SC Chief Justice “Improperly Lobbying” For Staffer
S.C. Chief Justice Jean Toal has been accused of exerting improper influence in a contested judicial race on behalf of Rosalyn Frierson – her longtime court...
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Hugh Leatherman’s “Concrete” Corruption?
At a time when road work in the Palmetto State has literally ground to a standstill, a concrete firm co-owned by fiscally liberal S.C. Senate...
Bobby Harrell Yanks PAC Website
Scandal-scarred S.C. Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell’s controversial “leadership PAC” has disappeared from the internet. The website for Harrell’s “Palmetto Leadership Council” – a...
SC: More Transparency Inaction
The notoriously corrupt S.C. House Ethics Committee – which as we’ve pointed out on numerous occasions ought to be abolished – is holding a meeting...
A Plant In SC-1?
South Carolina Democratic operatives say one of their party’s own candidates for the first congressional district seat is actually a Republican plant. In fact it’s...
Lazenby: A Liberal Agreeing With Mick Mulvaney (This Once)
By Amy Lazenby || Today I find myself in the unlikely position of agreeing with Tea Party darling Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). In a piece...
Curtis Loftis Will Seek Reelection As SC Treasurer
S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis affirmed his intention to seek reelection to his current office this week – confirming reports first published here on FITS over...
Sixteen Candles … Err, Candidates
A superfluity of politicians (and wanna-be politicians) formally declared their intention to seek the GOP nomination for South Carolina’s first congressional district. This crowded race...
Sixteen Candidates File For SC First District
Columbia, S.C.- 16 Republican candidates have filed in the special election for South Carolina’s 1st U.S. Congressional District. The candidates will meet in the March...
FBI Probing Democratic Senator
Did U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) pay underage hookers to perform sex acts on him during multiple, undisclosed trips to the Dominican Republic? The...