REVENGE, POLITICAL ADVANCEMENT AT HEART OF FARMER’S MARKET DEBATE
No media outlet in South Carolina has been more aggressive than this one when it comes to criticizing S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) chairman Bill Stern. We’ve battled with him for years – arguing that the SCSPA should have been much more aggressive in leveraging private capital [...]
Ralph Norman: Doing The Dirty Work Nikki Haley Can’t Do
SC Ports Release: New Operating System Purchased
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Lawmakers Strip Governor Of Port Power
At the behest of powerful Charleston, S.C. lawmakers Glenn McConnell and Bobby Harrell, South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” legislature stripped Gov. Mark Sanford of additional power today, swiftly overriding his veto of a flawed ports bill and effectively placing lawmakers in control of the bruised and battered S.C. Ports Authority.
Championed by McConnell, the arch-defender of South Carolina’s [...]
SC Port Confident It Can Keep Maersk
S.C. port officials are confident that they can keep international shipping giant Maersk from pulling all of its business from the port of Charleston.
Sources at the State Ports Authority have confirmed that the timetable we laid out in our previous report for Maersk making its decision is what the agency is hearing as well.
That means [...]
Port Scandal Brewing For McConnell?
After spending last week railing against the undue political influence being wielded over South Carolina’s State Ports Authority, S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell now finds himself accused of improperly using his own clout to influence decisions made by the embattled state agency.
And if that wasn’t enough, the beneficiary of McConnell’s alleged involvement is said to [...]
Port Explores Private Partnership For Veterans Terminal
A neglected terminal at the former Charleston Navy Base could be ground zero for a new era in port management in South Carolina, as sources tell FITS that the State Ports Authority has agreed in principle to enter into its first ever public-private model to manage the facility and rebuild its infrastructure.
Veterans Terminal, which handles [...]
Hard To Stern, Again?
The socialist business model and antiquated culture of arrogance that has the S.C. State Ports Authority spiraling into an anti-competitive abyss is unlikely to change unless lawmakers insist upon it.
After all, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford has had six years to pull off a free market renaissance at this smug, incompetent bureaucracy, and yet he has [...]
Port Executives Get Raises
South Carolina’s incompetent port executives gave themselves over $200,000 in bonuses this year, a decision they chose to announce late in the day … on Election Day.
That’s right … despite running our port system completely into the ground thanks to their slavish devotion to outdated, socialist business models, these already-overpaid Marxists are now swimming around [...]
Sit Down And Shut Up, Tumpy
BUT LET’S NOT GIVE THE GOVERNOR A “VICTORY” HE DOESN’T DESERVE
FITSNews – January 29, 2008 – The worst-kept secret in South Carolina politics is that former State Ports Authority board member Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell III has a brain about the size of a walnut. Seriously, how on earth does anybody let themselves get outmaneuvered [...]
Tumpy Gets Dumped From Port Board
ARCH-DEFENDER OF STATUS QUO, OPPONENT OF FREE MARKET REFORMS IS (FINALLY) SHOWN THE DOOR
FITSNews – January 8, 2008 – It sure as hell took him long enough to do it, but Gov. Mark Sanford finally removed Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell III from the S.C. State Ports Authority board today, a huge victory for supporters of [...]
