Politics, Sports and Pop Culture
The notoriously corrupt S.C. House Ethics Committee – which as we’ve pointed out on numerous occasions ought to be abolished – is holding a meeting this week.
What’s on its agenda? Glad you asked …
Yeah … how’s that for transparency in government?
This is sad but not surprising. Remember, this is the committee which gained infamy last [...]
2009 SHOOTING COULD “RAISE THE STAKES” FOR GAMBLING OPERATION
The rapidly unfolding saga of the “Lexington Ring” – a corrupt cabal of politicians and law enforcement officers who are allegedly running an illegal video poker operation out of Lexington County, S.C. – could be on the verge of jumping to a higher energy level.
A murderous level [...]
TIPS, QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM FITS READERS
Welcome to “the wire,” our pseudo-regular effort to engage the growing number of tips, comments and questions we receive here at FITS News. While we continue perfecting this new format – and our forthcoming website overhaul – please keep your tips, comments and questions coming!
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
WHO
S.C. Senator Tom Davis and U.S. Congressman Ron Paul
COST
A donation to Tom Davis for Senate is appreciated.
WHAT
A fundraiser to support Senator Tom Davis. Congressman Ron Paul is the special guest. We will have both a silent auction and raffle to win a few autographed items from Congressman Paul.
WHEN
Monday, August 6, 2012
6:00-8:00PM
WHERE
701 Whaley (located at [...]
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Former “Republican” Majority Leader Jimmy Merrill’s world was rocked by a major “pay to play” scandal over the weekend … a blow widely regarded as the first preemptive detonation linked to S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s doctrine of mutually assured destruction against lawmakers investigating her own scandals.
Future “pay to play” stories targeting other South Carolina legislative leaders [...]
Another day, another South Carolina state agency banning its employees from reading FITS …
According to our sources, the S.C. Department of Insurance (SCDOI) – part of Gov. Nikki Haley’s cabinet – is the latest state agency to prohibit its employees from accessing this website. Other taxpayer-funded entities that ban FITS? The S.C. Budget and Control [...]
For those of you unfamiliar with how the game works at the South Carolina State House, there are politicians who go along to get along (padding their pockets in the process) and politicians who buck the status quo in an effort to protect the taxpayers.
Invariably there are plenty of the former and virtually none of [...]
Our little idea to more directly (and instantaneously) engage reader tips, questions and comments with a (pseudo) daily “wire” post is paying some dividends.
In fact the idea is so popular that we really need to come up with a name for this new feature. We were originally going to call it the “tip line,” but [...]
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s effort to put down rumors of an imminent indictment on tax charges entered a new, more aggressive phase late Thursday when she sought to frame the furor as the byproduct of unaccountable, unethical new media.
“Sorry fellas. I’m not going anywhere no matter how many lies you put on a blog,” Haley [...]
GOVERNOR PUSHES BACK AGAINST INDICTMENT RUMORS
As reports of “imminent” indictments continue to swirl around the S.C. State House, Gov. Nikki Haley is denying any connection to an Internal Revenue Service probe of the Sikh Temple run by her father, Ajit S. Randhawa. Specifically, Haley is refuting allegations that she ran the books for the organization, [...]
If S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is being indicted next week, it’s news to her office …
Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey told The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier that she has received neither a target letter nor a subject letter from the U.S. Department of Justice or the Internal Revenue Service.
That bit of information was tweeted by [...]
