Dear concerned South Carolinian, Are you sick of career politicians saying one thing at home but doing the opposite in Columbia? Are you tired of politicians “watching out” for your money while really just padding their own pockets? You deserve better. As the primary draws nearer we need
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SC Spending: The More Things “Change”
To hear the mainstream media tell it, South Carolina's budget for the current fiscal year is roughly $5.5 billion. The only problem? The scribes in the legacy press don't count the $8.5 billion in federal money appropriated to our various state agencies - or the $8.1 billion in "other funds" that's
Read story »SC Lawmakers Get Pension Perks
S.C. Sen. David Thomas (RINO-Greenville) has become the national poster boy for elected officials gaming state pension systems in order to give themselves exorbitant pension benefits not available to other government workers. Thomas was featured prominently Friday in a USA Today special report on
Read story »Leatherman Sounds Tax Hike Trumpet
S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman - the Palmetto state's "Godfather of Pork" - sounded the tax hike trumpet during a publicly-funded trip to Arizona this week. While attending the National Conference of State Legislatures fall forum in Phoenix (on your dime), Leatherman declared that disproportionately
Read story »Twits For Twats In SC 4
By FITSNews || If you're looking for an example of everything that's wrong with South Carolina politics, look no further than the Republican primary for the fourth congressional district - which is supposed to be the most "conservative" congressional district in the Palmetto State. Basically, this race
Read story »The “Mark Of Rudy”
By FITSNews || Try as we might, we've never understood the visceral hatred that some Republicans feel for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In fact, "Hizzoner" was one of our favorite GOP presidential candidates in 2008, although let's be honest - that's not really saying much, is it? Between
Read story »Glenn McConnell’s Cigarette Tax Two-Step
By FITSNews || We've got to hand it to S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell ... In a state where the average politician is 100 percent full of sh*t, he's pushing the envelope well past the known bounds of B.S. An expert at manipulating the procedural rules of the S.C. Senate to grow government
Read story »SC Senate Poised To Expand Cigarette Tax Hike
By FITSNews || Because it wouldn't be South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" General Assembly without one chamber trying to "out-tax" the other, the S.C. Senate is looking to expand on the thirty cent per pack tax hike that passed the S.C. House of Representatives on an anonymous voice vote earlier
Read story »Props For Peeler
By FITSNews || In case you haven't noticed, we bash the "Republican" leadership in both chambers of the S.C. General Assembly on a daily basis around here ... and deservedly so. They've run the Palmetto state into the ground ever since taking over (or switching parties, as is often the case), and
Read story »Christina Jeffrey: Controversial Comments Resurface
By FITSNews || A South Carolina Congressional candidate is in hot water Monday after several controversial remarks resurfaced from her past on a popular political blog. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican who is running for the Palmetto State's Fourth Congressional District (which includes GOP strongholds
Read story »Battle Stations!
A day after bashing the media and his political opponents and refusing to answer questions about the multiple scandals enveloping him, S.C. Gov. Whiny McWhinerson ... err, Mark Sanford ... is ditching his "Forgiveness Tour" to go on the warpath against his enemies. Sanford will hold a "media availability"
Read story »Shakeup In Fourth Congressional Race
The crowded Republican primary race for South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District could be getting a little less crowdeder ... or something. Do we care? No. Seriously, our interest in this "Battle of Right Wing Mouth Breathers" extends only insofar as there is a certain segment of our audience
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