Several "Republican" State Senators are on a new "hit list" being circulated by Tea Party leaders - and GOP activists - a sure sign that the 2012 legislative primaries in South Carolina are going to be contested and competitive. One Tea Party missive identified six "Republican in Name Only" State
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Ready, aim ... fire! It's almost RINO hunting season in South Carolina, but you can get an early start on the 2012 fun by preemptively targeting four liberal Republicans who continue to vote with Democratic lawmakers on key tax, spending and reform legislation. We're talking, of course, about State
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South Carolina State Senators - many of whom are blocking a tort reform bill passed by the S.C. House of Representatives - are being bankrolled by hundreds of thousands of dollars from trial lawyers. According to a spreadsheet provided to FITS by a prominent Upstate business leader, forty-five S.C.
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We've heard this song before ... a hard-charging "join the movement" reformer with a strong base of Tea Party support storms to the head of the GOP ranks. It's catchy ... and it's got a beat that plenty of people are dancing to these days. In fact, this familiar tune played out once again last
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South Carolina lawmakers have been patting themselves on the back this year for passing "tort reform" and "advancing transparency," but when it comes to serving the Palmetto state's liberal trial lawyer lobby, they are once again operating in the shadows. In fact, the State Senate is about to ram
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Every time we think it couldn't possibly get any more corrupt, the "Coastal Kickback" - a brazen pay-to-play scam involving numerous South Carolina politicians - finds a way to prove us wrong. In case you're new to FITS, this scam began last May when the city of Myrtle Beach, S.C. passed a one cent
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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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S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen voted against legislation that would have required a higher percentage of education funding to go toward classroom expenses - a pro-bureaucracy position that's distinctly at odds with the Democratic gubernatorial nominee's recently unveiled "education plan." Sheheen, a
Read story »By FITSNews || With S.C. lawmakers returning to the state capitol one last time on Tuesday to take up gubernatorial vetoes, GOP activists are pushing hard for the passage of a voter ID bill that has been blocked by Democrats Senators - four of whom happen to be wearing Republican labels. In fact,
Read story »By FITSNews || There's a movement afoot to boot S.C. Senator Jakie Knotts from the Republican Party - a movement we enthusiastically support, by the way. But why? Is it because Knotts called GOP gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley a "raghead" on a local internet talk show earlier this month? No,
Read story »By FITSNews || A voter identification bill aggressively backed by the S.C. Republican Party was killed by the "GOP-controlled" State Senate on Thursday, the latest example of how Democrats are really in control of state government. The "voter ID" bill would have required citizens to bring a form of
Read story »By FITSNews || Republicans and Democrats in the S.C. Senate are stalling on a pair of qualified nominations to the state Workers' Compensation Commission (WCC), the latest example of trial lawyers running the show in the S.C. General Assembly ... and running our state's economic competitiveness into
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