The Special Underwear PAC

By FITSNews || We caught some grief the other day for making fun of Mormons (you know … like we make fun of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Scientologists, etc.), which of course prompted our founding editor’s typical reaction to criticism.

“You are hereby instructed to find the first Mormon thing that we can make fun of,” Sic Willie wrote in an email to the FITS newsroom at 10:37 a.m. Monday.

“Oh I forgot – and make fun of it,” he wrote in a follow-up email received at 10:38 a.m.

“You know – on our internet website,” he wrote again at 10:40 a.m.

“Which is FITSNews.com,” he wrote, also at 10:40 a.m.

Well, it didn’t take much “Latter Day digging” on our part to find a suitable candidate – the “Palmetto Patriot Leadership Committee,” or as we’re calling it here at FITS, the “S.C. Special Underwear PAC.”

Run by State Rep. Alan Clemmons – who is Mormon – this “leadership” political action committee was formed last year and currently boasts a whopping $5,500 in its bank account ($3,500 from the American Resort Development Association and $2,000 from the S.C. Outdoor Advertising Association).

Sadly, Clemmons appears to have formed his PAC too late to get in on the big 1-cent sales tax hike payoff, although his campaign committee did receive thousands of dollars from that scam.

Obviously, we’ve expressed our opposition to these “Leadership PACs” many times in the past.  Lawmakers collecting special interest money to distribute to their colleagues strikes us as an eminently corruptible process.

In fact, it is an eminently corruptible process.