Legislation helping low-income and disabled students attend independent schools has passed out of the South Carolina’s House of Representatives by a vote of 65 to 49.
“Parents have the most information and best motivation to make decisions for their own children,” explained Representative Eric Bedingfield (R-Greenville), one of the bill’s chief sponsors. The plan supports low-income [...]
School Choice Bill Passes SC House
Why SC Educrats Are Attacking A Scaled Down Choice Bill
… AND USING YOUR MONEY TO DO IT
As we’ve noted on numerous previous occasions, the parental choice debate in South Carolina is not about kids, or about education, or even about money; it’s about power and prestige for an elite group of taxpayer funded “educators” who claim to speak for your children’s best interests.
It’s also [...]
Fifty-Nine SC House Members Sponsor Parental Choice BIll
COLUMBIA – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Brian White (R-Anderson) and Representative Eric Bedingfield (R-Greenville) are joined by 57 co-sponsors, including House Speaker Bobby Harrell and Majority Leader Kenny Bingham, in the South Carolina House for the latest school choice proposal to be introduced this year in the House.
The bill would provide tax-credited scholarships [...]
SCGOP: Make School Choice A Reality In SC
Dear Fellow Republican,
Our Republican majorities in the South Carolina Senate and House have an historic opportunity to make school choice a reality in South Carolina this year. School Choice has been a plank in our state and national platforms for years – and was an idea that former President Ronald Reagan fought for decades ago.
Over the [...]
Lawmakers: Haley Wouldn’t Back Recorded Budget Vote
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 lawmakers on May 22, 2008 and [...]
The Draft Pencers
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 story, click here).
These lawmakers [...]
Key Union Vote In Pee Dee
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 prompted several opponents of the unionization plan to take [...]
“Communists” Scorecard Released
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 Leatherman) gets a perfect 100 percent score, you know something [...]
SC: We Need More Eric Bedingfields
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,” he sure doesn’t vote that way. In [...]
Credit Where Credit Is Due
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 – voted [...]
The “Kremlinator” Moves Forward
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 will join Democrats in voting for it.
“Sometimes we [...]
