NEW JUDGE REBUFFS ATTEMPT TO DERAIL S.C. WORKERS’ COMP REFORM
FITSNews – March 11, 2008 – It turns out Upstate workers’ comp attorney Kathryn Williams isn’t quite the smooth operator she thought she was. After using her cozy relationship with a friendly judge to temporarily put the kibosh on long-overdue workers’ comp reforms a few months [...]

BLOGGERS “OUTED” AMID LEAKS TARGETING STATE’S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
FITSNews – March 11, 2008 – Ordinarily, the identity of mysterious bloggers matters about as much to us as which one of our pimped-out Escalades to take out for a night on the town. Black or white? Like our boy Jacko once said, it “don’t matter.” Of course, [...]

CONGRESS? GOVERNOR? THE CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO LINDSEY GRAHAM?
FITSNews – March 11, 2008 – A little over a year ago, S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer‘s political career appeared to be over. Even his longtime consultant, Rod Shealy, privately acknowledged that Bauer would be defeated in the 2006 GOP primary against the well-known son of a revered [...]

SCHOTLINE SAYS “MAJOR EDUCATION LAWSUIT” IMMINENT
FITSNews – March 10, 2008 – Since bringing you sexy pictures of courtroom gavels is one of our most important responsibilities here at FITSNews (see here and here), we figured the news that somebody is suing somebody over something related to education in South Carolina was worth posting on, even [...]

“PATTERN OF VINDICTIVENESS” PREVENTED BLACK CAPTAIN FROM OBJECTING TO PUNISHMENT
FITSNews – March 10, 2008 – The Chairman of the S.C. Legislative Black Caucus today disputed claims that a black Captain set the controversial punishment which ultimately cost South Carolina’s top two public safety officials their jobs last month. South Carolina Public Safety Director Jim Schweitzer and [...]

SC ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY LOOK INTO GOVERNOR’S INVOLVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT DEAL
FITSNews – March 9, 2008 – S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster is weighing an investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford‘s involvement in a controversial Lowcountry development deal, sources tell FITSNews.
Several State Senators are reportedly pressuring McMaster to launch an inquiry into Sanford’s advocacy on behalf of [...]

AND WE WANNA LET THESE IDIOTS BRING GUNS TO THE STATE HOUSE?
FITSNews – March 9, 2008 – Congratulations to S.C. Representatives Kris Crawford and Creighton Coleman for earning “Yer Mouthbreathin’ Knuggledragger(s) Of The Week” awards for March 2-9, and for demonstrating once and for all why S.C. legislators should never be allowed to take guns [...]

HOW THE SPENDFEST IN COLUMBIA REALLY WORKS
FITSNews – March 9, 2008 – Every so often, an elected official accidentally slips up and tells you what’s really going on in South Carolina’s crazy-spending General Assembly. This week, it was State Rep. Nathan Ballentine – although it’s kinda hard to call it “accidental” seeing as Ballentine wrote [...]

CITY BECOMES THIRD MUNICIPALITY IN THE SOUTH TO PASS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION STATUTE
FITSNews – March 7, 2008 – Yeah, please don’t ask us what we were doing reading 365gay.com this morning. We really don’t have a good explanation for that, except to say that a certain someone on our staff has yet to grasp the distinction between full-on [...]

TROOP LEADER INTERCEDED ON BEHALF OF OFFICER WHO USED RACIAL SLUR
FITSNews – March 6, 2008 – The bizarre story surrounding last week’s resignation of South Carolina’s top two public safety officials took another strange turn today.
Sources have confirmed to FITSNews that the controversial punishment handed down to a white officer who used a racial slur and threatened to kill [...]