FISCAL LIBERALS DOMINATE PALMETTO STATE’S “GOP-CONTROLLED” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Last week we took a look at the abysmal scores recorded by “Republican” members of the S.C. Senate on the S.C. Club for Growth’s 2012 legislative scorecards. This week we look at the scores put up by the S.C. House of Representatives – which is also controlled (in [...]
Inside The (Anonymous) Cigarette Tax Vote
By FITSNews || For all of S.C. Speaker Bobby Harrell’s talk of transparency in government, his S.C. House of Representatives voted to raise the cigarette tax anonymously this week.
That’s right … there was no recorded vote by lawmakers on the section of the state budget that included a 30-cent-per-pack hike on cigarettes.
Fortunately, lawmakers were forced [...]
