by WILL FOLKS
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In the latest manifestation of its policy-driven reform agenda, DOGE SC – the pro-citizen movement founded by Lowcountry, South Carolina businessman Rom Reddy – unveiled Covenant 250, a “Palmetto Revolution” blueprint dedicated to making South Carolina “the freest state in America.”
DOGE SC’s project takes its name from the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.
At a launch event held at The Forum in Surfside Beach, S.C. on Thursday evening (August 7, 2025), Reddy told a crowd of nearly 200 activists of his plans to fundamentally reorient the balance of power in the Palmetto State – and how he intends to empower them to help.
“This is not just a policy plan,” Reddy said. “It’s a declaration of independence from the agency state. We are going to every legislator and every citizen in South Carolina with one mission – to restore what the Founders intended and return power and money where it belongs: with the people. 1776 is happening again in 2026. This time we win with ideas, courage and the truth.”
“Our rights come from God, not government,” Reddy continued, noting that every policy endorsed by DOGE SC “is built on this foundational belief – that government must be weak, the citizen must be strong, and the covenant between God and the people must be restored.”
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Armed with a multi-pronged agenda and blue hats for supporters with the words “Palmetto Revolutionary” emblazoned on them, Reddy blasted South Carolina’s failed agency state and the atrocious outcomes it continues to produce.
He then posed a blunt question for those who attended the gathering: “Is your elected official a revolutionary – or part of the problem?”
“We don’t want endorsements, we want commitments,” Reddy said.
During an exclusive sit-down interview with this author prior to the launch event, Reddy provided additional details on Covenant 250 – and how he intends to hold elected officials who are “part of the problem” accountable in the event they continue their status quo subservience.
I also asked him whether he would ever run for office in support of his agenda.
Stay tuned for that full interview soon…
In the meantime, the key pillars of Covenant 250 are as follows…
- Restore Separation of Powers: End legislative dominance over the judiciary and give the people a say with judicial retention elections. Return control of agencies to the executive branch.
- Cut Government Bloat and Empower Citizens: Repurpose 25,000 public jobs to the private sector, eliminate half of SC’s 84,000+ regulations using AI, launch a citizen trust fund to begin returning savings to taxpayers enroute to eliminating the income tax entirely and modifying the regressive property tax system.
- Fix Roads and Schools: Reach a top-20 national education ranking within four years through AI-powered adaptive learning and localize road control to fix the state’s worst infrastructure.
- Use AI to Serve Citizens: Deploy forensic audits, launch citizen dashboards and portals, and use predictive tech to fight crime and disease.
On judicial reform, Reddy wants future governors to have full control over the scandal-scarred S.C. Judicial Merit Selection Commission (SCJMSC) – a legislatively controlled panel which has been instrumental in insulating and enabling all manner of institutional corruption in the Palmetto State.
This corruption – driven by a clique of powerful lawyer-legislators and their trial attorney allies – has materially eroded South Carolina’s competitiveness as well as the safety of its citizens.
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Granting governors control over the panel would begin the process of making South Carolina’s judiciary truly independent, not merely a “division” of the legislature, as Reddy called it. Looking longer-term, Reddy wants to further enhance accountability by passing a constitutional amendment “that gives the citizen a say over judges with a retention election.”
His trust fund would also make it easier for South Carolina to eliminate the income tax, while providing two windfalls to taxpayers (one on July 4 of each year and the other on December 25).
DOGE SC’s agenda obviously included several key items promoted by FITSNews in recent years – including its hybrid method of selecting judges and the creation of the citizen trust fund (a version of which was previously dubbed a taxpayer rebate fund by this outlet).
But Reddy’s Covenant 250 goes much further than anything that’s been previously proposed in South Carolina… just as his plan to aggressively engage electoral politics in upcoming GOP primary cycles is unlike any prior effort to impose accountability on the Palmetto State’s seemingly ungovernable political system.
Stay tuned for additional coverage of DOGE SC’s policy launch (and be on the lookout for my full interview with Reddy).
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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8 comments
Will’s lips seem to be permanently affixed on Rom’s manhood…
*Wanking motion*
Rum Ready has got to be paying Will for this constant fluff job, right? Or more likely Will is a dim dolt who believes any new shiny thing dangled in front of him.
What are the chances that the AI Rum is planning on using is Musk’s Nazi friendly Grok? And what private sector jobs are the public employees going to be “repurposed” into? Once again a bloviating bigmouth with no specifics.
Btw, OG DOGE is having to rehire hundreds of National Weather Service employees, the latest in a string of rehires that you will never hear about on this blahg. DOGE is going to end up costing more than it saved…
I’ve already received my spam text announcement of this launch. I promptly unsubscribed. I miss the days when conservative groups had respect for my privacy and my desire for a peaceful existence, free of unsolicited calls and texts.
Will, explain to me how having the Governor control the judiciary will be better than the legislature?
This article reminds me somewhat of the revolution going on in Laurens County against former county council chairman Brown “His royal fatness, blessed be his name forever” Patterson. This guy has seriously shown his ass lately. He’s ticked off about not being reelected to his chairmanship, and he rarely attends any type of meeting. He spends his time calling people recruiting candidates to run against the council members who voted for his ouster. He really has it in for some guy from Hickory Tavern that’s on council. I know for a fact that he is doing everything that he can do to get a strong candidate to beat this guy next election.
I will say that Brown “His royal fatness, blessed be his name forever” Patterson should be honored to have won the “best boobs” contest at our recent SC Association of Counties convention at Isle of Palms. He went swimming at the pool, and his man boobs were literally the largest, including the ladies present, of anybody there.
Rom, you ain’t a South Carolinian. We don’t need you or your AI that I am sure you will own. You think a Governor selecting judges avoids corruption? Right, you are a dumbass. More political favors. You want public elections so daddy can buy an election for his child that barely passed the bar? Right. Go back up north where you belong. Btw, take your CSAM Freedumb Caucus intellectual midgets with you. We are tired of self serving politicians who never got a spanking growing up.
Please stop all property taxes. As an American, i truly will never own anything, personally, until property taxes are removed. I pay sales tax, income tax, etc. I’m voting for the candidate that wants to stop property tax.