S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley refused to join her fiscally conservative colleagues in demanding a recorded vote on final passage of the 2008-09 state budget, several lawmakers tell FITS. The former state lawmaker - who made "on the record" voting the hallmark of her 2010 candidacy - was approached by conservative
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It sounds like the name of a barber shop quartet, doesn't it? Anyway, as we reported on Tuesday a group of S.C. lawmakers led by Rep. Kris Crawford and Sen. Kevin Bryant are mounting an effort to "draft" U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) into running for president in 2012. (To read our original
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Business leaders in South Carolina are closely watching the Pee Dee region of the state as "organizers" from the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (a.k.a. UAW) attempt to unionize Johnson Control employees. In fact a big vote is looming this week, which has
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The S.C. Chamber of Communists ... err, Commerce ... has released its 2010 legislative scorecards, and not surprisingly some of the state's most liberal lawmakers were given high marks for their "pro-business" voting record. Seriously, people ... when the state's "Godfather of Pork" (a.k.a. Sen. Hugh
Read story »By FITSNews || Eric Bedingfield doesn't look (or sound) the part of a principled reformer. He's a good ole boy ... and in South Carolina that invariably means he's all about corruption, hypocrisy and wasting your tax dollars. But while Bedingfield walks and talks like a typical "Columbia joker,"
Read story »By FITSNews || It happens next to never, but every once in a blue moon the flaming fiscal liberals and anti-free market forces who run the S.C. General Assembly get something right ... Believe it or not, it happened earlier this week when the S.C. Senate - typically ruled by a clueless RINOcrat majority
Read story »By FITSNews || S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell's massive command economic bill - which we've dubbed "The Kremlinator" - was approved overwhelmingly by the S.C. House of Representatives last week, proving conclusively that if you attach a small tax cut to a massive government power grab, Republicans
Read story »Stop the presses ... South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" General Assembly includes only a handful of lawmakers who actually vote in keeping with the GOP's fiscally-conservative rhetoric - one reason state government has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade while the Palmetto State's
Read story »Listen to Bedingfield's interview below. State Rep. Eric Bedingfield and Sic Willie discuss unions, parental choice and which one of them wore the cooler football jersey. [podcast]http://www.fitsnews.com/wp-content/radio/FITS_bedingfield.mp3[/podcast] S.C. Rep. Eric Bedingfield is impossible
Read story »New website. New show. It's a new era of FITS, people ... and we don't have a clue if any of it's going to work. Nonetheless, State Rep. Eric Bedingfield (R-Greenville) has agreed to be our inaugural guinea pig for "Face Off with FITS," a radio program that will one day assume undisputed command and
Read story »We just got a press release from ... well, us. Actually, somebody forwarded it to us from Pitch Engine, which is a service we apparently use whenever we've got news. Here it is: FITSNews, South Carolina’s biggest political website, today announced it is launching a new, radio program entitled
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