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 Educrats: The Tables Are Turning
For years, South Carolina’s big-spending public school bureaucrats (a.k.a. “educrats”) were on the offensive in their battle to preserve our state’s failed monopolistic status quo.
The funding and academic numbers weren’t on their side (far from it, in fact), but these well-heeled purveyors of failure were nonetheless able to continue living large – drawing their six-figure [...]
SC Lawmakers Ban Beer, Wine?
It’s prohibition all over again in South Carolina … sort of.
Thanks to a controversial provision of a new state law that was passed earlier this year, businesses and individuals are now prohibited from obtaining permits to serve beer and wine at special events. In fact, you’ve got to be invited to a non-profit fundraiser or [...]
Meet Da Greenwood Goodie Mob
Proving our point that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between most Republican and Democratic politicians in South Carolina, a one-party government “Goodie Mob” has formed in Greenwood, S.C. – and it’s working to make sure the Palmetto State spends every red cent of its Obama play money.
In fact, Greenwood’s top two Republican leaders [...]
Leaders Join Reformers On Key Transparency Legislation
The Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives and Majority Leader of the State Senate have joined fiscal conservative reformers in supporting a key transparency initiative – the creation of an online checkbook that would track all taxpayer expenditures over $100.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell and Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler have signed on as co-sponsors [...]
