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Former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford has retained longtime “Republican in Name Only” Wesley Donehue to advise him in the crowded GOP primary for the Palmetto State’s first congressional district. In fact Donehue’s firm is not only providing strategic and communications counsel to Sanford, they designed the former governor’s 2013 website.
Take a look …
Why is this [...]
FEDERAL GRAND JURY ZEROES IN ON CORRUPT CABAL
A federal grand jury investigating the infamous “Lexington Ring” will meet next week in Columbia, S.C., sources tell FITS. Its goal? To get one of the central players in the ring’s illegal video poker operation to spill the beans on the cabal of crooked cops and corrupt politicians.
According to [...]
2009 SHOOTING COULD “RAISE THE STAKES” FOR GAMBLING OPERATION
The rapidly unfolding saga of the “Lexington Ring” – a corrupt cabal of politicians and law enforcement officers who are allegedly running an illegal video poker operation out of Lexington County, S.C. – could be on the verge of jumping to a higher energy level.
A murderous level [...]
NO, WE’RE NOT MIXING OUR SONGS UP …
As much as we’re supposed to … we can’t hate S.C. Sen. Jakie Knotts (RINO-Lexington). Sure he’s a fiscal liberal. And sure he’s all sorts of shady (in addition to providing plenty of shade wherever he waddles), but he’s never done us wrong. Fact he may have even [...]
LEXINGTON COUNTY STATE SENATE RACE HEATS UP EARLY
Less than 24 hours after the S.C. Election Commission confirmed that Lexington County GOP activist Katrina Shealy would appear on the November 2012 ballot as a petition candidate for the S.C. Senate, bumper stickers accusing her opponent of being a racist began appearing in the district.
“Dump racist Jake [...]
Lexington, SC – Former Lt. Governor Andre’ Bauer was honored in a ceremony today by Lexington County Recreation & Aging Commission naming its senior center in Batesburg-Leesville the “Andre’ Bauer Senior Center.”
Senator Jake Knotts spoke highly of Mr. Bauer’s accomplishments as Lt. Governor and of his life-long commitment to the seniors of South Carolina.
Batesburg-Leesville Mayor, [...]
Because they’ve presumably grown tired spending hundreds of millions of dollars in new money, South Carolina Senators took a break from their pork fest this week to debate … Twitter?
That’s right …
The discussion began when S.C. Sen. Mike Rose (R-Dorchester) took the floor to demand the resignation of Phil Bailey, a Democratic operative who landed [...]
Dear Will,
With only seven days left in the legislative session South Carolina school choice hangs in the balance. For the past six months FreedomWorks activists and local groups have been working tirelessly to pass H.4894, a meaningful education reform bill that will help to improve South Carolina’s failing schools.
After much hard work school choice passed [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT …
The website BuzzFeed scored a nice South Carolina political scoop this week when it obtained exclusive video footage of S.C. Sen. Jakie Knotts (RINO-Lexington) calling then-State Rep. Nikki Haley a “raghead.” This incident – and the intense backlash it spawned – helped propel Haley to the Republican gubernatorial nomination nearly [...]
STATE SENATE NEEDS TO STOP PLAYING POLITICS WITH STRUCTURAL REFORM
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley took to her Facebook page this week to blast members of the South Carolina Senate for playing politics with government restructuring legislation. Specifically, Haley chided Senators for passing an amendment sponsored by one of her longtime antagonists that would postpone one long-overdue [...]
Dear Will ,
The South Carolina Senate is playing politics with the future of thousands of South Carolina students. The House passed historic school choice bill H.4894 last month, but the Senate is holding the bill hostage, with some members trying to delay a vote until the end of the session in June.
If they are successful H.4894 will [...]
On the same day that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley attempted (unsuccessfully, we might add) to put a major open records scandal behind her, one of her political allies attempted to make transparency an issue in their campaign.
Katrina Shealy – a former Lexington County GOP official who is running for the State Senate seat held by [...]
