For the second time in five years, South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" state government is proposing to "reform" the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT). But is that really what's going to happen? Not if things stay as they are ... While we credit GOP lawmakers - and S.C. Gov. Nikki
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley - whose Inspector General's office has done virtually nothing over the last ten months - signed off on legislation that would broaden the scope and increase the power of this heretofore impotent "agency." Good for her. Well ... sort of. Haley's previous posturing on the
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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
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When it comes to passing meaningful reform legislation, S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell has always been, as the saying goes, as "useless as tits on a bull." Occasionally he'll talk a good game, but that's all it's ever been - talk. Of course when it comes to winning palace intrigues and delivering
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Dear Friends, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent and ultimately gave his life for the advancement of our common humanity. On this day set aside to celebrate his life, I am reminded that our purpose here must be for something beyond ourselves. We are placed on this earth to leave it a better place than
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Columbia, SC - Governing, a political magazine and website, named South Carolina State Senator Vincent Sheheen of Camden, one of the top 12 state legislators to watch from around the country. Louis Jacobson, the author of the article says the following of South Carolina's own, Vincent Sheheen: Sen.
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In the wake of a legislative whitewash of her "Savannah River Sellout," S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley went on the offensive Thursday - alleging that Senate hearings into her recent betrayal of our state's economic and environmental interests were nothing more than a political circus engineered by her 2010 gubernatorial
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's "Savannah River Sellout" is getting a nice white coat of paint ... After initially refusing to testify to a Senate panel investigating the debacle, Haley's staffers swore Thursday that they did not improperly pressure the board of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental
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S.C. Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler (RINO-Cherokee) has made a career out of sitting on the fence, but it's looking increasingly like that won't be an option for him as the hottest of Palmetto political hot potatoes has landed in his lap. In response to a request from S.C. Sen. Vincent Sheheen
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Dear friends, We have much to be frustrated about in South Carolina's state government. But during this season of Thanksigiving, I am reminded that my faith teaches me that in everything, we should give thanks. And we have so much to be thankful for in our state. I am thankful for my wife Amy,
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley caught her first big break on Tuesday in the ongoing scandal surrounding her support of Georgia's maritime ambitions ... Responding to a request for an investigation from State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Columbia), S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell (RINO-Charleston) referred
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The Honorable Glenn F. McConnell President Pro Tempore South Carolina Senate 101 Gressette Building Columbia, SC 29201 Dear Senator McConnell: The November 10 decision by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control Board to approve a water-quality permit for dredging operations
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