As we reported earlier this week, "pay to play" allegations leveled against S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis appear to be nothing more than political payback from S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, State Senator Greg Ryberg and powerful members of the S.C. Retirement System Investment Commission (SCRSIC). Why? Loftis
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The Charleston Place Hotel - one of historic Charleston, South Carolina's premier downtown destinations - is suing Palmetto political consultant Robert Cahaly and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) for nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The lawsuit was filed earlier this week
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We're naturally suspicious of organizations with cheesy acronyms ... or groups which declare themselves to be supporters of the "free market." Why? Because it's been our experience that such entities exist less to advance a specific issue or ideology and more to provide political cover to establishment
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In news that will come as a shock to absolutely no one following Palmetto State politics (and in particular, those eying prospective match-ups for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial primary), the sitting governor of South Carolina is doing everything within her power to pistol-whip some bad news on the
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S.C. Sen. Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) will not seek reelection in 2012, although the longtime liberal is reportedly frustrated by his own inability to find a suitable replacement. Leventis - who has been a slavish devotee of South Carolina's failed status quo for the last three decades - has approached
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Our only prior experience with windshield damage stems from an April 2007 incident in which a certain South Carolina politician (who shall remain nameless) got a little too excited and fist-pumped his own windshield after imbibing a twelve-pack of Bud Light and inhaling half a case of Cuban cigars. "Blame
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley - whose Inspector General's office has done virtually nothing over the last ten months - signed off on legislation that would broaden the scope and increase the power of this heretofore impotent "agency." Good for her. Well ... sort of. Haley's previous posturing on the
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By Sarah Nuckles || Fairy tales are wonderful. They provide hope and warm feelings - the good guys win and the bad guys lose. Unfortunately reality isn’t a fairy tale, and this tale is not going to have a happy ending. For the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce, and the Interstate 73/ 74 Association
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File this one under "speak no evil ..." or in this case, "speak no truth." Caroline Rhodes - S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's fee-hiking chairwoman of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) - is attempting to muzzle Mike McShane, the agency's former chairman and a leading critic of the governor's
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That didn't take long ... Just days after S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis opened up a can of whoop ass on our state's underperforming, chronically mismanaged pension fund - the good ol' boys in Columbia fought back - alleging that one of Loftis' friends is at the center of an elaborate "pay-to-play"
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We have no idea who Dwayne Green is ... although he's got a column in The Charleston City Paper that has people talking. Green's theory? That S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley - whose endorsement of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was of dubious value in South Carolina's "First in the South" presidential
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While S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and members of South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" General Assembly are content to pump more money into our state's failed pension fund bureaucracy (while cutting sweetheart deals with those responsible for its failure), State Treasurer Curtis Loftis is blowing the whistle
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