In case you missed it, South Carolina state government was closed on May 10 for Confederate Memorial Day. That’s right … while the rest of us busted our asses trying to make ends meet in this economic “recovery,” hundreds of thousands of underworked, overpaid bureaucrats got another day off.
Confederate Memorial Day was established in 2000. Along [...]
SC Celebrates “Happy White People Day”
SC Taxpayers: Still Paying For Confederate Crap
For at least the thirteenth year in a row, South Carolina taxpayers are shelling out $500,000 on a collection of Confederate artifacts which should have been paid for years ago. And not only that – lawmakers have agreed “to provide funds in future fiscal years” to continue paying for this nonsense (an expense taxpayers should [...]
The Hunley: Enough Already!
It’s been more than a dozen years since the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from the floor of Charleston harbor.
Since then tens of millions of South Carolina tax dollars have been spent on this sub – a massive investment which continues today via Clemson University’s so-called “Restoration Institute.”
Why would South Carolinians pay such exorbitant [...]
Hunley Educrat (And Stephen Colbert’s Sister) Running For Congress
ELIZABETH COLBERT-BUSCH TO SEEK DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR FIRST DISTRICT SEAT
It turns out there was a “mystery Democratic candidate” for the South Carolina first congressional district after all … the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.
Weeks ago FITS reached out to several of our Democratic sources asking if the party had any prospects for the seat being [...]
No Laffey Matter
Last summer – shortly before the Mark Sanford sex scandal sucked all of the oxygen out of Palmetto state politics – we wrote a post blasting soon-to-be-former State Treasurer Converse Chellis for his decision to lend a private maritime museum $9.2 million.
Joined by S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman and House Ways and Means Chairman [...]
Streamline This, McConnell
In a largely ignored (for good reason) news release last week, S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell announced the reintroduction of legislation that would create a taxpayer-funded “Streamlining Commission and Council on Efficient Government” in South Carolina.
“It is vitally important that we undertake this review as soon as possible,” McConnell said in the release. “It [...]
The Phallic Obsession Continueth
With record unemployment, depressed income levels, stagnant investment, declining academic achievement and rampant crime, obesity and disease, it’s good to know that the State of South Carolina has plenty of cash to blow on a powerful lawmaker’s pet project.
Taxpayer-funded workers on the H.L. Hunley confederate submarine, which has been the publicly-paid for phallic obsession of [...]
Hunley Vibrators Should Be Hopping Off The Shelves
For those of you unfamiliar with this website, our founding editor has a deep and abiding hatred for any taxpayer-funded expense related to the H.L. Hunley, the confederate submarine that famously sank in Charleston harbor in 1864 – and was even more famously raised 136 years later.
Frankly, South Carolina would be much better off financially [...]
Oops, Scoop
In its rush to bash S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford for “waste” in his Cabinet, the website Palmetto Scoop forgot something.
Specifically, the website’s authors neglected to “flush out” the turd-colored Confederate submarine that’s sitting in a glorified taxpayer-funded toilet down in Charleston, S.C.
Hold up … what are we talking about?
Glad you asked. Here’s the skinny …
In [...]
Confederate Evasion
An eight year odyssey of evasion finally ended last month when a judge ordered S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell and Warren Lasch’s “Friends of the Hunley” group to pay $140,000 in court costs to Greenville, S.C. government watchdog Ned Sloan, the prevailing party in one of our state’s most significant open records lawsuits.
The story of [...]
