Who is Moses Dixon? According to The Florence Morning News (a.k.a. the "Flo-Mo"), he's a 25-year-old "master’s degree candidate at Clark University in Worcester, Mass." who is currently pursuing a career in "community development." He's also a former staffer to ex-U.S. Rep. John Spratt and current
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It's no "join the movement" tour (and he isn't bringing a self-promotional video or giant Congressional report cards with him), but U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney will be hosting a series of town hall meetings across the fifth congressional district next week. For those of you unfamiliar with Mulvaney and
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South Carolina's lame duck U.S. Representatives doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to their staff members during the fourth quarter of 2010, an analysis of congressional pay records shows. Former U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett (RINO-Westminster) who ran unsuccessfully for governor of
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We think the vote to extend Bush-era income tax relief was a no-brainer, but several members of South Carolina's Congressional delegation crossed ideological and party lines to cast unexpected votes both for and against the measure. In the U.S. Senate, Lindsey Graham - a RINO - voted for extending
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We were overjoyed that one of the state's most fiscally-conservative state lawmakers handily defeated a top ally of Barack Obama in South Carolina's fifth congressional district race, but U.S. Rep.-elect Mick Mulvaney's vanquishing of fifteen-term incumbent John Spratt isn't without its unfortunate consequences. Most
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There's another skirmish in the Palmetto state's most notoriously anti-competitive war ... Except this time we're not talking about the losing battle South Carolina is fighting with other port states, we're talking about the latest intra-state port spat between warring South Carolina political factions. Last
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S.C. Senator Mick Mulvaney handily defeated powerful U.S. Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt on Tuesday night in South Carolina's fifth congressional district - withstanding a furious negative campaign from the liberal incumbent to claim a seat that Spratt has held for the past 28 years. In choosing
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(Keep hitting refresh for updated entries …) 12:58 AM - Big night for us here at FITS, too. We had 79,000 hits on our website ... including 13,000 on this "live blog" post. Thanks to everyone for tuning in. 12:35 AM - Sorry ... had to take a break there for a second. 11:56 PM - Not that it
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As polls across South Carolina (and America) open, it's time to gaze into our crystal balls to see if we can get a glimpse of the future ... For example, how big will S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley's margin of victory be over Vincent Sheheen? And what about U.S. Reps. Joe Wilson (RINO) and John Spratt (D)
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In a last-ditch bid to hang onto the Congressional seat he has held for the past 28 years, U.S. Rep. John Spratt is running a pair of "robo calls" telling voters that his Republican opponent Mick Mulvaney stole $30 million from them and wants to raise their grocery taxes. Ironic, isn't it? This coming
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All the polling we've seen coming out of the S.C. fifth congressional district race shows fourteen-term incumbent John Spratt getting a healthy percentage of the Democratic vote - which he better hope holds up if he's going to withstand a furious challenge from fiscally conservative State Senator Mick
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Over the last year few years, this website has made it our business to expose fiscally-liberal GOP politicians at all levels of government - cutting through their hypocritical rhetoric, self-serving partisan identification an obnoxious pandering to an under-informed electorate that the mainstream media
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