SC Senator Probing Data Breach

KEVIN BRYANT WANTS ANSWERS – NOT EXCUSES – FROM NIKKI HALEY
S.C. Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) isn’t buying what Gov. Nikki Haley is selling …
In the wake of an unprecedented state-level security breach, Bryant is questioning the excuses that have been pouring out of the Haley administration.  In fact he’s heading up a new panel that’s [...]

SCDEW “Tax Cut” Claim Challenged

FISCAL CONSERVATIVE SAYS BURDEN ON BUSINESSES WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s scandal-scarred Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is claiming that South Carolina businesses will see a tax decrease in 2013 as the agency pays less money in unemployment benefits.  According to Associated Press reporter Seanna Adcox – who basically parrots whatever information [...]

SC Senator Told To “Back Off” Of Jobless Benefit Investigation

KEVIN BRYANT WARNED NOT TO EXPOSE WASTE, INCOMPETENCE AT CABINET AGENCY 
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s “jobs agency” has consistently been among the most inefficient and ineffective agencies in her administration – a cost that has keeps being passed on to South Carolina businesses and taxpayers.  Now that agency – the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) – [...]

A Veto “Scorecard”

THIS IS WHAT THE “REFORM” MOVEMENT HAS COME TO?
A group calling itself the “Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina” has just released a scorecard ranking members of the S.C. General Assembly on how they voted with respect to Gov. Nikki Haley’s budget vetoes.
They shouldn’t have bothered.
Haley vetoed a totally underwhelming $60-70 million – which accounted [...]

2012: The “Lost Cycle”

SC “REFORM” MOVEMENT ON ITS DEATHBED
For those of you who haven’t noticed, this website hasn’t exactly been chomping at the bit to endorse candidates in the 2012 legislative elections here in South Carolina.
Why not? Because this year’s election is a total farce … and that was true long before the S.C. Supreme Court tossed more [...]

SC Club For Growth Endorses Six Candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Phillip Cease
803-454-1134
June 7, 2010
South Carolina Club for Growth PAC Endorses Six More Candidates
COLUMBIA, SC -Today, South Carolina Club for Growth PAC announced their next endorsements for the 2012 primary season.
“Next week South Carolinians will go to the polls to choose the candidates for November. For too long candidates and incumbents have claimed [...]

Will 2012 “Ballot Fix” Happen?

SHORT ANSWER? PROBABLY NOT …
The big story in South Carolina politics over the last few weeks has been the utter clusterfuck that has befallen our state’s 2012 primary election cycle.
Once again, the Palmetto State has proven that it can’t do anything intelligently … or cleanly.
What happened? Well, as we exclusively reported way back on April [...]

Tom Davis: Profiles In Pro-Taxpayer Courage

By Tom Davis || Each year individuals and political advocacy groups in South Carolina publish legislative scorecards identifying state lawmakers who are “taxpayer heroes,” but the reality is that, with only a few exceptions, those earned grades are not really the consequence of lawmakers exhibiting any particular political courage. Occasionally, however, they do put themselves [...]

Kevin Bryant Blocks Port Deal

S.C. Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) is blocking a proposal that would fund $120 million of a $300 million dredging project for Charleston Harbor with borrowed dollars – and vowing to filibuster the plan on the floor of the State Senate.
“My folks expect not only a good voting record, they expect you to lay down in [...]

Upstate Lawmakers To Host Meeting On Silver Scam

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sen. Kevin Bryant 864-202-8495, Rep. Joshua Putnam
864-238-9431
Sen. Bryant, Rep. Putnam, and U.S. and S.C. Law Enforcement Agencies
Atlantic Bullion and Coin meeting
Monday, March 26, 2012 7pm
Powdersville Campus, Tri-County Technical College
1774 Powdersville Road, Easley South Carolina
Columbia SC – Sen. Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) and Rep. Joshua Putnam (R-Anderson) will host an information gathering session with
constituents [...]

SC Senator Targets “Reformed” Workforce Agency

South Carolina’s old Employment Security Commission was so incompetent and corrupt that lawmakers decided two years ago to move it into the governor’s cabinet. They also gave it a new name – the S.C.Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW).
Problem solved, right?
Wrong … in fact things have actually gotten worse.
In addition to running up an astronomical [...]

Kevin Bryant Holding Town Hall In Anderson, SC

Anderson, SC – Senator Kevin Bryant will be holding a Town Hall meeting on Monday, February 27, to discuss a new bill (S.1169) which gives a special endorsement to veterans on their drivers’ licenses and other Department of Motor Vehicles identifications.
In addition to Senator Bryant, Anderson County Veterans Affairs Officer Samuel Lewis will be present, [...]