S.C. Senator Billy O’Dell (RINO-Abbeville) has been admitted to a hospital in Greenwood, S.C. for pneumonia, multiple sources have confirmed to FITS.
Prior to being admitted, the 74-year-old lawmaker complained to friends and family about what he believed to be a bad allergic reaction to the springtime pollen, although doctors quickly diagnosed it as something more [...]
SC State Senator Hospitalized
SC Senators Introduce Data Protection Bill
Columbia, SC – February 7, 2013 – South Carolinians will have their data protected as never before under a new bill introduced yesterday by Senators Kevin Bryant and Billy O’Dell.
In light of the recent Department of Revenue Cyber Security Breach, a special Senate committee was formed, headed up by Senators Bryant and O’Dell. The two [...]
Props To 2012 SC Senate Taxpayer Heroes
TOO BAD THERE ARE ONLY THREE OF THEM …
This website is quick to anger, slow to praise – a reputation we relish. Seriously … why should we bend over backward thanking politicians for doing things they ought to be doing?
Protecting freedom, free markets and future prosperity is something we view as a sacred obligation. Not something you [...]
2012: The “Lost Cycle”
SC “REFORM” MOVEMENT ON ITS DEATHBED
For those of you who haven’t noticed, this website hasn’t exactly been chomping at the bit to endorse candidates in the 2012 legislative elections here in South Carolina.
Why not? Because this year’s election is a total farce … and that was true long before the S.C. Supreme Court tossed more [...]
FreedomWorks Rally At S.C. State House
Dear Will,
The South Carolina Senate is playing politics with the future of thousands of South Carolina students. The House passed historic school choice bill H.4894 last month, but the Senate is holding the bill hostage, with some members trying to delay a vote until the end of the session in June.
The numbers don’t lie. Despite [...]
FreedomWorks: SC Senate Playing Games
Dear Will ,
The South Carolina Senate is playing politics with the future of thousands of South Carolina students. The House passed historic school choice bill H.4894 last month, but the Senate is holding the bill hostage, with some members trying to delay a vote until the end of the session in June.
If they are successful H.4894 will [...]
SC Club For Growth Targets Top RINO
S.C. Sen. Billy O’Dell – a party-switching fiscal liberal whose ideological allegiance to our state’s failed status quo is emblematic of “Republican” rule in South Carolina – is getting slammed by the S.C. Club for Growth in a new web video.
In addition to his support for soaring budgets and stimulus funding, the ad slams O’Dell [...]
Club For Growth Email Targets Billy O’Dell
Dear concerned South Carolinian,
Have you ever heard the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”? It’s a phrase that means there is more to someone than meets the eye.
Did you know that there is a wolf in sheep’s clothing representing you? For years, Senator Billy O’Dell has been saying one thing at home, but doing another [...]
SC Senate: Back To The Future?
One of the most self-serving, fiscally-liberal, morally-bankrupt politicians ever to take the floor of the South Carolina Senate (and trust us … that’s saying something) wants to come back after a four-year hiatus.
John Hawkins (RINO-Spartanburg) – a left-leaning personal injury lawyer who retired from State Senate in 2009 – will run for the Senate seat [...]
Greg Ryberg Won’t Run Again
Greg Ryberg – a curmudgeony, confrontational presence in the S.C. State Senate for the last two decades – will not seek reelection in 2012, according to The Aiken Standard.
“It has been a reward to have 20 years of service. The next 20 I’m going to spend with my wife and family,” the irascible lawmaker told [...]
Club: Seven “Republican” Senators Bring Back B&CB
Friends,
There is good news and bad news.
The good news is that on Tuesday the Senate, in a historic vote, finally eliminated the archaic Budget and Control Board. In its place they voted to implement a sensible structure similar to the one used by the forty-nine other states.
Senators Davis and Massey, who helped author this amendment, were [...]
SC’s Sagging Income Levels
While S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and the “Republican-controlled” General Assembly in South Carolina continue to grow government at recklessly exorbitant levels, the ability of Palmetto State taxpayers to pick up this soaring tab continues to shrink.
According to data published by the U.S. Census, South Carolina’s median household income fell to $42,018 in 2010 (from an [...]
