SC House “Republicans” Fall Short On Fiscal Conservative Votes

FISCAL LIBERALS DOMINATE PALMETTO STATE’S “GOP-CONTROLLED” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Last week we took a look at the abysmal scores recorded by “Republican” members of the S.C. Senate on the S.C. Club for Growth’s 2012 legislative scorecards. This week we look at the scores put up by the S.C. House of Representatives – which is also controlled (in [...]

SC Petition Candidates Rise Up

NUMEROUS INCUMBENTS WILL FACE CHALLENGERS
We’ve expended a great deal of ink criticizing the efforts of limited government advocates this election cycle – and deservedly so. Abandoned by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and her “movement,” the South Carolina’s Tea Party fell flat on its face in 2012 – with predictable consequences for Palmetto State taxpayers.
Exhibit A? [...]

2012: The “Lost Cycle”

SC “REFORM” MOVEMENT ON ITS DEATHBED
For those of you who haven’t noticed, this website hasn’t exactly been chomping at the bit to endorse candidates in the 2012 legislative elections here in South Carolina.
Why not? Because this year’s election is a total farce … and that was true long before the S.C. Supreme Court tossed more [...]

More Trouble For Ethically Challenged Upstate Lawmaker

STEVE PARKER LANDS IN HOT WATER AGAIN OVER USE OF TAXPAYER RESOURCES
When he’s not helping his son evade responsibility for a myriad of disturbing indecency charges , S.C. Rep. Steve Parker (RINO-Spartanburg) is busy making sure that South Carolina’s children remain trapped in the nation’s worst public school system.
Quite a guy, huh?
Of course such behavior [...]

State Representative In Hot Water Over Educrat Emails

SOUTH CAROLINA’S “ETHICS” LAWS ARE ONCE AGAIN BEING ROUTINELY VIOLATED
We’ve written extensively in the past about how Spartanburg County, S.C. ( population 284,307) has seven different public school districts “serving” its student population compared to neighboring Greenville County, S.C. (population 451,225), which has just one.
Is there any universe in which such waste and duplication is [...]

Lawmakers’ Son Goes Free On Assualt, Indecency Charges

Kevin Parker, the 28-year-old son of S.C. Rep. Steve Parker (RINO-Spartanburg), pleaded guilty but mentally ill to more than a dozen indecent exposure, assault and burglary charges stemming from a series of stalking/ flashing/ sexual assault incidents that took place in two years ago on two college campuses.
Amazingly, Parker not only avoided any jail time [...]

SC House Bans Gubernatorial Lobbying

The S.C. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to ban taxpayer-funded lobbying in the governor’s office – putting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley in the awkward position of having to lobby the legislature to overturn the amendment.
First, here’s the text of the amendment (sponsored by S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown) that passed the House:
SECTION 1B, Amendment 95
Rep. [...]

Spartanburg SC: Axis Of (Educrat) Evil

They own the local politicians … that much we already knew. Now the sprawling educrat establishment in Spartanburg, S.C. is getting some love from the city’s “conservative” mainstream media.
Once among the state’s most forward-thinking editorial boards, the opinion-makers at The Spartanburg Herald-Journal are now inexplicably ripping into a market-based parental choice plan, arguing that state [...]

Spartanburg Schools: Not All That

The academic prowess of Spartanburg County’s public schools has been lauded of late by local “Republican” lawmakers as a way of justifying their ongoing special interest-driven betrayal of parents.
According to these legislators, Spartanburg doesn’t need parental choice because it’s schools are among South Carolina’s finest.
The only problem? That’s not saying much. Also, Spartanburg’s public schools [...]

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 has “shifted our leaders’ focus away [...]

Spartanburg Six: Destined For Defeat?

Scrolling through Sunday’s editions of The Spartanburg Herald-Journal did our hearts good.
Why? Because several weeks after a group of Spartanburg county “Republicans” chose to put the financial interests of our state’s failed status quo above the academic interests of South Carolina school children, the pressure they are facing over this deplorable vote isn’t relenting.
If anything, [...]

The “Spartanburg Six”

By “The Voice” || A powerful letter to the editor was published in Sunday’s Spartanburg Herald Journal.
It asked the question: Why did six Republicans lawmakers from Spartanburg County vote against school choice?
After all, school choice has long been a cornerstone of the state’s Republican Party platform, and popular with Republican voters and politicians across the [...]