“Tax And Spend” SC House Overrides Sanford Ciggie Veto

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 short years by annual Medicaid premium increases.
Leading [...]

SC Lawmakers Draw Few Challengers

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 government.
Talk about a wasted opportunity [...]

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 advocacy groups, which use the money to lobby [...]

Harrell Apologizes To House GOP Caucus

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 of the mother.
Unless changed by budget proviso, [...]

Coastal Campaign Finance Scam: Who’s Investigating?

By FITSNews || An alleged “pay to play” scandal involving numerous Grand Strand politicians is on the verge of being swept completely under the rug, sources close to the various inquiries tell FITS.
In fact, the only agency still actively investigating the scandal is the S.C. State Ethics Commission, which lacks the authority to file criminal [...]

Nelson Hardwick: Learning About “Cheeky”

By FITSNews || Other than the fact that his cheeks get really, really red when he drinks (which he does a lot), we know absolutely nothing about S.C. Rep. Nelson Hardwick.
Seriously … nada.
Well, we take that back … we know that he got an “F” on the recently-released S.C. Club for Growth legislative scorecards (which [...]