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 »Eric Bedingfield
Face Off: Eric Bedingfield
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 »Calling On … In Transit
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 »Bedingfield To Kick Off FITS Radio
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
Read story »Ebony & Ivory In Concert
S.C. Sen. Robert Ford and Rep. Eric Bedingfield will be "side-by-side on the piano" tomorrow as they join Rep. Tracy Edge and numerous other supporters of parental choice to unveil legislation aimed at expanding educational opportunity in the Palmetto State and fixing our worst-in-the-nation public school
Read story »Robert Ford Is What?
When we saw it in Sunday's Greenville News, we assumed it was a typo. When we saw it again in this morning's Charleston Post & Courier, we rubbed our eyes and did a double take. Then, we almost spit out our vanilla almond breakfast cereal ... which come to think of it might not have been a
Read story »Eric Bedingfield Gets It
Pro-business advocacy groups and various Chambers of Commerce across the nation have spent millions of dollars on consultants and PR pros in an effort to educate the public on how the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" is really a violation of workers' rights and a blatant union-building tool. They
Read story »Leaders Join Reformers On Key Transparency Legislation
The Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives and Majority Leader of the State Senate have joined fiscal conservative reformers in supporting a key transparency initiative - the creation of an online checkbook that would track all taxpayer expenditures over $100. House Speaker Bobby Harrell and
Read story »SC Government Employees Getting Bonuses?
Despite plummeting state revenues and a worsening economic climate, five dozen government employees in South Carolina recently received bonuses totaling nearly $50,000, according to documents obtained by FITSNews. Ironically, some of the folks receiving bonus payments are employed by the State Housing
Read story »SC Lawmakers Grapple With Education Funding
LEGISLATORS NAVIGATING A MASSIVE, IMPENETRABLE THICKET OF BUREAUCRACY-DRIVEN WASTE FITSNews - July 23, 2008 - Several committees charged with examining South Carolina's wasteful and convoluted education funding formulas could end up proposing sweeping changes to the way we pay for our children's
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