reiterated his support for that change Thursday in his resignation letter