S.C. Rep. Jenny Horne (RINO - Dorchester) delivered a bizarre and tearful monologue during the final meeting of a House impeachment subcommittee on Wednesday, ultimately deciding to join all but one of her colleagues in voting against a resolution that would have impeached S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford for
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Panel Ditches Majority Of Charges Against Sanford
All but nine of the thirty-seven ethics violations against S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford have been dismissed by a legislative panel investigating whether or not the second-term Republican governor broke the law relating to travel expenses and campaign reimbursements. It was a victory for the disgraced chief
Read story »Take Us Out To The Impeachment Game
The Importantville Impeachers and Buenos Aires Narcissists battled to a 6-6 tie in Game Whatever of the seemingly interminable 2009 Impeachment Series - an ongoing battle necessitated by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's repeated refusal to resign from his largely ceremonial office. Sanford was caught earlier
Read story »SC House Panel Opens Impeachment Process
The S.C. House of Representatives formally opened hearings Tuesday into whether or not disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford should be impeached. A House Judiciary subcommittee met for almost an hour on the subject, a mostly perfunctory hearing during which lawmakers sparred over whether Sanford's five-day
Read story »Sanford’s “Friendly” Fire
Disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is aggressively recruiting candidates to run in Republican primaries against the GOP sponsors of an impeachment resolution against him, sources tell FITS. In targeting these lawmakers - including one who has supported his policies in the past - the governor is said
Read story »Sanford Confidential: Coming Soon
The S.C. Supreme Court is likely to rule this week on whether a preliminary report by the State Ethics Commission into the administration of embattled Gov. Mark Sanford will become available to the public - and more importantly to the lawmakers who could act as his prosecutors and judges in impeachment
Read story »Harrell Rules Sanford Impeachment “Out Of Order”
A resolution to impeach S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford was ruled out of order by House Speaker Bobby Harrell (RINO-Charleston) during a special legislative session Tuesday, effectively shutting down any impeachment drama until lawmakers reconvene again for a full session in January of next year. The impeachment
Read story »SC Lawmakers Scramble To Script Special Session
South Carolina lawmakers are working feverishly behind the scenes to script the upcoming "special" session of the General Assembly, starting with the document that will govern what lawmakers can (and cannot) take up during their "perfunctory" return to the state capital this week. At the end of each
Read story »Lawyers Stalling Tort Reform Bills
The S.C. Civil Justice Coalition is urging a House subcommittee packed with lawyers and chaired by a prominent workers' compensation attorney to get off the block and do something to protect our state's small businesses from frivolous lawsuits. In a mailing blasted out statewide this week, the Coalition
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