S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown (D-Fairfield) will not seek a third term in the S.C. House of Representatives, the 25-year-old lawmaker announced on Wednesday. "It was a tough decision to come to," Brown said, telling FITS that his decision to step down was motivated by his desire to pursue a law degree. Brown
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When it comes to passing meaningful reform legislation, S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell has always been, as the saying goes, as "useless as tits on a bull." Occasionally he'll talk a good game, but that's all it's ever been - talk. Of course when it comes to winning palace intrigues and delivering
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DEMOCRAT PUSHES TERM LIMITS, MORE DISCLOSURE, TOUGHER ETHICS LAWS As he said he would last fall, S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown (D-Fairfield) has rolled out an ambitious ethics reform agenda for lawmakers to consider during the 2012 session of the S.C. General Assembly. Will the "Republican-controlled" House
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Take two, S.C. Democrats ... After a bitter internal power struggle between old and new (and black and white) factions of the South Carolina Democratic Party, S.C. Rep. Bakari Sellers has been chosen to deliver the Democratic response to S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's 2012 State of the State address. Sellers
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Clearing the Air on the State of the State Response COLUMBIA, S.C. - It has come to light that a prominent blogger and the Democratic Party have both released inaccurate information regarding the selection of the 2012 respondent to Governor Nikki Haley's State of the State Address. The voters of South
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S.C. House Minority Leader Harry Ott (D - St.Matthews) is waging war against an up-and-coming Democratic lawmaker and his own party chairman in an effort to protect a speaking slot that he intends to use as a springboard for his 2014 gubernatorial campaign. In fact, Ott wants to give the Democratic
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Fractured, splintered, riven, torn ... all of these are words that could be used to describe the S.C. Republican establishment, which is currently in the midst of a deeply contentious internal power struggle between Tea Partiers, "values" votes and longtime partisans (one that's playing out on the national
Read story »Columbia, SC -- This morning, the South Carolina Democratic Party announced that State Representative Boyd Brown of Winnsboro will deliver the Democratic response to Nikki Haley's 2012 State of the State address. Brown, 25, is in his second term in the state legislature, and has become known as a
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The Democratic Representative who was derisively referred to as the "Lawmaker of Five Points" by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley last month will deliver his party's rebuttal to her State of the State address, FITS has learned. S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown - who was profiled in this FITS piece - will give the official
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In the wake of a legislative whitewash of her "Savannah River Sellout," S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley went on the offensive Thursday - alleging that Senate hearings into her recent betrayal of our state's economic and environmental interests were nothing more than a political circus engineered by her 2010 gubernatorial
Read story »FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2011 Contact Boyd Brown: 803-718-2992 Today, in response to Governor Nikki Haley labeling him with a petty title of “Legislator of Five Points,” State Representative Boyd Brown responded with this: “Tell the Governor that I’m the representative from Fairfield
Read story »LIBERALS LAUNCHED FIRST PETITION DRIVE TO RECALL HALEY, THIS TIME CONSERVATIVES ARE REPORTEDLY GETTING IN ON THE ACTION Several conservative state lawmakers tell FITS that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is the target of yet another recall petition - only this time the impetus for the "movement" is coming from
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