Port Of Charleston’s Competitive Position Slips Further

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DROPOFF
FITSNews – January 30, 2008 – Since we were kicking around former S.C. Ports Authority board member Tumpy Campbell a good bit yesterday, we figured we ought to give you a reason why. And here it is – according to this morning’s edition of the Charleston Post and Courier, the once-proud Port [...]

Landess Tapped To Run S.C. Policy Council

DON’T MESS WITH THIS ANGEL, PEOPLE
FITSNews – January 29, 2008 – In one of the best executive decisions since the Brits put Winston Churchill in the Cabinet, FITSNews has learned that the Board of Directors of the S.C. Policy Council has selected Ashley Landess (middle angel, we think) to lead South Carolina’s most influential conservative [...]

Sit Down And Shut Up, Tumpy

BUT LET’S NOT GIVE THE GOVERNOR A “VICTORY” HE DOESN’T DESERVE
FITSNews – January 29, 2008 – The worst-kept secret in South Carolina politics is that former State Ports Authority board member Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell III has a brain about the size of a walnut. Seriously, how on earth does anybody let themselves get outmaneuvered [...]

FITSNews Exclusive – Leatherman Digging For Supreme Court Votes

SENATE BUDGET WRITER ALLEGEDLY BLACKMAILING COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT HIS SUPREME COURT NOMINEE
FITSNews – January 28, 2008 – State Senator Hugh Leatherman, whose unrivaled influence over South Carolina’s ever-escalating state budget has earned him the nickname “Godfather of Pork,” is using his powerful position as Senate Finance Chairman to steer legislative votes toward Supreme Court nominee [...]

Echo Chamber – Who’s Hot (The Dudes)?

TWO OF OUR FAVORITIST GALS TEAM UP TO RANK THE (S.C.) STATE HOUSE’S HOTTEST HUNKS
FITSNews – Janaury 27, 2008 – One of the best kept secrets in South Carolina politics is that the FITS gals don’t exist entirely in Sic Willie‘s warped and depraved little mind. We’re not sure at what point in the “dude [...]

And Y’all Thought Last Year Was Corrupt …

GREEDY, CORRUPT SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICIANS SET TO OUT-DO THEMSELVES IN 2008
FITSNews – January 27, 2008 – For the second time in less than a year, state lawmakers are accusing powerful Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman of using taxpayer dollars to blackmail his colleagues into voting the way he wants them to. The latest allegations against [...]

Billary Got Its Ass Kicked

YO-BAMA CRUISES TO BLOWOUT SOUTH CAROLINA WIN
FITSNews – January 26, 2008 – Riding an unprecedented wave of African-American turnout, Illinois Senator Barack Obama decimated the Clinton machine in today’s South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, dealing a huge blow to the presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton and the myth of Bill Clinton as America’s “first [...]

Working To The Last Minute For Their Man

OBAMA SUPPORTERS TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA
FITSNews – January 26, 2008 – With less than 120 minutes to go before polls close in the high-turnout S.C. Democratic presidential primary, supporters of Illinois Senator Barack Obama were still hitting the pavement to turn out the vote for their man.
In a row of Section Eight [...]

Shealy To Run “Anti-Sanford” Candidate Slate

VETERAN SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICAL CONSULTANT SCOOPING UP “HIT LIST” TARGETS
FITSNews – January 25, 2008 – In another masterful marketing move, veteran South Carolina political consultant Rod Shealy is reportedly scooping up new clients off of the so-called “Sanford hit list,” a collection of incumbent State Legislators ostensibly targeted for defeat by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.
Shealy, [...]

It’s Not Exactly Woodward And Bernstein, But …

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HERE’S ONE OF THE JOURNALISTS WHO BROKE THE “S.C. LEGISLATIVE HIT LIST” STORY
FITSNews – January 24, 2008 – Again, we had absolutely no idea that Sic Willie was this important, but the website Shot Politics has an extensive video interview with one of the authors of yesterday’s Free Times story about an [...]

The S.C. House Is Busy Today

ADULT DAY CARE SPRINGS INTO ACTION, PEOPLE
FITSNews – January 24, 2008 – The South Carolina House of Representatives kicked out two more bills today, one that would provide a tax cut to married couples and one that would dedicate South Carolina’s vehicle sales tax to the State Highway Fund.
The bills come a day after the [...]

Hot. Fresh. Scandal.

LOCAL ALTERNATIVE WEEKLY TURNS THE TABLES ON BAD BOY SIC WILLIE
FITSNews – January 23, 2008 – For someone used to busting off verbal caps in other people’s asses, this morning’s edition of The (Columbia, S.C.) Free Times is something of a role reversal for our founding editor Sic Willie.
According to the local alternative weekly’s new [...]