By FITSNews || It's about time ... Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have launched a joint probe into one of the most clear-cut "pay-to-play" scams we've ever seen - a coastal S.C. campaign finance scandal that is now being linked to terms like
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Haley’s Lead On Sheheen Sliced In Half
By FITSNews || She's still cruising, but S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley's lead over State Senator Vincent Sheheen in the Palmetto state's gubernatorial race has been sliced in half over the past two weeks - at least that's according to polling data released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. Haley obliterated U.S.
Read story »Haley Batters Barrett
By FITSNews || State Rep. Nikki Haley is South Carolina's newly-minted GOP gubernatorial nominee after crushing U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in the Palmetto state's GOP runoff on Tuesday. It's the latest high point in what has been a meteoric rise for Haley, who just two months ago was languishing
Read story »SC Votes: 2010 Runoff Results
By FITSNews || South Carolina Republicans went to the polls today to choose their nominees for Governor, Lt. Governor, Superintendent of Education and Attorney General - as well as their nominees for three U.S House seats and five State House seats. Here are the results ... (Keep hitting refresh
Read story »How Bad Will Haley Beat Barrett?
By FITSNews || It's a foregone conclusion that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley will trounce U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in Tuesday's Republican runoff election, but how big will her margin of victory be? Haley ran away from Barrett two weeks ago by a 49-22 percent margin and has since picked up the endorsement
Read story »Haley’s Transparency Problem Just Got More Expensive
By FITSNews || S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley earned $40,500 in additional unreported consulting income from an engineering firm with taxpayer-funded contracts, The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper reported on Monday. Previously, only $2,000 of Haley's consulting income from the Columbia, S.C.-based firm -
Read story »Another Transparency Headache For Haley
By FITSNews || It's a foregone conclusion at this point that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley will defeat U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett on Tuesday to become the Republican nominee for governor in 2010. Seriously ... it's enough to make you wonder why we're even having a runoff? Oh right ... there are other races
Read story »Endorsement: Haley For Governor
By FITSNews || So let's get this straight ... we know for a fact that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley is lying through her teeth every time she denies our founding editor's claim that she had an "inappropriate physical relationship" with him in the Spring of 2007. On top of that, we also know for a fact that
Read story »Affair Rumors Hit SC Lieutenant Governor’s Race
By FITSNews || Looks like the affair rumors aren't limited to the top of the GOP ticket in South Carolina ... As both Nikki Haley and Gresham Barrett continue to fend off allegations of infidelity in the GOP gubernatorial runoff, the tabloid scrutiny that has consumed that race could be spilling over
Read story »Barrett Hammers Haley On Transparency
By FITSNews || U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett continued his Quixotic efforts to make a race of the Republican gubernatorial runoff on Wednesday, hammering front-runner Nikki Haley on her signature issue - transparency. Haley - who has built her statewide profile (and gubernatorial campaign) around the
Read story »Haley Up Twenty Points … On Sheheen
By FITSNews || Assuming she wins the Republican gubernatorial nomination next Tuesday (which is sort of like assuming the sun will come up next Tuesday), S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley will enter the general election against Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen with a commanding lead. According
Read story »“Gresham Quixote” Continues Quest
By FITSNews || Like Miguel de Cervantes' famous protagonist El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (a.k.a. Don Quixote), U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett certainly appears to be a knight-errant on a fool's errand. With S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley poised to trounce him on June 22 to capture the Republican
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