Why We Won’t Be Cheerleading For Chad Connelly Anymore …
We had high hopes back in 2011 when we endorsed SCGOP chairman Chad Connelly’s victorious bid to lead the state’s all-powerful Republican Party. In addition...
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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...
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...