As we’ve noted on repeated occasions there is a contingent of “Republicans” in the South Carolina Senate that habitually join Democrats in support of all manner of big government boondoggling … while opposing all manner of tax relief and free market reforms.
It’s been this way for years, which is why the first decade of “Republican” [...]
The SC Senate’s New Swing Vote
Props To 2012 SC Senate Taxpayer Heroes
TOO BAD THERE ARE ONLY THREE OF THEM …
This website is quick to anger, slow to praise – a reputation we relish. Seriously … why should we bend over backward thanking politicians for doing things they ought to be doing?
Protecting freedom, free markets and future prosperity is something we view as a sacred obligation. Not something you [...]
SC Taxpayer Rebate Fund Killed … Again
“REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED” STATE SENATE ONCE AGAIN SHOOTS DOWN FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE REFORM
South Carolina’s State Senate has rejected yet another effort to create a rebate fund for taxpayers.
By a vote of 24-18, the Palmetto State’s “Republican-controlled” Senate rejected a proposal introduced by Sen. Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) that would have created the “Tax Relief Reserve Fund” – a mechanism [...]
“Operation Lost Vote”
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 [...]
SC Senate: Back To The Future?
One of the most self-serving, fiscally-liberal, morally-bankrupt politicians ever to take the floor of the South Carolina Senate (and trust us … that’s saying something) wants to come back after a four-year hiatus.
John Hawkins (RINO-Spartanburg) – a left-leaning personal injury lawyer who retired from State Senate in 2009 – will run for the Senate seat [...]
Greg Ryberg Won’t Run Again
Greg Ryberg – a curmudgeony, confrontational presence in the S.C. State Senate for the last two decades – will not seek reelection in 2012, according to The Aiken Standard.
“It has been a reward to have 20 years of service. The next 20 I’m going to spend with my wife and family,” the irascible lawmaker told [...]
Club: Seven “Republican” Senators Bring Back B&CB
Friends,
There is good news and bad news.
The good news is that on Tuesday the Senate, in a historic vote, finally eliminated the archaic Budget and Control Board. In its place they voted to implement a sensible structure similar to the one used by the forty-nine other states.
Senators Davis and Massey, who helped author this amendment, were [...]
SC’s Sagging Income Levels
While S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and the “Republican-controlled” General Assembly in South Carolina continue to grow government at recklessly exorbitant levels, the ability of Palmetto State taxpayers to pick up this soaring tab continues to shrink.
According to data published by the U.S. Census, South Carolina’s median household income fell to $42,018 in 2010 (from an [...]
Greenville Tea Party Scorecard Rips Upstate Republicans
The Greenville, S.C. Tea Party has released a legislative scorecard for Upstate members of the S.C. General Assembly … and it ain’t pretty.
Four State Senators – Mike Fair (RINO-Greenville), Billy O’Dell (RINO- Anderson), Thomas Alexander (RINO-Oconee) and Larry Martin (RINO-Pickens) – received failing grades. So did eighteen State Representatives – including each member of the [...]
Tea Party Scorecard Rips SCGOP Senators
A legislative scorecard released by one of South Carolina’s most credible Tea Party organizations offers fresh proof that the Palmetto State’s “Republican-controlled” Senate is really in the hands of free-spending Democrats. You know … as if the passage of the two largest budgets in state history (here and here) required any supporting documentation.
Only three Republican [...]
A Surplus? Not For SC Taxpayers
South Carolina lawmakers spent a record $20.8 billion during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2011. Actually, they spent more than that – including a pair of $100 million bailouts for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Medicaid agency.
But when it was all said and done … was there any money left over?
“The state ended [...]
Bridget Keeney, Back Again
“Bridget Keeney” is back, people …
Former S.C. Board of Education Chairwoman Kristin Maguire – who resigned her post in 2009 after our website busted her writing incest-themed internet porn under the pen name “Bridget Keeney” – made a memorable appearance at the Pickens County GOP convention on Monday night.
Was she there to read excerpts from [...]
