REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WOULD BEST REPRESENT AIKEN, LEXINGTON TAXPAYERS
Later this week, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will be traveling to Pickens County, S.C. to endorse longtime fiscal liberal Larry Martin – which is curious when you consider that she vowed during her gubernatorial campaign to fight for a “more conservative” Senate.
Oh well … Haley has been a [...]
DeeDee Vaughters For SC Senate
Nikki Haley Endorsing Larry Martin
“TEA PARTY” GOVERNOR TO ENDORSE LONGTIME FISCAL LIBERAL IN STATE SENATE RACE
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will endorse fiscal liberal (and former Democrat) Larry Martin in a competitive State Senate race in the Palmetto Upstate, multiple sources have confirmed to FITS.
Martin, a thirty-year incumbent, is currently in the fight of his life against former S.C. Rep. [...]
“Liberal Larry” Fires Back
MARTIN SLAMS FITS’ FOUNDING EDITOR AS A “SHADY OUT OF STATE SPECIAL INTEREST”
S.C. Sen. Larry Martin (RINO-Pickens) is slamming – but not refuting – the content of a political advertisement run by Liber-TEA, an entity created by this website’s founding editor.
“Why is conservative Larry Martin is being attacked by shady out of state special interests?” the [...]
Wes Hayes And Your Money …
HE LIKES PUTTING IT IN HIS POCKET
According to the recently released Palmetto Liberty scorecards, S.C. Sen. Wes Hayes has one of the worst voting records in the State Senate – scoring an abysmal 18 out of 100.
This isn’t surprising. For years Hayes has fared poorly on multiple scorecards that track the fiscal records of [...]
SC Tea Party Group Releases Scorecards
PALMETTO LIBERTY PAC RELEASES 2012 SCORECARDS
Members of South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” S.C. General Assembly like to talk a big game when it comes to being “conservative,” but are they?
If you’ve followed the ballooning expansion of the Palmetto State’s budget in recent years then you know the answer to that question is a definitive “no.” And you [...]
We Are Unpopular … With Politicians
THEY HATE US … THEY REALLY, REALLY HATE US
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Nor can you cover South Carolina politics without busting open a few thin-skinned inbreds.
There’s a “way it’s always been done” in this infinitely corrupt state … and that way is almost NEVER in the interests of the [...]
SC Lawmakers Failed To Disclose Pension Payments
ELECTED OFFICIALS DEFY TRANSPARENCY
Numerous South Carolina state lawmakers failed to disclose their participation in a shady pension fund that enabled them to draw retirement benefits even though they had not yet retired. In fact, of the twenty-eight legislators who were taking payments from this fund – only seven reported doing so on their statements of [...]
Pickens County Debate
LARRY MARTIN, REX RICE WILL FACE THE VOTERS
By Nancy Yates || S.C. Sen. Larry Martin (RINO-Pickens) will debate former S.C. House member Rex Rice later this month in what’s shaping up to be one of the most exciting State Senate races of 2012.
Martin – a well-known name in Palmetto politics – has represented Pickens County [...]
So Here’s “The Ad”
LIBER-TEA’S UPSTATE TELEVISION SPOT HAS PALMETTO POLITICOS BUZZING
There’s quite a bit of chatter in the South Carolina Upstate these days over a television advertisement produced by our founding editor’s Liber-TEA group.
The Liber-TEA spot – which has been blanketing the airwaves – informs Upstate residents of the bad spending habits of S.C. Sen. Larry Martin (RINO-Pickens), a [...]
Mystery Groups At Work In SC
… AND GOD BLESS ‘EM
Several mysterious (and some not-so-mysterious) groups are getting involved in the political process in South Carolina – challenging incumbent politicians on their fiscal records in an effort to hold them accountable to the taxpayers they represent.
Good, right?
Absolutely … if there was ever a state that needed more truth in its political [...]
Incumbent SC Senators In Trouble?
KNOTTS, MARTIN AND SETZLER COULD ALL FALL IN NOVEMBER
Three incumbent South Carolina State Senators with lengthy records of opposing the taxpayers are in real trouble this election cycle, according to internal polling data shared with FITS.
And that’s despite the fact that all three of these politicians are facing off against petition candidates … a result [...]
SC Petition Signature Counts
FOR THOSE OF YOU KEEPING SCORE AT HOME
As we reported previously, four individuals appear to have collected enough signatures to earn a spot on the November 2012 ballot as petition candidates for the South Carolina State Senate.
In fact, all four of these candidates appear to have cleared the threshold with room to spare.
Official word isn’t expected until [...]
