Support The “FITS FOIA Fund”

By FITSNews || As this little website has grown over the last three years, so has the target on our backs …

In fact, it seems that every time we turn around there’s a new effort to attack us, undermine our founding editor or in some way diminish this website’s “credibility,” which is funny considering we’ve never given much thought to accumulating what passes for “credibility” in South Carolina’s incestuous political world.

We haven’t sought “credibility’ … we’ve sought only to speak simple truths that the mainstream media so often avoid or refuse to tell (while they hypocritically boast of speaking “truth to power”).

Oh, we’ve also sought to have some fun along the way … just a little.

As a result of our efforts to hold the political process in South Carolina accountable, some of the most powerful political and special interests in the state have banded together in a war against FITS, threatening to destroy us and to “go after” anyone who advertises on our website.

Obviously, we wear those threats as “badges of honor.”

In fact, our list of enemies is a “who’s who” of the state’s powerful elite: the Speaker of the House, the Senate President, the Senate Finance Chairman, House Ways and Means Chairman, both Majority Leaders (and both Minority Leaders), the governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, State Superintendent, Six U.S. Congressmen, One U.S. Senator and basically the entire bureaucratic community, special interest lobby and mainstream media establishment.

On top of that, let’s not forget all the “big gubmint” sycophants who represent South Carolina’s so-called “business community.”

Anyway, in addition to the ongoing crackdown on our advertising revenue and the perpetual lawsuit threats we receive, another way that people attempt to silence FITS is by denying us information.

Like our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, for example – which are routinely rejected, ignored or assigned exorbitant expense estimates.

Remember, South Carolina is a state where some bureaucracies charge hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide public information – i.e. information that taxpayers have already paid for once already.

(More on that here).

Anyway, we got to thinking and realized one way that loyal readers (and supporters of the free market, limited government, lower tax reforms we advance) could lend a helping hand was to contribute to the FITS FOIA Fund, which supports our efforts to pry the truth from South Carolina bureaucrats’ greedy fingers.

Obviously we’ll never charge for content around here (duh, Newsday) but the FITS FOIA Fund is a great way to show your support for our website.

Whether it’s $5, $25, $500 or $1 million, your support will help us continue to provide the Palmetto State’s most “Unfair, Imbalanced” coverage.

Here’s the address to send your contribution …

FITS News
c/o “FITS FOIA FUND”
P.O. BOX 5230
Columbia, S.C. 29250

Also, if you were wondering how to make out your check, we received our first contribution earlier today from our founding … now “funding” … editor.

Obviously, we won’t be publishing any other contributions, though, as all donors and amounts they contribute will remain strictly confidential – just like our network of sources and the information we receive from those sources.

It boils down to this: Is South Carolina what it should (could) be?

Or more specifically, are you satisfied with the economic climate, education system and government structure that your higher taxes, fines and fees are producing?

And if not, is there anything you can do – today – to make it better?

We think there is …

If you want to support our ongoing efforts to expose the truth and keep the pressure on the “powers that be,” please consider supporting the FITS FOIA fund.

Thank you …