Fiscally liberal "Republican" Alan Clemmons won't run for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district, the veteran state lawmaker told The (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Sun News over the weekend. "We have decided, and we have been thinking in the direction, (that) my running for Congress is
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Myrtle Beach, S.C. author, TV host and social media starlet Mande Wilkes made it official on Thursday - she's running for the U.S. House of Representatives. The provocative local personality (and favorite of coastal Tea Partiers) has pledged to run an unscripted campaign for the state's newly-drawn
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Florence attorney Jay Jordan will announce his candidacy for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district on November 1, multiple sources familiar with his intentions tell FITSNews. Jordan will become the third announced candidate for the district - even though the U.S. Justice Department
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Since the "known" Republican candidates for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district - a.k.a. Andre Bauer, Alan Clemmons and Thad Viers - are all so pathetic, it's not surprising that numerous other lesser-known candidates are looking at jumping into this race. Some of them - like
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S.C. Gov. Andre Bauer made his intentions official this week - he's running for the newly-drawn South Carolina seventh congressional district. Bauer's announcement comes as no surprise. FITS exclusively reported on his interest in the seat two months ago - interest which Bauer confirmed to the mainstream
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Former S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has confirmed reports first published on FITS six weeks ago regarding his interest in running for the U.S. Congress. Bauer, 42, told Adam Beam of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper that he is "seriously considering" mounting a bid for South Carolina's newly-drawn
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Former S.C. Gov. David Beasley - a Democrat-turned-Republican who was bounced from the governor's office after one term back in 1998 - is reportedly considering a campaign for the newly-drawn seventh congressional district. Sources close to Beasley said they would be "surprised" if the rumors were
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We knew that coastal South Carolina Tea Party favorite Mande Wilkes - whose irreverent tweets and web postings keep us continually informed and aroused - was going to run an unconventional campaign for the U.S. Congress. We had no idea, however, that the newly-published author would get this unconventional
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The worst-kept secret in South Carolina politics over the last year has been the fact that fiscally liberal "Republican" state lawmaker Alan Clemmons was mounting a bid for the U.S. Congress. In fact, Clemmons drew a congressional district (South Carolina's new seventh district) in a deliberate effort
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Carroll A. "Tump Tump" Campbell III - the intellectually incurious "fortunate son" who failed in his bid to capture South Carolina's first congressional district a year ago - will be giving the whole Congress thing another go in 2012. Sources tell FITS that Campbell will run for the seventh congressional
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Hartsville, S.C. Mayor Mel Pennington is reportedly considering running for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district, sources tell FITS. Elected in 2008, Pennington has impressed fiscal conservatives in the Pee Dee (believe it or not, there are actually a few of those) with his
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In a thoroughly unsurprising announcement, S.C. Rep. Thad Viers became the first politician to formally declare himself a candidate for South Carolina's newly-created seventh congressional district on Thursday. Wait ... already? Seriously ... the U.S. Justice Department hasn't even signed off on
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