In her first-ever bid for political office last summer, Myrtle Beach newcomer Mande Wilkes came within 400 votes of knocking off an incumbent state lawmaker. Rather than challenging S.C. Rep. Nelson Hardwick again, however, she's setting her sights higher in 2012 ... on the U.S. Congress. On Wednesday,
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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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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. 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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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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A major campaign finance scandal in Horry County, S.C. is expanding once again, this time to include politicians in yet another coastal municipality According to an exclusive report by Tom O'Dare of The Myrtle Beach Herald, federal investigators are probing campaign contributions received by three
Read story »By FITSNews || In a state that continues to carve out a national reputation for its bizarre political soap operas, natives will tell you there's one place where the drama reaches ridiculous levels - even by South Carolina standards. We're referring, of course, to Horry County. Seriously, people
Read story »By FITSNews || With surprising ease, the "Republican-controlled" S.C. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Gov. Mark Sanford's veto of a fifty-cent-per-pack increase in the state's cigarette tax - money that was not offset by a corresponding tax cut and which will be consumed in a few
Read story »By FITSNews || Despite widespread voter dissatisfaction with South Carolina's chronic lack of leadership, nearly half of all S.C. House members are facing no opposition from a major party candidate in 2010 - noteworthy for an election year that was supposed to be brutal for incumbents at all levels of
Read story »By FITSNews || S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell apologized to members of his bitterly-divided "Republican" Caucus on Wednesday - hours after he joined Democrats in approving language that would open the door for taxpayer-funded abortions in South Carolina in cases of rape, incest or danger to the life
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