STEVE PARKER LANDS IN HOT WATER AGAIN OVER USE OF TAXPAYER RESOURCES
When he’s not helping his son evade responsibility for a myriad of disturbing indecency charges , S.C. Rep. Steve Parker (RINO-Spartanburg) is busy making sure that South Carolina’s children remain trapped in the nation’s worst public school system.
Quite a guy, huh?
Of course such behavior [...]
More Trouble For Ethically Challenged Upstate Lawmaker
Positive Reinforcement
We crack skulls around here … not because we like doing it, but because that’s what the situation in South Carolina calls for (unless high unemployment, low income levels, costly academic failure, soaring spending and dysfunctional government are your measures of success).
Seriously … you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, to which [...]
Spartanburg SC: Axis Of (Educrat) Evil
They own the local politicians … that much we already knew. Now the sprawling educrat establishment in Spartanburg, S.C. is getting some love from the city’s “conservative” mainstream media.
Once among the state’s most forward-thinking editorial boards, the opinion-makers at The Spartanburg Herald-Journal are now inexplicably ripping into a market-based parental choice plan, arguing that state [...]
Spartanburg Schools: Not All That
The academic prowess of Spartanburg County’s public schools has been lauded of late by local “Republican” lawmakers as a way of justifying their ongoing special interest-driven betrayal of parents.
According to these legislators, Spartanburg doesn’t need parental choice because it’s schools are among South Carolina’s finest.
The only problem? That’s not saying much. Also, Spartanburg’s public schools [...]
SC Needs To “Woman Up?”
South Carolina ranks dead last nationally in the number of women serving in its state legislature – something S.C. Rep. Jenny Horne (RINO – Summerville) wants to fix.
Horne is working with the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics to raise awareness of the need for more women in politics – something that S.C. Gov. Nikki [...]
Spartanburg Six: Destined For Defeat?
Scrolling through Sunday’s editions of The Spartanburg Herald-Journal did our hearts good.
Why? Because several weeks after a group of Spartanburg county “Republicans” chose to put the financial interests of our state’s failed status quo above the academic interests of South Carolina school children, the pressure they are facing over this deplorable vote isn’t relenting.
If anything, [...]
The “Spartanburg Six”
By “The Voice” || A powerful letter to the editor was published in Sunday’s Spartanburg Herald Journal.
It asked the question: Why did six Republicans lawmakers from Spartanburg County vote against school choice?
After all, school choice has long been a cornerstone of the state’s Republican Party platform, and popular with Republican voters and politicians across the [...]
SC: Where One Size (Still) Fits All
By one vote, South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” House of Representatives killed a universal school choice bill that would have provided expanded academic options for all parents and a lifeline for more than 100,000 children trapped in failing public schools.
The debate took less than half an hour – which is interesting when you consider that lawmakers spent [...]
“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 [...]
