This website has always liked S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford (R-Florence). He’s an asshole, for sure, but he’s typically been our kind of asshole. And his voting record has generally been a notch above the legions of “Republicans in Name Only” at the S.C. State House.
But Crawford has had his issues – most notable his not-so-little [...]
SC Declares War On Midwives
First it was an assault on home school parents … now South Carolina’s “Republican” lawmakers are going after the state’s midwives.
A pair of “GOP” legislators – Kris Crawford of Florence and Phyllis Henderson of Greenville – have introduced the so-called “South Carolina Lay Midwife Act” which would effectively ban home births in the Palmetto State.
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Another SC Lawmaker Didn’t Pay Taxes
For the second time this month, a member of the S.C. General Assembly has been convicted of not paying his income taxes.
S.C. Rep. Harold Mitchell (D-Spartanburg) pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his income taxes from 2005-08. Mitchell was given three years probation and ordered to pay $10,000 in addition to [...]
Kris Crawford Found Guilty On Tax Charges
LAWMAKER MUST PAY $10,000 FINE
S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford (R-Florence) was found guilty this week on four counts of failing to file state income taxes in a timely manner. In addition to the verdict, Crawford was fined $10,000 – but he will not face jail time. It’s not clear how Crawford’s verdict will impact his service [...]
SC House Candidate Arrested … Again
PEE DEE DEMOCRAT LITERALLY “ASKS FOR IT”
Austin Smith, a Democratic nominee for a Florence County seat in the S.C. House of Representatives, has been arrested for the second time this year on alcohol-related charges. Smith, 21, was busted for public drunkenness earlier this week according to SCNow.com.
Oddly enough, Smith’s arrest appears to have been self-induced. [...]
SC House Candidate Arrested
DEMOCRAT BUSTED FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING, INTERFERING WITH POLICE
A candidate for the S.C. House of Representatives was arrested this week after an incident involving alcohol and City of Florence police officers (a combination which obviously didn’t mix well for this would-be elected official).
Austin M. Smith, 20, was charged with underage drinking and interfering with police as [...]
S.C. Attorney General To Retry Kris Crawford Case
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office will retry the tax case of S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford, which ended last month in a mistrial.
Adam Piper, a spokesman for Wilson’s office, confirmed Wilson’s intention to retry the case on Wednesday.
Wilson’s decision isn’t surprising in light of the news that Crawford was one disgruntled juror away from being [...]
Kris Crawford Got Lucky
Do you hate accountants?
S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford does …
In fact, Crawford’s contention from the beginning of his tax tardiness trial has been that his accountant screwed him over. That defense apparently resonated with one of Crawford’s jurors, too. In fact, it was this juror’s abiding disdain of accountants that kept her from going along with [...]
Mistrial In Kris Crawford Case
A Florence County (S.C.) judge has declared a mistrial in the court case of State. Rep. Kris Crawford – the Republican lawmaker accused of failing to pay his taxes in a timely manner.
Jurors deliberated for four hours before sending Circuit Judge Thomas Cooper Jr. a note saying they were deadlocked.
“We haven’t reached a unanimous decision. [...]
Jurors Picked For SC Lawmaker’s Tax Trial
Jurors are being selected this week in the tax trial of S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford, the Republican lawmaker who is being prosecuted by the state’s Attorney General under a particularly broad S.C. Department of Revenue statute.
“A person required under any provision of law administered by the department and who wilfully fails to [...]
The Draft Pencers
It sounds like the name of a barber shop quartet, doesn’t it?
Anyway, as we reported on Tuesday a group of S.C. lawmakers led by Rep. Kris Crawford and Sen. Kevin Bryant are mounting an effort to “draft” U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) into running for president in 2012.
(To read our original story, click here).
These lawmakers [...]
