By FITSNews || The polls predicted a tight race ... and they didn't lie. The top three candidates in the City of Columbia's hotly-contested 2010 mayoral race fought to within six points of each other on Tuesday, with Columbia attorney Steve Benjamin and City Councilman Kirkman Finlay edging past Columbia
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Columbia Goes To The Polls
By FITSNews || Voters in South Carolina's capital city go to the polls on Tuesday to select a new mayor and choose two city council seats - races that have attracted statewide attention. Another race that isn't going to be on the ballot has also attracted national attention, as a trio of federal judges
Read story »Benjamin’s Transparency Doesn’t Extend To Budget
By FITSNews || City of Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Benjamin has built much of his "hope and change"-themed campaign around the notion of government transparency, but some are beginning to wonder whether his promised "sunlight" will reach into what has become the city's "heart of darkness"
Read story »Morrison, Benjamin Dance Payday “Two Step”
By FITSNews || First of all, where to start with that picture ... Do we make fun of the lady with the afro on the far left? Or what about the "Chester Molester" dude on the far right giving the "elbow tickle" to that "It's Pat" wanna-be in the shrimp-colored polo shirt? Oh ... and check out those
Read story »Law Firm Pressuring Employees For Political Contributions
By FITSNews || Senior partners at the Columbia, S.C. law firm of Nelson Mullins are reportedly pressuring their employees to financially support the Capitol City mayoral bid of ethically-challenged attorney Steve Morrison, who is himself a senior partner at the firm. According to multiple sources
Read story »Sunshine: Lawyer-Style
By FITSNews || With taxpayers placing an especially high premium on transparency these days, it's only natural that candidates for public office at all levels of government are doing everything within their power to position themselves as "pro-sunshine." This is especially true in the race to lead
Read story »Sources: Morrison Subject Of Anonymous Court Memo
By FITSNews || Unethical behavior by Columbia S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Morrison led to a Supreme Court ruling a decade ago that has shaped how attorneys in South Carolina must handle pretrial discovery and witness depositions ever since. That's probably not the sort of distinction that this decorated
Read story »David Wilkins: Selling Out
By FITSNews || Former U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins likes to brand himself as a "Republican's Republican," and to be fair his record as the Speaker of the South Carolina House (at least his record from 2003-05) was indeed much more fiscally conservative than that of his successor, Bobby Harrell. Of
Read story »Steve Morrison’s “Smoking Gun?”
As part of our ongoing effort to expose the hypocrisies and double standards of South Carolina's mainstream media, FITS posted an item a few weeks ago about Warren Bolton, editorial writer at La Socialista (a.k.a. The State). Bolton, it seems, has a bit of a liberal ideological "bro-mance" going with
Read story »La Socialista Forgot Something
We're pretty sure that Warren Bolton, editorial writer at La Socialista (a.k.a The State newspaper) has a bit of a "bro-mance" going on with left-leaning Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Morrison. Or a "bro-mance" of ideas, anyway. After all, in administering near-daily journalistic HJ's
Read story »Columbia SC: Another One Jumps In
Another day, another uber-liberal lawyer jumping into a political race in South Carolina. And we wonder why nothing ever changes in this state? This time the culprit ... err, candidate ... is longtime liberal activist Steve Morrison, a managing partner at Special Interest Central (a.k.a. Nelson,
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