By FITSNews || Columbia attorney Steve Benjamin won the Capital City (S.C.) mayoral race on Tuesday, defeating city councilman Kirkman Finlay III in a heated runoff election that was marred by allegations of vote-buying. Benjamin becomes the first African-American mayor in Columbia's history, as well
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Ruh-Roh, Steve Benjamin …
By FITSNews || We can't vouch for the accuracy of the Columbia (S.C.) City Paper. Hell, we weren't even sure the rag was still in existence. Last time we checked they were slightly to the left of the town's real alternative weekly ... which itself is slightly to the left of the town's mainstream
Read story »The Black Vote = Power!
By FITSNews || Supporters of Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Benjamin didn't mince words when they bombarded African-American churches in the city with sample ballots prior to this week's elections. We did it in 2008 by electing our first African-American President Barak Obama. We CAN do it AGAIN
Read story »Columbia Mayoral Race: It’s Benjamin V. Finlay
By FITSNews || The polls predicted a tight race ... and they didn't lie. The top three candidates in the City of Columbia's hotly-contested 2010 mayoral race fought to within six points of each other on Tuesday, with Columbia attorney Steve Benjamin and City Councilman Kirkman Finlay edging past Columbia
Read story »Benjamin’s Transparency Doesn’t Extend To Budget
By FITSNews || City of Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Benjamin has built much of his "hope and change"-themed campaign around the notion of government transparency, but some are beginning to wonder whether his promised "sunlight" will reach into what has become the city's "heart of darkness"
Read story »Mayor Bob Is Out
Bowing to a reality that we felt was self-evident from the moment Steve Benjamin announced his candidacy, longtime Columbia S.C. mayor Bob Coble announced Monday that he will not seek a sixth term as Mayor of the Palmetto State's Capital City. That means that come April of 2010, Columbia will have
Read story »Columbia’s Dilly-Dallying Costing State Millions
When it comes to sheer government ineptitude, the city of Columbia, S.C. is giving the jokers at the S.C. State House a run for their money - not to mention costing the state millions of dollars in the process. Seriously, people ... if there is a more incompetent municipality in South Carolina (well,
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