Every so often a “gut check” vote comes along which lets you know whether a politician is the real deal or “all talk.”
Such a vote happened at the federal level last year when aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully pushed the reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank – which enables foreign competitors to get low interest loans [...]
Jeers On Boeing Vote
All Hail “Destructuring” In SC
For the last decade, reform-minded politicians in South Carolina have been pushing the notion of “government restructuring.” The idea is simple: To streamline government in such a manner that it costs less and works better.
Those two core goals – efficiency and accountability – ought to be at the heart of every proposal to restructure our [...]
SC Senate Rejects Transparency Rule
GLENN McCONNELL, NIKKI SETZLER SLAM THE DOOR ON NEEDED ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURE
In a disappointingly ironic display of contempt for citizens and taxpayers, the South Carolina Senate rejected an effort this week to amend its rules to require greater transparency at the committee and subcommittee levels.
In other words the hearings that ultimately determine the fate of key [...]
SC Senate Race Heads To Supreme Court
FATE OF CHARLESTON ELECTION HANGS IN THE BALANCE
Will Republicans in Charleston County, S.C. be allowed to select a new nominee for a vacant South Carolina Senate seat? Or will Democrats be permitted to pick up this reliably Republican district thanks to the latest installment of our state’s never-ending ballot drama?
Oh … and the incompetence of [...]
2012: The “Lost Cycle”
SC “REFORM” MOVEMENT ON ITS DEATHBED
For those of you who haven’t noticed, this website hasn’t exactly been chomping at the bit to endorse candidates in the 2012 legislative elections here in South Carolina.
Why not? Because this year’s election is a total farce … and that was true long before the S.C. Supreme Court tossed more [...]
Rethinking Paul Thurmond
GIVING AN ALLEGED “GOOD OLE BOY” HIS DUE …
During the 2010 race for South Carolina’s first congressional district, this website was totally in the tank for then-S.C. Rep. Tim Scott. Why? Because we believed that Scott was a true fiscal conservative who would consistently vote to protect our best interests in Washington, D.C.
In fact Scott [...]
Tim Scott Cruises To Victory On The Coast
By FITSNews || S.C. Rep. Tim Scott – the first African-American Republican elected to the South Carolina State House since Reconstruction – crushed the son of former segregationist Strom Thurmond to become the GOP nominee in the Palmetto state’s first congressional district.
If he wins in November, Scott would become the first African-American Republican elected to [...]
Tim Scott On CBS
By FITSNews || With South Carolina receiving so much negative national press lately, it’s nice to see at least one of our politicians presenting a positive image of our state.
In case you missed it, check out this clip of S.C. Rep. Tim Scott – who finished first in last week’s crowded GOP primary for the [...]
Scott Surges In New Poll
By FITSNews || S.C. Rep. Tim Scott has surged ahead of the competition in a crowded race for the S.C. first congressional district seat, according to a new poll released this week.
The poll – conducted by National Research on behalf of the S.C. Club for Growth – shows Scott receiving 30 percent of the vote [...]
Entire SC First District Running For SC First District
By FITSNews || “Nobody on the road … nobody on the beach …”
Not in South Carolina, anyway … they’re all running for Congress!
South Carolina’s First Congressional District now has a whopping thirteen candidates vying to represent it, and we’re still more than a month away from the filing deadline!
Indeed, the race to replace retiring U.S. [...]
