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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We take anything published on SC Hotline with the proverbial ocean of salt, but given the heat that's on S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell following his recent botched robo-call (the latest skirmish in the South Carolina GOP's ongoing civil war) ... it's possible that he could really be facing a new threat
Read story »By FITSNews || For all of S.C. Speaker Bobby Harrell's talk of transparency in government, his S.C. House of Representatives voted to raise the cigarette tax anonymously this week. That's right ... there was no recorded vote by lawmakers on the section of the state budget that included a 30-cent-per-pack
Read story »Unlike the comment itself, the furor that ensued when a prominent S.C. Republican activist referred to U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama as being descended from apes is completely understandable - which is why the people who have called us questioning our decision to break the story have all gotten the
Read story »A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an "ancestor" of First Lady Michelle Obama. The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about
Read story »While South Carolinians fret the spread of "swine flu" from Mexico, we've been able to isolate a particularly dangerous strain of this porcine pandemic. And no, it's not the "probable cases" of actual pig flu found in Newberry, S.C., we're talking about the swine flu that continues to infect our S.C.
Read story »Lawmakers at the S.C. State House are jokingly calling it the "Andre for Governor" bill, but it's not the overtly political elevation of Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer to lead some ridiculous new governmental entity that concerns us most, it's the potential for this entity (controlled by legislative appointments,
Read story »A South Carolina lawmaker who made national headlines last year by prominently displaying a racist flyer on his desk is soliciting money for a new political action committee, FITS has learned. S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer - who colleagues say reveled in the attention that came from being linked to a flyer
Read story »South Carolina's Republican "leadership" in the S.C. House of Representatives isn't known for doing many things right - hence the current condition of our state and our abysmal national rankings in pretty much every category that matters. Accordingly, we were quite surprised to see House Speaker Bobby
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