Lifelong Lancaster County resident Ryan Payne announced today that he will seek the Republican nomination for South Carolina House District 44. Payne, a Heath Springs resident, graduated in 2009 as class Valedictorian from Andrew Jackson High School. He attended the University of South Carolina
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Big Sister Nimrata Is Watching
In addition to mandating that all state employees in South Carolina lie through their teeth every time they answer the telephone (following her lead), S.C. Gov. Nikki "Nimrata" Haley announced earlier this week that she will be monitoring their computer activity, too. Haley made the announcement at
Read story »Drugged Out SC: Nikki Haley Was Just Funnin’
After initially promising to provide documentation for her bizarre claim regarding drug use among job applicants at the Savannah River Site (SRS), S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has now totally backed down from her controversial comments. "I've never felt like I had to back up what people tell me," the embattled
Read story »Nikki Haley Doubles Down On Drug Claim
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is standing by her bizarre claim that fifty percent of recent job applicants at the Savannah River Site (SRS) failed drug tests while the other half "couldn’t read and write properly." Talk about "selling the greatness of South Carolina," right? SRS is a U.S. Department
Read story »Democrats Target SCGOP Salaries
South Carolina Democrats are preparing to launch a major media offensive aimed at exposing the high salaries of GOP operatives in state government - as well as the thin qualifications these government employees presented when applying for their taxpayer-funded positions. At a time when increasing
Read story »Nikki Haley Loves Report Cards
We believe strongly that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's report cards for South Carolina legislators are a good thing ... or at least they could have been a good thing had the governor offered a real reform agenda on which to grade our fiscally liberal state lawmakers. Unfortunately, she didn't do that. Haley's
Read story »Wilson Confident Of Indictment Against Ard
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson is "supremely confident" that a statewide grand jury will return a criminal indictment against S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard (RINO-Pamplico), sources close to the first-term Republican officeholder tell FITS. Meanwhile, a pair of state lawmakers - one Democrat, the other
Read story »Inside The Latest Haley-Loftis Spat
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley refused to consider a $50 million fund transfer for the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) because the agency approached one of her political rivals with the request first, multiple sources at the agency tell FITS. According to SCDOT officials who spoke with FITS on condition
Read story »One Vote Could Sink SC Educrats’ Exploitation
We hear excuses every day from status quo backers in Columbia as to why South Carolina's public education system is so atrocious. It's poverty, they say. Or racism. Or insufficient funding. Or it's the fault of parents. Then there's our favorite excuse - that the ongoing debate over parental choice
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On Thursday, FITS founding editor Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) will be spending the majority of the day in a deposition. This is the first of two upcoming depositions in which he will be involved - one in Columbia, the other in Greenville, S.C. And if you think S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley isn't sweating
Read story »Sources: Ard Scandal Could Ensnare Major GOP Donor
S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard (RINO-Pamplico) is "hanging onto his office by the thinnest of threads" a high-level GOP source tell FITS - his political future hinging on whether the state's "Republican" establishment is willing to take down a major GOP donor who has reportedly become ensnared in the scandal. We're
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