GOVERNOR SIGNS ORDER FOR LAW THAT ALREADY EXISTS S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley signed an executive order on Tuesday that she says will prevent striking workers in South Carolina from receiving unemployment benefits. The only problem? State law in South Carolina already forbids striking workers from receiving
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The "Dim Bulb Act of 2011" - legislation sponsored by S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer (RINO-Oconee) - received some national love on Monday from the scholars at the Heritage Foundation. In a blog post on The Foundry, Heritage energy policy analyst Nicolas Loris said that Sandifer's legislation demonstrated
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"Bridget Keeney" is back, people ... Former S.C. Board of Education Chairwoman Kristin Maguire - who resigned her post in 2009 after our website busted her writing incest-themed internet porn under the pen name "Bridget Keeney" - made a memorable appearance at the Pickens County GOP convention on
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The son of a powerful South Carolina lawmaker is reportedly lobbying members of the S.C. General Assembly - asking them to kill a pro-business bill that's likely to come before his father's committee. Several S.C. lawmakers and lobbyists are confirming to FITS that Wes Sandifer - son of liberal Republican
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Forget passing a tax cut, giving parents real choices or restructuring our state's splintered and dysfunctional system of government ... lawmakers in South Carolina have other "bright ideas" about how to spend the 2011 session. According to the Associated Press, S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer (RINO-Oconee)
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Remember that racist flier that was found on the desk of a white South Carolina lawmaker a few years ago? The one that claimed black people were lazy and didn't want to work? Apparently, S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer (RINO-Oconee) isn't alone in his critique of the African-American work ethic ... On
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More than two months after our exclusive report was published, another S.C. news outlet is finally investigating a controversial S.C. legislative junket to Panama that sources say nearly claimed the life of a powerful state lawmaker. The trip, which took place in September 2010, was allegedly marred
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The son of one of South Carolina's most fiscally liberal "Republican" lawmakers has been hired to lobby for a company with extensive business before his father's committee. Wes Sandifer, son of S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer, has reportedly been hired by a Moore and Van Allen, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based
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S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen may have lost the Palmetto state's governor's race last month - but he's still pushing ideas that he believes will make South Carolina's state government more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers it's supposed to serve. Some of them actually will ... On Thursday,
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The worst-kept secret at the S.C. State House is that powerful House Labor, Commerce and Industry (LCI) Chairman Bill Sandifer (R-Oconee) has a drinking problem. A serious drinking problem. We've encountered Sandifer's raging alcoholism on more than one occasion ourselves, although we've done our
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Democrats in South Carolina now hold precisely zero statewide offices, zero U.S. Senate seats and just one of six U.S. Congressional Districts. Meanwhile, they lost a handful of seats this year in the S.C. House of Representatives, which - like the State Senate - already features a solid "Republican"
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Here's S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer - one of the most liberal Republicans ever to waddle into the S.C. State House - getting his alcohol-soaked snooze on at a recent Clemson University football game. Sandifer - whose views on the African-American work ethic made headlines two years ago - is one of the
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