Meet A. Citizen

With the New Year comes new ideas and new directions here at FITS.

It’s a dog eat dog world out there – increasingly so – and if you don’t evolve and offer people something different, you’re going to get eaten alive.

In that spirit, we’re initiating a tradition that Sic Willie briefly conjured up during his brief one-week stint as a guest columnist over at SC Hotline.

Specifically, we’d like to reintroduce you to “A. Citizen.”

Wait .. who? Who’s that you say?

Well, he/she could be anybody. In fact, in the coming weeks and months – they could even be you.

“A. Citizen.” Get it?

Yeah … anyway, here’s how it works.

“A. Citizen” is a new opinion column here at FITS that’s going to be written by … well, you.

While we’ll obviously continue to accept opinion columns written by people who put their names on them (i.e. Gov. Mark Sanford and SC Policy Council President Ashley Landess), a lot of people have contacted us wanting to submit columns – except that they absolutely positively don’t want their names attached to them.

“I’d get fired if I wrote something like that,” one would-be guest columnist told us.

“I want to say it, but I don’t want my name on it,” is another phrase we hear often.

Well … now you don’t have to worry about any of that.

Let “A. Citizen” take the fall for your brilliant musings by putting his/her name on it!

What are the rules?

There really aren’t any. All we ask is that you keep the columns under 1,000 words … and agree to let Andrew, err, Anna Citizen take credit for your brilliance.

In fact, we’ve already had a FITS fan submit an inaugural column for the Andrew Citizen Series that we’re running with early next week.

The topic? SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson, who’s been in the news a good bit lately.

Anyway, stay tuned for more of these columns, too … and feel free to let the voice of your Inner Citizen come out on our Submissions Page.