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SCGOP Flees “Exchange” Bill

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"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

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Sheheen Rolls Out Reforms

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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,

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Another Harrell Challenger?

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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

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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

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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

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