Nine “Republican in Name Only” members of the South Carolina Senate were slammed by one of the Palmetto State’s leading limited government groups this week after voting to reject proven free market academic reforms in favor of U.S. President Barack Obama’s signature education initiative. Meanwhile a national group also took them to task for their [...]
SC Club For Growth: Nine “Republican” Senators Vote Against Choice
Friends,
There is good news, bad news and worse news.
The good news is last night the Senate, in a historic vote, finally took up school choice. Although the amendment was defeated we finally know who supports the failed status quo system, and who wants to move South Carolina forward.
Senator Larry Grooms, who authored this amendment, explained how [...]
SC Senate Screws Kids … Again
Nine “Republicans” – including four “former” Democrats and the self-proclaimed “conservative” leader of the GOP-controlled South Carolina Senate – voted against a scaled down parental choice measure this week. The vote to reject the measure – which was sponsored by longtime school choice champion Larry Grooms – comes as many of these lawmakers are opting to join [...]
Props To 2012 SC Senate Taxpayer Heroes
TOO BAD THERE ARE ONLY THREE OF THEM …
This website is quick to anger, slow to praise – a reputation we relish. Seriously … why should we bend over backward thanking politicians for doing things they ought to be doing?
Protecting freedom, free markets and future prosperity is something we view as a sacred obligation. Not something you [...]
Faith In US Public Schools Eroding
AND WITH GOOD REASON
Americans’ faith in public schools has reached a record low, according to data released this week. Just 29 percent of Americans indicated that they had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in public schools according to Gallup’s annual “Confidence in Institutions” survey.
That’s a five point decline from the previous year [...]
SC Taxpayer Rebate Fund Killed … Again
“REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED” STATE SENATE ONCE AGAIN SHOOTS DOWN FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE REFORM
South Carolina’s State Senate has rejected yet another effort to create a rebate fund for taxpayers.
By a vote of 24-18, the Palmetto State’s “Republican-controlled” Senate rejected a proposal introduced by Sen. Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) that would have created the “Tax Relief Reserve Fund” – a mechanism [...]
Time Running Out For South Carolina
Dear Will,
With only seven days left in the legislative session South Carolina school choice hangs in the balance. For the past six months FreedomWorks activists and local groups have been working tirelessly to pass H.4894, a meaningful education reform bill that will help to improve South Carolina’s failing schools.
After much hard work school choice passed [...]
More Local SCGOP Drama
A little over a year ago, this website took notice when a purported Tea Party leader assumed control of the Horry County Republican Party.
“We reached out to the grassroots and we took our party back,” newly elected party chairwoman Johnnie Bellamy (above, right) told The Sun News at the time.
Really? Needless to say we were [...]
FreedomWorks Rally At S.C. State House
Dear Will,
The South Carolina Senate is playing politics with the future of thousands of South Carolina students. The House passed historic school choice bill H.4894 last month, but the Senate is holding the bill hostage, with some members trying to delay a vote until the end of the session in June.
The numbers don’t lie. Despite [...]
FreedomWorks: SC Senate Playing Games
Dear Will ,
The South Carolina Senate is playing politics with the future of thousands of South Carolina students. The House passed historic school choice bill H.4894 last month, but the Senate is holding the bill hostage, with some members trying to delay a vote until the end of the session in June.
If they are successful H.4894 will [...]
Grand Strand Tea Party: All Bark, No Bite
One region of the Palmetto State which claims to boast an active Tea Party movement is the Grand Strand – a stretch of independent-minded coastal communities that comprise the heart of South Carolina tourism economy. In fact a so-called “Tea Party” leader recently took over the Horry County Republican Party, which was supposed to have [...]
