PETITION EFFORT AIMS TO RESTORE CANDIDATES TO GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS
South Carolina’s discombobulated reform movement – which put up a puny challenge to the Palmetto State’s big-spending incumbent establishment in this year’s “Republican” primary election – may finally be emerging from its multi-year haze.
Having lost steam thanks to Mark Sanford’s fall from grace and Nikki Haley’s [...]
“Operation Lost Vote”
“Haley’s” Restructuring Bill Slammed By Tea Party
Tea Party leaders rebuked S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley this week for her failure to lead on government restructuring – an issue the governor is hoping to use as a springboard to reclaim some of her lost popularity.
Leaders of several prominent Tea Party organizations gathered at the S.C. State House this week to denounce the governor [...]
DoA Activists To Rake Haley Over Coals At Press Conference
RINO HUNT
Grassroots Organizations Frustrated with Department of Admin Bill
Greenville, SC — Grassroots organizations in South Carolina watched as the Senate refused to implement true reform with the House bill that was intended to do away with the Budget and Control Board and create real accountability and transparency within SC state government. The bill that was [...]
WTF, Tom Davis?
TOP SOUTH CAROLINA REFORMER SHOWS SOME MISPLACED LOVE
S.C. Senator Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) is easily the Palmetto State’s most fiscally conservative state lawmaker – as well as its most aggressive advocate for meaningful reform. That’s why this website has consistently served as his most vocal cheerleader.
Of course Davis is also occasionally South Carolina’s most gullible lawmaker [...]
Haley Abandons Leatherman On Restructuring Deal
DAVIS, MASSEY AND SHEHEEN’S EFFORTS PAY OFF FOR S.C. TAXPAYERS
Last year, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley struck a backroom deal with powerful Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman (RINO-Florence) that would have grown South Carolina’s administrative bureaucracy while further splintering real accountability in state government.
It was all part of Haley’s “quick wins” strategy – an effort to [...]
Stop The Presses!
Stop the presses, people … a national reporter has written a story about S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley that doesn’t just reflexively regurgitate the “rising star” “Tea Party hero” “popular governor” myths.
The report – written by veteran D.C. scribe John Fund and published in The National Review – actually chronicles Haley’s difficult first year in office [...]
Talbert Black: On Political Proximity
By Talbert Black, Jr. || Friends of South Carolina, you can have access to a politician, or you can have power to influence him.
You can’t have both!
I have gained some experience over the last three years in moving politicians to do what they don’t want to.
I’ve spent much time on the phone and in the [...]
SC Tea Party Blasts Haley Over Amazon
South Carolina Tea Party leaders are blasting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley for her failure to take a principled stand against a controversial incentives deal for online retailer Amazon.com.
In an email sent to his supporters late Wednesday, S.C. Campaign for Liberty leader Talbert Black ripped Haley for playing both sides of the fence on the sales [...]
Parental Choice: SC House Committee’s Turn
Weeks after a quartet of “Republicans in Name Only” in the S.C. Senate shot down a desperately-needed universal parental choice bill, members of a S.C. House of Representatives committee will get their chance to weigh in on the legislation.
South Carolina Tea Party leaders are already rallying in support of the bill … which would provide [...]
SC Campaign For Liberty: Next Step In Transparency To Be Announced
S.C. CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY
Contact: Talbert Black
Tel. 803.767.1152
Email: talbert@talbertblack.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEXT STEP IN TRANSPARENCY TO BE ANNOUNCED
Talbert Black Jr, Interim State Coordinator for Campaign for Liberty, will join other government watchdog groups to announce what they term “the next battle for transparency and accountability in state government” on Wednesday.
Black and other grass roots leaders were instrumental [...]
SC Tea Party Targeting Incentives
Fresh off of a major victory in the battle over roll call voting, South Carolina‘s leading Tea Party activists will announce their next major legislative initiative at a press conference on Wednesday at the S.C. State House.
“We are happy to have the Roll Call bill finally signed into law,” Tea Party leader Talbert Black said [...]
SC Tea Party Lobbies … Haley?
In the latest sign that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has strayed a long way from the “reform reservation” in a very short period of time, one of South Carolina’s prominent Tea Party leaders is urging his followers to contact the governor in an effort to make sure she supports … her own transparency legislation?
Say huh?
Surely [...]
