A Lowcounty, S.C. family court judge deemed unfit to serve (twice) by a notoriously corrupt state judicial commission is reportedly preparing to sue the commissioners, who include several powerful lawmakers rumored to hold grudges against her based on her rulings.
One of the commission members [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod announced endorsements from eight Democrats, including state lawmakers and county party chairmen. McLeod, a Charleston attorney, is among six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination.
The following Democrats, according to the McLeod campaign, has endorsed McLeod:
Elaine Gentry – Greenwood County Democratic Party Chairwoman [...]
U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett has the poorest attendance record of any lawmaker in Washington, D.C., missing 34.7% of Congressional votes this year, according to an analysis compiled by the Washington Post.
Barrett has missed 337 out of 971 Congressional votes this year – the most of [...]
Over the past several months, Auburn University’s been getting headlines for all the wrong reasons, and university President Jay Gogue is being called in front of Alabama lawmakers for what appear to be conflicts regarding the sale of broadcasting rights to House Minority [...]
Former S.C. lawmakers Wallace Scarborough and Catherine Ceips were married at a private ceremony at Ceips’ waterfront home in Beaufort, S.C. on Saturday, the Hilton Head Island Packet reported over the weekend.
Both Scarborough, 50, and Ceips, 54, lost their reelection bids a year ago [...]
FMR. LAWMAKERS ACCUSED OF AFFAIR TIE KNOT
A pair of former South Carolina lawmakers who both lost their seats after persistent rumors of an extramarital affair have reportedly gotten hitched.
The Charleston Post and Courier reported that former State Sen. [...]
SANFORD URGES SC DELEGATION TO OPPOSE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE
For the first time in the health care debate, Congressional Democrats appear to be willing to pass insurance reform legislation that doesn’t include a so-called “public option.”
On Thursday, lawmakers said they had reached a tentative deal to [...]
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat …
S.C. lawmakers aren’t celebrities – and anybody who says they are is no doubt getting paid a pretty penny (of your money) to say so.
They are legends in their own minds, people, and the fact [...]
U.S. Rep. John Spratt has been added to a Republican list of Democratic lawmakers they hope to convince to retire before the 2010 elections.
The list, first reported by Hotline On Call, was compiled by the National Republican Congressional Committee and is informally known as the "Dem Retirement Assault List."
Read [...]
U.S. Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) is pushing a proposal to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.5 trillion – the largest hike in American history and the second increase in ten months.
Like common credit card theives, lawmakers have already spent the [...]
We’re not big on social graces, people, but we do know what the inside of a Florence County, S.C. Christmas party looks like.
But surely our sources are wrong … surely that’s not S.C. Rep. Phillip Lowe getting down at one of these exclusive [...]
S.C. Majority Leader Kenny Bingham (RINO – Lexington) has won the General Assembly’s 2009 “Dapper Dan Man” award for a record ninth consecutive year.
Awarded annually to the lawmaker whose excessive use of hair product “embodies” the excesses of the legislative branch, “Slick” (as Bingham is [...]
Gov. Mark Sanford's attorneys have argued lawmakers are attempting to remove the governor from office by "splitting hairs" over whether Sanford violated state Ethics laws.
A panel of House lawmakers considering impeachment is questioning Sanford's attorneys about nine charges from the S.C. State Ethics Commission about whether Sanford's use of state [...]
We take South Carolina lawmakers at their word when they tell us that their “new” government email system will enable them to provide “better service” to their constituents.
Except no … no we don’t.
These vermin lie for a living, folks, and taking them [...]
The S.C. House of Representatives formally opened hearings Tuesday into whether or not disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford should be impeached.
A House Judiciary subcommittee met for almost an hour on the subject, a mostly perfunctory hearing during which lawmakers sparred over whether Sanford’s five-day absence [...]
South Carolina lawmakers have removed their taxpayer-funded email addresses from the Internet, substituting a much less personal (and presumably less read) electronic feedback form in their place.
Lawmakers will continue to have access to a taxpayer-funded email account, but those email addresses will not be [...]
S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford will find a receptive audience of state lawmakers when a resolution calling for his impeachment is heard before a House subcommittee on Tuesday afternoon, sources tell FITS.
The governor – who is facing a separate 37-count ethics complaint – enjoys the support [...]
The Education Oversight Committee (EOC) was established in 1998 as part of the Educational Accountability Act (EAA). Lawmakers envisioned a small agency, outside of the existing Education Department, providing legislators and parents with details of student and school performance.
Many in Columbia, and across the State, feel the EOC [...]
JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE TO MEET TUESDAY AT 1 P.M. IN COLUMBIA
South Carolina lawmakers are wasting no time taking up an impeachment resolution that seeks to remove Gov. Mark Sanford from office.
A five-member Judiciary subcommittee will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss the bill, which was [...]
Disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is aggressively recruiting candidates to run in Republican primaries against the GOP sponsors of an impeachment resolution against him, sources tell FITS. In targeting these lawmakers – including one who has supported his policies in the past – the governor is [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is running television ads targeting three veteran democratic lawmakers who voted in favor of President Barack Obama’s $1.2 trillion (some say $2.6 trillion) socialized medicine proposal – including S.C. Rep. John Spratt.
The other lawmakers targeted by the ads are [...]
State Lawmakers are making plans for their return to Columbia in January.
Here is a list of bills they have already submitted that deal with K-12 education policy and the revenues collected to fund it’s $8.4 billion appetite.
H. 4169 – Candidate of the [...]
PANEL MOSTLY MUM AFTER MARATHON CLOSED-DOOR MEETING
Less than a day after lawmakers introduced a bill to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford, the South Carolina State Ethics Commission says there is “probably cause” for several charges against the disgraced governor.
The [...]
Evidently tired of getting shafted by South Carolina GOP lawmakers in the state budget, a group of Palmetto State solicitors is hoping to bring some serious political muscle on board to help them “get theirs” in what is expected to be a cutthroat budget year.
Specifically, [...]
