U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum brags about being a "full spectrum" conservative in his television ads, but it's U.S. Rep. Ron Paul who is receiving the support of elected officials in South Carolina who fit that description. In fact, as reported exclusively on FITS earlier this week, a trio of fiscal/ social
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Senator Lee Bright, South Carolina Chairman for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign spoke out today after Rep. Bachmann’s withdrawal from the race. “South Carolina and the nation are clearly seeking a conservative champion who can return our Federal government to its restrained
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After six weeks of acrimonious debate, the S.C. Senate finally passed its version of the FY 2011-12 state budget on Tuesday - although in a last-minute rush to approve this record-setting $22.1 billion spending plan it failed to include a required "balancing amendment." The South Carolina Constitution
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South Carolina pro-life supporters are livid after they were invited to - and then excluded from - a press conference regarding the Palmetto state's budget on Tuesday. According to multiple sources who participated in the organization of the State House press conference, S.C. Policy Council President
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South Carolina's record-setting state budget is poised to grow even larger this week ... presenting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and the Palmetto state's "Republican"-controlled General Assembly with a major political problem. At $22.1 billion (and counting), the current version of the state spending plan
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A handful of fiscally conservative S.C. Senators are trying to block the passage of a record-setting $22.1 billion budget the hopes of winning several key pro-taxpayer concessions. Among their "demands?" An up-or-down vote on a spending cap that would rebate surplus revenues back to the taxpayers
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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
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S.C. Senator Tom Davis has already proposed a cap on general fund revenues and a freeze on fee hikes (click here to read more about those common sense proposals) ... now he's targeting the third section of the state budget, federal funds. Under legislation pre-filed by Davis on Wednesday, South Carolina
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S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman - the Palmetto state's "Godfather of Pork" - sounded the tax hike trumpet during a publicly-funded trip to Arizona this week. While attending the National Conference of State Legislatures fall forum in Phoenix (on your dime), Leatherman declared that disproportionately
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In addition to his proposed cap on state spending, S.C. Sen. Tom Davis has pre-filed another eminently sensible piece of reform legislation for the upcoming session of the S.C. General Assembly. Along with State Senators Phil Shoopman, Shane Massey, Lee Bright, Kevin Bryant, Larry Grooms and Mike
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One of the few fiscal conservatives in the S.C. Senate is being accused of cronyism as it relates to the appointment of magistrates in Spartanburg, S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) - one of only a handful of pro-reform lawmakers in the entire S.C. General Assembly - has selected three former campaign
Read story »By FITSNews || It happens every year ... Well-intended legislation that aims to reform South Carolina's anti-competitive legal climate gets watered down in the State Senate, usually thanks to a handful of wealthy trail lawyer-legislators who reap hundreds of thousands of dollars each year based on
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