CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE LAUNCHES TWO SPOTS … Former South Carolina state lawmaker Ralph Norman is on the air with not one but two television advertisements in this spring’s special...
FIFTH DISTRICT VOTERS HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE … Over all and parts of six decades I covered politics for newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina and...
FRONTRUNNER OUT OF THE GATE WITH INTRODUCTORY TELEVISION SPOT … S.C. Speaker pro tempore Tommy Pope has launched the first ad of his front-running (for now) candidacy...
AS DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY … Penry Gustafson based her congressional campaign on the idea that ordinary people needed a voice in Washington, D.C. – and that...
TAX ATTORNEY JUMPS INTO CONGRESSIONAL RACE … Eviscerated in last fall’s general election, Democrats are nonetheless soldiering on in the South Carolina fifth congressional district (a.k.a....
TOM MULLIKIN REFUSES TO PARTICIPATE IN FORUM MODERATED BY WINTHROP UNIVERSITY POLLSTER … One of the candidates running for South Carolina’s recently vacated fifth congressional district...
SITTING CONGRESSMAN WADES INTO “FIGHTIN’ FIFTH” SPECIAL ELECTION … U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan waded into the crowded race for the Palmetto State’s fifth congressional district on...
SEVEN FOR THE FIFTH … The field for the “Fightin’ Fifth” continues to grow … Penry Gustafson – a former corporate sales representative from Columbia, S.C. –...
FIVE OF SIX CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES SIGN TERM LIMITS PLEDGE … With populism coursing through America’s political bloodstream – especially in “Trump Country” – the issue of...
LAWMAKER PREVIOUSLY SAID IT WASN’T “RIGHT TO LEAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF A TERM” Former S.C. Rep. Ralph Norman made good on his pledge to resign...