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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With South Carolina's U.S. Congressional delegation staking out a strong fiscally conservative reputation in Washington, D.C., it's only natural that GOP candidates for the newly-drawn seventh congressional district are looking to prove that they fit the mold. In fact, even before the "debt dereliction"
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For those of you who don't speak "Snoop," that headline might not make much sense to you ... and for those of you who do speak "Snoop," you may be wondering why we left off the "m'nizzle." D'Bricka$haw feels us, though (what what ...) Anyway, that headline is how the famous gangsta rapper Snoop
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S.C. Sen. Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) - the most prominent fiscal conservative in the Palmetto state - said this week that he would not run for a seventh U.S. congressional district in the event such a district is created in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Davis has been an aggressive supporter of a Lowcountry-based
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The S.C. Senate on Tuesday approved a redistricting plan that would put the state's newest congressional seat in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The surprise vote is the latest drama associated with the decennial redrawing of electoral maps in the Palmetto state - and increases the likelihood that a panel
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As evidenced by his recent showdown with S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, Senate President Glenn McConnell isn't afraid to go "all in" when it comes to high stakes political poker ... of course it's probably pretty easy to bet the house when you've got the state's Chief Justice in your back pocket, isn't it? Anyway,
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In her first-ever bid for political office last summer, Myrtle Beach newcomer Mande Wilkes came within 400 votes of knocking off an incumbent state lawmaker. Rather than challenging S.C. Rep. Nelson Hardwick again, however, she's setting her sights higher in 2012 ... on the U.S. Congress. On Wednesday,
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Don't call it a comeback ... Contrary to the public pronouncements of top S.C. lawmakers - including S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons (RINO-Myrtle Beach) - S.C. Rep. David Mack (D-Charleston) is very much still kickin' it. The Lowcountry lawmaker - who has served in the House since 1997 - was reportedly
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It's not often that we get text messages from elected officials referring to their opponents as "ass clowns" and "fluffers," but Thad Viers - for better or worse - is no ordinary politician. In fact, "ass clown" and "fluffer" are practically terms of endearment coming from this guy- who a few years
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Forget Atlas Shrugged. Or the "Austrian school" of economics. S.C. Rep. Thad Viers (R-Myrtle Beach) has boiled his ideology down much more succinctly. Here's a recent entry from Viers' Twitter page: Why am I a conservative dork? had lunch at Sam's club for a $1.67 tax included! That included a large
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