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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S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard habitually used campaign funds to pay for personal expenses (and then lied about it to ethics investigators) - conduct which has landed him in front of a grand jury facing indictment and possible removal from office. Meanwhile S.C. Rep. Brian White (RINO-Anderson), chairman of
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Author and local television host Mande Wilkes promised to run an unconventional campaign for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district - and she's been true to her word thus far. This week, however, she signaled her support for an idea that's been receiving tremendous mainstream
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S.C. Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler (RINO-Cherokee) has made a career out of sitting on the fence, but it's looking increasingly like that won't be an option for him as the hottest of Palmetto political hot potatoes has landed in his lap. In response to a request from S.C. Sen. Vincent Sheheen
Read story »There's a line in our founding editor's forthcoming book in which he refers to his own ego as being "scarcely containable within the state of South Carolin's 31,189 square miles." Critics of S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown (D-Winnsboro) would probably say that the same description fits this cocky second-term
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The Occupy Columbia movement - such as it is - is supposed to be leaderless. It was also supposed to gradually fade away into irrelevance given its dwindling numbers and lack of a cohesive agenda. That's not the case anymore. Walid Nicola Hakim (pictured above with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
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