Assuming S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley agrees to give Palmetto Democrats what they want (i.e. two weeks before each election to mount a massive early voting effort), she could get a two-thirds vote on her watered down government restructuring proposals during the S.C. General Assembly's extended session. But
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Three years ago, South Carolina "Republicans" bragged that they had passed the "toughest immigration law in America." Not so much, apparently. On Tuesday, an updated version of "immigration reform" cleared the S.C. House of Representatives by a 69-43 vote - prompting state lawmakers to once again
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South Carolina lawmakers haven't impressed us much this session ... although let's be honest, that's nothing new. These left-of-center "Republican" gladhanders did nothing but spend money at a record clip in 2008 and 2009 , and the only thing they did last year (other than pass the state's largest
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"Republican" politicians in South Carolina love nothing more than to jointly jack each other off (rhetorically, anyway) over how "conservative" and "business-friendly" they are. Meanwhile, the out-of-work, underpaid sheeple of the Palmetto State (most of them edumicated in our worst-in-the-nation public
Read story »"Hail hail the lucky ones," Eddie Vedder once sang, and damn(it) if it "ain't better to be lucky than good," as the old adage goes. Disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford knows what we're talking about on both counts, as the full S.C. House Judiciary committee on Wednesday rubber-stamped last week's decision
Read story »After months of playing politics and attempting to evade responsibility on the issue, the S.C. House of Representatives finally approved sweeping transparency reforms today, a rare victory for common sense, accountable government as well as the taxpayers of South Carolina. And the final vote was every
Read story »The 2009 session of the S.C. General Assembly - a.k.a. "taxpayer-funded adult day care" - will be gaveled to order this morning as lawmakers return to Columbia to try and find new ways to waste money in one of the worst revenue years on record. Among other things, the "Return of the Jokers" means
Read story »In one of the most vindictive political moves we've seen in quite some time, S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell removed a member of his own party from a key House committee in retaliation for that lawmaker's outspoken support of a government transparency proposal and other common sense conservative reforms. State
Read story »House Ways & Means Chairman Dan Cooper will not seek re-election to the S.C. General Assembly in 2010, sources tell FITSNews. Cooper – who along with State Sen. Hugh Leatherman and House Speaker Bobby Harrell has engineered the greatest government expansion in South Carolina history –
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