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Lee Bright’s Income Disclosure: Still Not Filed

While his Republican colleagues in the S.C. General Assembly are pushing for expanded income disclosure at the state level, S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) has yet to file his federal income disclosure forms. And his delay continues to raise speculation about just what he might be hiding … Bright –…

While his Republican colleagues in the S.C. General Assembly are pushing for expanded income disclosure at the state level, S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) has yet to file his federal income disclosure forms.

And his delay continues to raise speculation about just what he might be hiding …

Bright – one of four GOP candidates challenging liberal Lindsey Graham in next June’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate – was supposed to have filed his income disclosure paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) months ago. In fact he’s now well beyond what was supposed to be a hard-and-fast ninety-day deadline for submitting this information.

“The total number of days for any extension granted for any one report may, not exceed 90 days under federal law,” the agency’s rulebook states.

Apparently that deadline is a bit looser than it appears, though.

According to Bright’s campaign, he has received another extension from the FEC – and his disclosure information now isn’t due “until late December.”

Yeah … just in time for the holidays (when absolutely no one is paying attention to politics).

“Candidates are routinely allowed extensions beyond the 90-day limit so this is within normal procedure guidelines,” Bright campaign spokesman Michael Stevens told FITS.

Really?

Okay. But wouldn’t a champion of transparency in government – one who has been blasting rival candidates over the financial information contained in their income disclosure forms – want to be beyond reproach on this front?

Earlier this week FITS reported on Bright’s late filing – referencing his previous financial troubles and concerns his disclosure might contain a “land mine” capable of sinking his campaign before it ever really set sail.

“Lee’s campaign is over once he files that document,” one source told us, citing a “litany” of bankruptcy and tax issues.

Bright’s campaign is disputing that assessment.

“Those issues are just rumor and nothing else,” Stevens told FITS. “There’s nothing to this extension other than the fact that Lee is very busy running around the state aggressively campaigning. It’s fully within FEC guidelines to have this routine extension so no rules are being broken.”

Really? Are all the other candidates not also “busy running around the state aggressively campaigning?” Yet they managed to file their paperwork on time …

Were Bright’s personal financial history in ship shape we might be inclined to buy his campaign’s excuses … however given that the potential exists for some damaging revelations to come to light as a result of it being filed, this strikes us as an effort to bury the truth.

Or at least delay its release until a time when no one is paying attention …

Bright is one of four announced challengers to Graham. The others are Lowcountry businesswoman Nancy Mace, Upstate businessman (and former congressional candidate) Richard Cash and Orangeburg, S.C. attorney (and Afghan War veteran) Bill Connor.

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21 comments

RandPaul2016 November 16, 2013 at 3:35 pm

FitsNews is finding anything they can to attack Lee Bright since he is doing much better than their beloved Nancy Mace. If Lee Bright is such a moron like they claim than let Lee sink his own ship and don’t attack him on such petty things!

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Syd A Dell November 16, 2013 at 4:07 pm

Also known as the beloved first female graduate of some military school.

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SCBlues November 16, 2013 at 9:38 pm

I’m no fan of Mace (or any Republican for that matter) but based on the well documented financial “irregularities” in Bright’s past – and most of them not distant past – I’m not sure I would call them “petty things”. But then again you Teabaggers might consider them petty so who knows . . .

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Rand Fan November 16, 2013 at 10:34 pm

Lee is DOA.

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Still has enough money to eat November 16, 2013 at 4:43 pm

Normal politicians go on tour kissing babies. Lee Bright goes on tour eating them.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 16, 2013 at 4:49 pm

Bright is one of four announced challengers to Graham. The others are Lowcountry businesswoman Nancy Mace, Upstate businessman (and former congressional candidate) Richard Cash and Orangeburg, S.C. attorney (and Afghan War veteran) Bill Connor.

Bright is one of four announced challengers to Graham. The others are Lowcountry businesswoman (and first female graduate of The Citadel) Nancy Mace, Upstate businessman (and former congressional candidate) Richard Cash and Orangeburg, S.C. attorney (and Afghan War veteran) Bill Connor.

Fixed it fer ya!

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shifty henry November 16, 2013 at 6:45 pm

—- the first WHITE female graduate of The Citadel…..

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 17, 2013 at 2:28 pm

Please ‘splain.

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Buford Pusser November 17, 2013 at 1:55 pm

Remind me who was Commandant during her tenure at the Citadel? Oh, I almost forgot, it was her father.

I don’t really care, but I do find it interesting that neither FITS never seems to mention this tidbit. Who here thinks that if one of the other candidates was making a big deal out of graduating the Citadel while their father was Commandant FITS would be all over them?

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 17, 2013 at 2:24 pm

Buford Pusser

Totally off topic, but it’s that kind of day…

Used to be a seafood restaurant at the City Marina called “Pusser”s Landing”. TBG thought that they should have also opened one in Beaufort……..

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anon. November 16, 2013 at 5:27 pm

TICK, TOCK Lee Bright, TICK, TOCK.

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SparkleCity November 16, 2013 at 10:22 pm

I tried to tell y’all………………………….

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hack November 17, 2013 at 9:45 am

When that report is filed the circus will really begin.

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Mike at the Beach November 17, 2013 at 8:17 pm

This whole campaign (due to the players involved) is an exercise in hubris and futility. Even if these clowns force Sugarbritches into a runoff (and that’s a big “if”) he’ll just smash the second-place finisher (aka “tallest midget in the circus”) and get back to business. If Sugarbritches does manage to get 50% plus-one on night one, these four need to run on back home and change their names.

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Pot Smoker November 18, 2013 at 8:32 am

Just smoke more pot, the intelligent choice, ban cigarettes and watch Miss Lindsey run.

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whatabout November 18, 2013 at 10:02 am

At what point do we stop buying into any “conservative” candidate who wraps themselves in the flag and says “liberty” every other word and actually look for candidates who walk-the-walk and actually have a deep understanding of the principles for which they supposedly avow?

It has almost literally come to the point where some of my fellow conservative would vote for a dog if they received a mailer with the words “conservative” and “liberty” printed on them next to a guy wearing an american flag t-shirt.

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The King November 18, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Would vote for anyone over the moron in office right now.

Wish one of our US Reps had the gumption to go up against the machine.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 18, 2013 at 6:34 pm

Totally in agreement, Elvis(?)!!!

Richard Petty(?)

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Philip Branton November 18, 2013 at 11:05 am

Boomerang 202, 404, 606, move Hunt tomato Ketchup “anticipation” commercial ahead 2 spaces add 1 Lobby domino, wager 2 bitcoin accounts, Facebook USC School of Political Media, Patty Cake Nancy Mace checking account

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nitrat November 18, 2013 at 3:26 pm

Obviously, (not) filing his financial disclosures is indicative of how he ‘ran’ his businesses…ya think?

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Ralph Hightower November 18, 2013 at 7:56 pm

With a name like Bright, he’s not the brightest light bulb.

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