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Chip Limehouse Won’t Run Again

VETERAN FISCAL LIBERAL STEPPING DOWN IN 2016 || By FITSNEWS || Fiscally liberal S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse will not seek reelection in 2016, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier is reporting. “It’s time to turn the page,” Limehouse told reporter Cynthia Roldan. “Making the decision to not run again was…

VETERAN FISCAL LIBERAL STEPPING DOWN IN 2016

|| By FITSNEWS || Fiscally liberal S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse will not seek reelection in 2016, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier is reporting.

“It’s time to turn the page,” Limehouse told reporter Cynthia Roldan. “Making the decision to not run again was probably one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make in my life, because my inclination is to run and run. Public service is in my DNA.”

Limehouse’s announcement comes scarcely forty-eight hours after this website ran a story about the twelve-term lawmaker staring down a major personal scandal.

Do the two have anything in common?

You know, as much as we love a good back story (and as much as we’d love to take credit for putting another scalp on the wall), no – they do not.

Limehouse (who barely survived reelection in 2014) was already inclined to step down at the end of his current term – and had communicated this desire to numerous individuals long before the shadows of scandal began creeping up on him.  And now that he’s stepping down, it’s far less likely the media (including us) will pursue the scandal narrative.

As first vice chairman of the S.C. House’s powerful budget-writing committee, Limehouse has presided over robust government growth – just not robust economic growth.

Our view?  We’re glad he’s on the way out … and we don’t especially care what prompted it.

And while we wish him the best in his future endeavors, the simple fact is South Carolina is far worse off than it was when he entered the legislature way back in 1995.

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40 comments

The Colonel September 30, 2015 at 8:33 am

Fat ass doesn’t look like he’s ever run to me – oh, you mean for office…

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Col.Flagg September 30, 2015 at 8:57 am

Nice Colonel? You teach young people? Fat people are on your list to mock. Blacks,gays,crippled veterans?

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The Colonel September 30, 2015 at 9:08 am

No I only pick on fat people whose first name begins with a C – you fat ass.

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Rocky Verdad September 30, 2015 at 10:15 am

I need to lose about 20 – but my name doesn’t start with C. And I can admit my ass is a little fat without taking offense.

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Obama is punch drunk! September 30, 2015 at 10:19 am

Obama needs that extra 20lbs.Putin kicking his ass today in Syria.

The Colonel September 30, 2015 at 10:25 am

Mine grows wider every day as well (despite my best efforts) but Limehouse has more chins than the proverbial Chinese phone book and his ass looks like “…150 pounds of chewed bubble gum…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZnEPRYyUU

Rocky Verdad September 30, 2015 at 10:52 am

Yeah, what’s the freakin’ deal. I spend hours in 100 degrees digging out old landscaping and putting up new gutters pulling out old roots and come Sunday, nothing. When I was youngter that would have knocked off like 6 pounds.

mamatiger92 September 30, 2015 at 9:10 am

This from the guy who mocks children? Do you even read your own posts, flip?

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flip September 30, 2015 at 9:18 am

Thanks for the upvote above.:)

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Rocky Verdad September 30, 2015 at 10:17 am

That’s nothing. How about Tango threatening to hit me with a car yesterday. Hey Tango – from Cornell Law Review – “Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person with the specific intent that the statement made verbally in writing or by means of an electronic communication device is to be taken as a threat even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out.” DId you want to give me your address for the FBI now, or wait for them to track it down with the IP address throught FITS servers?

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Pee Wee Verdud September 30, 2015 at 10:27 am

What a pussy.Done stalking Taylor and making disgusting sexual references after SLED was contacted and now stalking GT because he disagrees with you and had a conservative blog?

Call ICE, GT.Rocky protests to much about illegal immigration.

Rocky Verdad September 30, 2015 at 10:51 am

Hey, I don’t threaten to run people over with my car. Only GT (or you if your the split personality) does that.

flip September 30, 2015 at 10:52 am

GT is the voice in my head. LMAO!!!

Teaching Idiots September 30, 2015 at 10:50 am

It is too bad he can’t teach you to shut your mouth.

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History Repeats September 30, 2015 at 8:52 am

Like so many rancid politicians before him, if he hadn’t been caught out, the gravy train would have kept chugging along. Guess he wasn’t about to make the Sanford “Jesus forgives me and so should you” play. His crimes must be truly heinous.

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fed up Republican woman September 30, 2015 at 9:18 am

Aren’t we Republicans sooo proud of our officials?
Mark Sanford
Richard Eckstrom
Bob Peeler
Ken Ard
Bobby Harrell
James R. Metts
Thomas Ravenel
They are miscreants and the folk who vote for them are feckless, shameless idiots.

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Sic Semper Tyrannis September 30, 2015 at 10:08 am

Why such a small list ?

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rag time September 30, 2015 at 9:00 am

“And while we wish him the best in his future endeavors”

I always love this one…’we tried to destroy you and your family however we only wish you the best in the future’

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CorruptionInColumbia September 30, 2015 at 9:39 am

Why wish him the best in the future? Everyone knows, or should know, that any future “successes” this POS will enjoy will come at the expense of taxpayers. Whether as an appointee to some commission or board, a lobbyist, or other like endeavor, he and those like him will continue to suck the blood of his host.

Personally, I wish him failure and collapse in his endeavors.

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shifty henry September 30, 2015 at 9:08 am

” Public service is in my DNA.” —- Oh, really? Then who’s your daddy?

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The Colonel September 30, 2015 at 9:08 am

T-Rav? He seems to be spreading pollen left and right.

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Mom September 30, 2015 at 10:22 am

RIGHT. Public Service/holding political office is not meant to be a career. It is meant for common men/women to represent the populace as a way to “give back” to the community. Chip needs to go back to the career he trained for and contribute to society.

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Mutated Genes September 30, 2015 at 10:49 am

Making fun of genetic disorders is below the belt shifty, tsk tsk!

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shifty henry September 30, 2015 at 2:46 pm

….. but, but, doesn’t he use his belt to strap the saddle onto his polo pony?

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shifty henry September 30, 2015 at 2:48 pm

oops, a poor choice of wording — change “strap on” to “secure” …

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TontoBubbaGoldstein September 30, 2015 at 9:14 am

“Public service is in my DNA.”

Ahhhh….but for simpler, more honest times…

“Larceny is in my DNA.”
-John Jenrette

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Term limits for all September 30, 2015 at 9:22 am

Larceny, Ethics violations, immoral activities, criminal activities.
The Republican Party is tainted by all of these actions and those Republicans who continue to skirt the laws and morals on a routine and continuous basis!
Term limits for ALL!

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fed up Republican woman September 30, 2015 at 9:26 am

Again I say…….

Aren’t we Republicans sooo proud of our officials?
Mark Sanford
Richard Eckstrom
Bob Peeler
Ken Ard
Bobby Harrell
James R. Metts
Thomas Ravenel
They are miscreants and the folk who vote for them are feckless, shameless idiots

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flip September 30, 2015 at 10:52 am

Will this affect my food stamps eligibility? LMAO!!!

Superfly September 30, 2015 at 9:15 am

Seems as if South Carolina is in worse shape after Fits served in the Sanfraud Administration too. IJS…

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CorruptionInColumbia September 30, 2015 at 9:28 am

Why is it far less likely that the media (including Fits) will pursue the scandal story, just because this POS is stepping down? If he has done wrong, which I feel sure Slimehouse has done in abundance and then some, slam this piece of shit.

I don’t understand the wimpy offers allegedly made to Jimmy Metts and at least one other high-profile Midlands sheriff (or the likes of Slimehouse), not to prosecute if they step down and not run in the next election. These roaches have been growing rich off of the taxpayers and would have continued to do so indefinitely had they not been caught with their dick in the cookie jar. Slam them and stomp them. Make examples of them for the other roaches to see.

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come on now September 30, 2015 at 9:59 am

“Why is it far less likely that the media (including Fits) will pursue the scandal story, just because this POS is stepping down? If he has done wrong, which I feel sure Slimehouse has done in abundance and then some, slam this piece of shit.”

lol..maybe because it was just made up bull shit?

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CorruptionInColumbia September 30, 2015 at 10:00 am

Not likely.

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come on now September 30, 2015 at 10:03 am

Where is the proof?When makes allegations that could destroy a person and their family-don’t they have an obligation to prove it?

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CorruptionInColumbia September 30, 2015 at 2:16 pm

I can’t prove it is the wind that moves things around outside, sometimes gently and ither times not so gentely. Even though I cannot see the wind I know it is there and I see the result of its work.

Soft Sigh from Hell September 30, 2015 at 6:52 pm

Yeah, what common burglar gets, “Stop stealing and we’ll let you walk”?

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CorruptionInColumbia September 30, 2015 at 6:55 pm

Exactly!!!!!

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nitrat September 30, 2015 at 5:06 pm

The only thing I know about Limehouse is that every time there was any kind of out of the ordinary crime, he proposed passing a new law to specifically cover that crime even when it was already a crime under some statute.
If we don’t have to deal with that kind of grandstanding anymore, I’m grateful.

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bill September 30, 2015 at 11:16 pm

At least we don’t have to worry about him becoming a lobbyist. He is to stupid to both read and talk about a bill with legislators

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