Let’s celebrate the University of South Carolina, people … which is receiving a whopping $944 million in the current budget (and that’s just for its Columbia, S.C. campus).
How does USC spend that money? Well, let’s start with the $125,000 raise it recently gave its president, Harris Pastides. Or the big bucks its law school doled [...]
Yippee! It’s USC Day!
NAACP To Nikki Haley: Don’t Pick Henry McMaster
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL’S “WHITES ONLY” PROBLEM ONCE AGAIN REARS ITS UGLY HEAD
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has been warned by the NAACP not to pick former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster as an interim replacement for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint.
Why not? Because of McMaster’s membership in a “whites only” country club.
In [...]
Tim Scott’s Team Is Measuring The Drapes
… MEANWHILE HIS CHIEF OF STAFF IS JUMPING INTO THE RACE FOR HIS HOUSE SEAT
U.S. Rep. Tim Scott is “99 percent” sure that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is going to appoint him as the interim replacement for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint, sources close to the first-term Congressman tell FITS.
“It’s his,” [...]
The Wire: 12/13/2012
TIPS, COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM FITS READERS
Welcome to “The Wire,” our pseudo-daily effort to respond to the barrage of info we receive on a daily basis here at FITSNews …
What’s in the news today? The ongoing suspense regarding S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s appointment of an interim replacement for the Senate seat being vacated by Jim [...]
Assessing Nikki Haley’s “Short List”
GOVERNOR NARROWS U.S. SENATE FIELD TO FIVE NAMES
Sources close to S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley have provided CNN with her “short list” of possible appointments to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint.
The list – comprised of U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, former S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford, former S.C. Attorney [...]
Nikki Haley: No “Placeholder” For Jim DeMint’s Seat
GOVERNOR SAYS SHE DOESN’T WANT TO “TIE THE NEXT SENATOR’S HANDS”
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will not appoint a “caretaker” – or “placeholder” – for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.
“I do not want to tie the next U.S. Senator from South Carolina’s hands regarding future office,” Haley said in a [...]
Senator Scott?
FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN HIGH ON LIST OF POSSIBLE DEMINT SUCCESSORS
Four years ago, Tim Scott was a county councilman … a month from now, he could be a United States Senator.
The Charleston, S.C. Republican is reportedly high on S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s list of possible successors to U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint – who is resigning his seat [...]
Henry McMaster: The “Caretaker?”
DON’T LAUGH … HE’S AN OPTION
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is seriously considering appointing former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster to the U.S. Senate as a “caretaker” for the seat over the next two years, sources tell FITS.
Haley has until January to appoint an interim replacement for U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint – who is resigning his [...]
Who Will Nikki Haley Pick?
“TRIKKI NIKKI” GETS A TRUMP CARD
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley may be unpopular … but all of a sudden she’s holding a major political trump card.
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s surprise decision to resign his seat as South Carolina’s junior U.S. Senator gives Haley the power to name his interim replacement – and you better believe that [...]
Jim DeMint To Resign From U.S. Senate, Run Think Tank
FISCAL CONSERVATIVE LEADER DROPS BOMBSHELL ON PALMETTO POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint will resign his post as South Carolina’s junior United States Senator to take over the leadership of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.C. think tank.
News of DeMint’s decision – effective was first reported this week by The Wall Street Journal.
“This is an [...]
SC Debt Group Forms
“FIX THE DEBT” GROUP FORMS IN PALMETTO STATE
Former Republican S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster and S.C. Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, a Democrat from Charleston, have joined forces to launch a new grassroots group aimed at drawing attention to our national debt.
The group – Fix the Debt SC – is affiliated with the national Fix the Debt [...]
