S.C. Rep. Thad Viers (R-Horry) is experiencing a staff shakeup as he campaigns for the newly-drawn South Carolina seventh congressional district - although it's unclear yet who has left his campaign and who remains on board. Rumors of Vier's staff problems were first reported on The Blogland of Earl
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A public relations executive who does extensive work on government-funded projects - including the controversial Interstate 73 boondoggle - is the latest "Republican" candidate running for the newly-drawn South Carolina seventh congressional district. Debbie Harwell - who is also a local radio host
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Yet another politician has jumped into the race for the newly-drawn South Carolina seventh congressional district. Tom Rice - Chairman of Horry County Council - will announce his candidacy on Wednesday via a nine-stop tour of the district, which includes the Grand Strand and Pee Dee regions of the
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Fiscally liberal "Republican" Alan Clemmons won't run for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district, the veteran state lawmaker told The (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Sun News over the weekend. "We have decided, and we have been thinking in the direction, (that) my running for Congress is
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Myrtle Beach, S.C. author, TV host and social media starlet Mande Wilkes made it official on Thursday - she's running for the U.S. House of Representatives. The provocative local personality (and favorite of coastal Tea Partiers) has pledged to run an unscripted campaign for the state's newly-drawn
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Florence attorney Jay Jordan will announce his candidacy for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district on November 1, multiple sources familiar with his intentions tell FITSNews. Jordan will become the third announced candidate for the district - even though the U.S. Justice Department
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Since the "known" Republican candidates for South Carolina's newly-drawn seventh congressional district - a.k.a. Andre Bauer, Alan Clemmons and Thad Viers - are all so pathetic, it's not surprising that numerous other lesser-known candidates are looking at jumping into this race. Some of them - like
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Former S.C. Gov. David Beasley - a Democrat-turned-Republican who was bounced from the governor's office after one term back in 1998 - is reportedly considering a campaign for the newly-drawn seventh congressional district. Sources close to Beasley said they would be "surprised" if the rumors were
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We knew that coastal South Carolina Tea Party favorite Mande Wilkes - whose irreverent tweets and web postings keep us continually informed and aroused - was going to run an unconventional campaign for the U.S. Congress. We had no idea, however, that the newly-published author would get this unconventional
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The worst-kept secret in South Carolina politics over the last year has been the fact that fiscally liberal "Republican" state lawmaker Alan Clemmons was mounting a bid for the U.S. Congress. In fact, Clemmons drew a congressional district (South Carolina's new seventh district) in a deliberate effort
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While her walnut-brained ex-husband mounts yet another bid for the U.S. Congress (which we're hoping fails every bit as spectacularly as his first campaign), political ex Elizabeth Herlong Campbell has moved on with her life. Sources at the Nelson Mullins law firm tell FITS that the 43-year-old Campbell
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Carroll A. "Tump Tump" Campbell III - the intellectually incurious "fortunate son" who failed in his bid to capture South Carolina's first congressional district a year ago - will be giving the whole Congress thing another go in 2012. Sources tell FITS that Campbell will run for the seventh congressional
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