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MORE THAN 2,000 GATHER TO PROTEST OBAMA SPENDING PLAN
All over the country yesterday, thousands of Americans turned out for dozens of local “Tea Parties” to protest President Obama’s massive spending programs.
In Greenville, more than 2,000 protesters gathered on the banks of the Reedy River to make their voices heard. That, I’m told, was the [...]
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One of the more exciting parts of the gradual redesign process taking place here at The Palmetto Scoop is the new and improved TPS Report.
Launched for the first time on Wednesday to subscribers, the TPS Report is a daily email dose of the day’s [...]
SCGOP TO HOLD PRECINCT MEETINGS NEXT MONTH TO DETERMINE DELEGATES, PLATFORM
There is a lot of the line for South Carolina Republicans in the upcoming upcoming 2010 midterm elections. Besides the wide-open gubernatorial race, the GOP will be forced to fend off Democrats looking to take out U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, the eight statewide constitutional [...]
MAYOR RILEY NOT LIVING UP TO PROMISE TO PROTECT GREEN SPACES
BY LORNA HATTLER | JOHNS ISLAND, SC
In 2004, Charleston voters approved a half-cent sales tax increase after two failed attempts. It was estimated that this tax would raise $1.3 billion over a 25 year period.
A whopping 83 percent was earmarked for mass transit and roads; [...]
TALK SHOW HOST FIRES BACK AGAINST GOVERNOR’S IMPLICATION THAT HE’S ‘AN IDIOT’
Surely, someone with as much “media savvy” as Gov. Mark Sanford knows better than to pick on the loudest voice in his party, talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Yet Sanford walked right into a potential political mine field by saying yesterday that “anybody [...]
ARIZONA SENATOR TO HOST DC FUNDRAISER FOR SC ATTORNEY GENERAL
When Sen. John McCain ran for president, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster was one of his closest confidants and most trusted surrogates. McMaster traveled the state and country stumping for the Arizona Republican and standing by his side at countless campaign events.
Now McCain is [...]
EVERY TIME DEMOCRATS DO SOMETHING, STOCKS PLUMMET
There’s no doubt that a small group of Republicans like South Carolina political boss Warren Tompkins nearly destroyed the GOP over the last few years. And they deserve a great deal of blame for thrusting America into the current economic mess.
But the new Democratic leadership under President Barack [...]
DR. SOMETHING OR OTHER TO FILE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN TOMORROW
When I was told last month that some guy who teaches politics at Furman University was “weighing a run for governor,” I laughed. Then I wrote a post saying that I laughed.
I figured that would be the end of it and this fellah would retreat back [...]
NRO COLUMNIST BLAMES SC ‘RINO’ CONSULTANT FOR DOWNFALL OF REPUBLICAN PARTY
Republicans who are angry about the demise of their party need look no further than South Carolina political consultant Warren Tompkins.
That’s according to National Review columnist Deroy Murdock, who published an editorial today lambasting the “Republican In Name Only” for helping “drive the party into [...]
OBAMA BUDGET PROPOSAL INCLUDES WISE, NECESSARY FUNDING TO COMBAT CHRONIC DISEASE
Today, President Obama will officially unveil his proposed $3.7 trillion FY 2010 federal omnibus budget overview. While his proposal is far from frugal and appears to be loaded with billions of dollars worth of unnecessary spending, there is a silver lining.
Obama has not only [...]
