Wire: Shoes, Scandal, Etc.

We get lots of tips, comments and questions about stuff we write … and stuff people want us to write.
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Wire: Fair Tax, Drunk Taxis, Etc.

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Wire: Obama, Gators, Harrell, Etc.

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Vincent Sheheen’s Transparency Gauntlet

S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Camden) is once again throwing down the transparency gauntlet for Gov. Nikki Haley to pick up – voluntarily releasing the last dozen years of personal income tax returns and challenging her to do the same.
“Without ethical leaders, we won’t have ethical government,” Sheheen said in a statement. “I have chosen to [...]

Vincent Sheheen Releases Tax Returns

Senator calls for leaders to “walk the walk” on transparency and ethics reform
Camden, SC – Today, Sen. Vincent Sheheen released his 2011 and 2012 tax returns. These returns join the ten years of tax returns that Sen. Sheheen released during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, and statements of income disclosure from his time in the Senate [...]

Nikki Haley’s Biggest Liability

Even when he was steering her into the upstairs bedroom of his downtown Columbia, S.C. townhouse, our founding editor never steered Nikki Haley wrong.
(Ba doom … ching).
For real, though. In less than a year’s time Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) turned an unknown, skittish state lawmaker into a limited government heroine and a legitimate statewide [...]

Nikki Haley “White Supremacy” Scandal Escalates

Four days ago, this website broke the news that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s 2014 reelection committee included an alleged white supremacist, one Roan Garcia Quintana.
Quintana’s alleged white supremacy – detailed in this Democratic memo obtained exclusively by our website – has since gone viral, receiving extensive play from numerous statewide and national media outlets.
We still [...]

SC Lawmakers Call On Haley To Remove White Supremacist

Columbia, SC – Today Senator Joel Lourie and House Democratic Leader Rep. Todd Rutherford called on Governor Haley today to immediately remove and condemn Roan Garcia Quintana, a white supremacist, from her campaign committee. The letter below was sent to Governor Haley via email earlier this afternoon.
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Dear Governor Haley,
South Carolina is a place that has [...]

Sheheen: Haley Should Disavow White Supremacist

Camden, SC – In response to news reports that surfaced this week that Governor Haley appointed a white supremacist leader to her reelection campaign steering committee, Sheheen for South Carolina released this statement from Sen. Vincent Sheheen:
“Nikki Haley’s appointment of a white supremacist to her re-election steering committee and refusal to renounce his beliefs is [...]

SC Dems Bite Back!

A day after South Carolina Republicans made some nice hay over a dubious endorsement by the S.C. Democratic Party’s likely 2014 standard bearer, they found themselves on the receiving end of a similar “burn.”
On Thursday, Republicans pounced on the fact that S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Camden) – the Democrats’ presumed 2014 gubernatorial nominee – endorsed [...]

“Republicans For Obama” In The SC Senate

The South Carolina State Senate has been controlled by “Republicans” since 2001. How’s that working out for the people of the Palmetto State?
Terribly … 
Led by former Democrats (like finance chairman Hugh Leatherman and rules chairman Larry Martin) and big government RINOs (like education chairman John Courson and ethics chairman Wes Hayes) the South Carolina Senate [...]

The Ted Vick Dash Cam Video Remix

Talk about killing two birds with one stone …
With one clever bit of editing, South Carolina “Republicans” popped a pair of Palmetto State Democrats this week – “re-disgraced” S.C. Rep. Ted Vick (D-Chesterfield) and State Senator Vincent Sheheen, the party’s likely gubernatorial nominee in 2014.
How’d they manage to pull such a two-fer? Easy: They took [...]