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by WILL FOLKS
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With 2026 emerging as a critical year for South Carolina’s future – and a potentially transformative year assuming reformers make the gains they are expected to make in the S.C. General Assembly – it’s not surprising that battle lines have been hastily drawn ahead of a contentious political season.
Nor is it surprising how quickly the long knives have come out ahead of the impending trench warfare…
Millions of dollars will be spent this year to (re)shape the Palmetto State’s political landscape – with candidates, political action committees and dark money groups aggressively engaging in all sorts of messaging efforts across multiple media platforms.
Is anything off-limits as this latest political showdown ensues?
Apparently not…
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This week, multiple political operatives provided FITSNews with a series of racy nude and semi-nude images purportedly depicting the wife of a South Carolina lawmaker engaged in various intimate activities… with another woman.
The images are public – having been posted to a social media account belonging to a woman allegedly photographed alongside the political spouse (and with whom the political spouse allegedly had a relationship of some sort).
“People in Columbia (are) talking about it,” one of the politicos who furnished us the photos said, hinting at the alleged bisexuality of the lawmakers’ wife.
“It’s game over for him with primary voters if these get out,” another strategist who shared the images observed. “Stick a fork in him.”
Much to the chagrin of some in our audience, we are not publishing the images – nor are we linking to them or naming the lawmaker’s spouse (or her husband).
Why not?
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Because as much as that might be the “shock value” move – or hearken back to the early days of FITSNews – doing so seems unsporting and devoid of any journalistic purpose. Also, the images we were provided seem to have been publicly posted prior to the woman’s wedding to the lawmaker – with no indication as to when they were originally taken prior to that date.
Or whether the lawmaker’s wife is even aware they were published…
In other words, there’s no real nexus linking the photos to the lawmaker… or anything establishing their potential relevance to, well, anything.
So… what is the relevance of all this for those of us covering the upcoming election?
Easy… anybody campaigning in the notoriously rough-and-tumble Palmetto State in 2026 better buckle their chinstrap. Tight. Because it’s sure looking like the only rule of the upcoming campaign cycle… is that there are no rules.
Welcome to the Thunderdome, y’all…
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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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12 comments
That was about a nothingburger of an article.
Clickbait article if there ever was one. Nice job Folks, lmao
That should have been a post on the Ring neighbors app. Fireworks or gunshots?
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What a piece of shit clickbait. Garbage.
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You obviously know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?
great put up, very informative. I ponder why the other experts of this sector don’t notice this. You must continue your writing. I am confident, you have a great readers’ base already!
I remember the good ol’ days when FitsNews would have been the first site to post the pictures. Back when Will was plastering pages full of politicians, who they were fucking, photos of the new girlfriend and descriptions of what happened. It was like reading a copy of the Penthouse Forum. Now he’s turning into Brad Warthen, won’t be long before Will starts articles about what books he should re-read for the 13th time.
For the executive summary: “Somewhere, somebody did something”.
Not a real surprise. Lots of lawmakers in Columbia- especially those screaming about how religious they are- seem to be messing around all the time these days.
Will is an idiot domestic abuser who is trying to act like he has integrity because his slack jaw was on a Netflix show. He doesn’t have integrity, plus he knows people have a bunch of shit on him – audio, photos, video. He’s just a weak little boy trying to hold on to a failing website that no one cares about. I literally check it once a year just to see how shitty South Carolina is and how pathetic it is that pathetic northerners like Will move down south and realize they’re even more pathetic in the south than as a slack jawed yankee. God that face betrays as much ignorance as it does domestic violence and shitty character. No matter how he tries to pose or stop wearing little boy baseball caps in favor of cheap suits, you can read in his face that he’s just a sad idiot. South Carolina blows because the only people it attracts are hillbillies from the north trying to escape educated cities. LOLZ