S.C. Senator Robert Ford is on the warpath against special interests that he says are shortchanging black elected officials when it comes to campaign contributions. He's also demanding that these interests hire more black lobbyists. "Every other Southern state has at least twice the number of black
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By Robert Ford || "There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro ... if the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. … He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself …
Read story »S.C. Senator Robert Ford is responding to criticism from one of the Palmetto state's most notorious poverty pimps - the "Reverend" Joe Darby, who recently called the Charleston Democrat "an embarrassment to South Carolina." "Every day I have to face criticism from people my age or older who have never
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Sometimes we forget that "yesterday's news" around here is just beginning to take hold in the mainstream press ... Like the Amazon.com story - which we've been ahead of the curve on from the beginning. Or the story about S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley canning the only female (and only African-American) member
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More than a decade after it was removed from the chambers of the S.C. Senate and House of Representatives (and from the dome of the S.C. State House) the Confederate flag has made an unlikely comeback. S.C. Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston) waved the rebel banner from the podium of the State Senate
Read story »S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley made her most definitive statement as governor in support of universal parental choice legislation this week. "Parents should be able to decide where they send their kids to school," Haley said. "So, I have said the second they can get that bill to my desk, I absolutely will
Read story »Members of the S.C. Legislative Black Caucus (LBC) are pressing Gov. Nikki Haley for a meeting. Led by State Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston), these LBC members want assurances from Haley that her economic development efforts will not disproportionately benefit white South Carolinians - while her proposed
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It will be another month before the S.C. Legislative Audit Council (LAC) releases its highly-anticipated report on the controversial - and thus far nonexistent - James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center at S.C. State University. This report was requested last summer by S.C. Sen. Robert Ford
Read story »Remember that racist flier that was found on the desk of a white South Carolina lawmaker a few years ago? The one that claimed black people were lazy and didn't want to work? Apparently, S.C. Rep. Bill Sandifer (RINO-Oconee) isn't alone in his critique of the African-American work ethic ... On
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Here's today's edition of the "post," our daily assemblage of relevant links from around the Palmetto state (and beyond) ... Obviously Palmetto politicos are casting a nervous eye today toward Everett, Washington - where Boeing officials announced the latest delay of the 787 Dreamliner program. South
Read story »For those of you unfamiliar with his work, reporter Wayne Washington over at The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper is a great fiction writer ... particularly when he's on the subject of higher education. Seriously ... he's like a friggin' advertorial for South Carolina's failed higher ed system, which
Read story »By FITSNews || S.C. Senator Robert Ford (D-Charleston) has called for an audit of the non-existent James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center at S.C. State University. Wait ... how can you audit something that doesn't exist? That's easy ... you try and find out what happened to the $50 million
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