FISCAL LIBERALS DOMINATE PALMETTO STATE’S “GOP-CONTROLLED” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Last week we took a look at the abysmal scores recorded by “Republican” members of the S.C. Senate on the S.C. Club for Growth’s 2012 legislative scorecards. This week we look at the scores put up by the S.C. House of Representatives – which is also controlled (in [...]
SC House “Republicans” Fall Short On Fiscal Conservative Votes
SC House Bans Gubernatorial Lobbying
The S.C. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to ban taxpayer-funded lobbying in the governor’s office – putting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley in the awkward position of having to lobby the legislature to overturn the amendment.
First, here’s the text of the amendment (sponsored by S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown) that passed the House:
SECTION 1B, Amendment 95
Rep. [...]
SCGOP Flees “Exchange” Bill
“Run away! Run away!”
No, this isn’t a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it’s the scene that’s unfolding at the S.C. State House after several “Republican” lawmakers got their hands caught in Barack Obama’s cookie jar.
Several SCGOP lawmakers are now fleeing a bill they previously sponsored that would have established a government-run, Massachusetts-style [...]
Sheheen Rolls Out Reforms
S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen may have lost the Palmetto state’s governor’s race last month – but he’s still pushing ideas that he believes will make South Carolina’s state government more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers it’s supposed to serve.
Some of them actually will …
On Thursday, Sheheen rolled out a six-piece reform agenda that includes [...]
Another Harrell Challenger?
We take anything published on SC Hotline with the proverbial ocean of salt, but given the heat that’s on S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell following his recent botched robo-call (the latest skirmish in the South Carolina GOP’s ongoing civil war) … it’s possible that he could really be facing a new threat to his powerful [...]
Effort To Ban Taxpayer-Funded Educrat Lobbying Fails
By FITSNews || So much for South Carolina lawmakers working to “put more money into the classroom …”
Last Thursday – by a one-vote margin – the “GOP-controlled” S.C. House of Representatives rejected a proposal that would have prohibited school districts from routing taxpayer money to fund bureaucratic advocacy groups, which use the money to lobby [...]
Nazis, Speedos And Your Tax Dollars
GOD SAVE SOUTH CAROLINA’S BEACHES
FITSNews – July 31, 2008 – Honestly, we had a difficult time selecting the right image to go with this story. It was either pissing off our state’s Jewish Mafia (which we decided to go with) or disgusting you with pictures of men in speedos. Hopefully, we made the right [...]
