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GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE HAS YET TO FILE WITH ETHICS COMMISSION
During a botched, hurried announcement yesterday that he is running for governor, Congressman Gresham Barrett forgot to do something: Tell the South Carolina Ethics Commission.
“Candidates have a 10 day window from the time they raise or spend $500 to file an initial campaign disclosure,” said Kathy Hazelwood, [...]
CONGRESSMAN TO ANNOUNCE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN TODAY
After more than 15 months of speculation, Congressman Gresham Barrett today will make a completely unsurprising move and announce that he is running for governor in 2010.
The Republican told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he plans to launch his bid Wednesday with a mass e-mail that will link to [...]
REX TO LAUNCH PROGRAM TO BUS STUDENTS FROM GOOD DISTRICTS TO BAD, BAD TO GOOD
In a move meant to show his unparalleled ability to take really old ideas and sell them as new, South Carolina Education Superintendent Jim Rex has apparently launched a new program to bus students from good school districts to bad ones, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GOVERNOR: I SAT THERE WITH TEARS IN MY EYES DURING VICTORY SPEECH
It’s no secret that Gov. Mark Sanford wasn’t a very big supporter of the Republican nominee for president last year, Sen. John McCain.
In fact, it was widely rumored that he secretly had a crush on Barack Obama, even before the president was his party’s [...]
GOVERNOR WILL ACCEPT OBAMA’S STIMULUS CASH DESPITE RABID ‘OPPOSITION’ TO LEGISLATION
I’m not sure what kind of music Gov. Mark Sanford listens to, but I can guarantee that Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 classic “Under Pressure” is not on his iPod. That’s because every time the governor feels even a little bit of heat, he [...]
SPEAKER TO INTRODUCE BILL TO RAISE STATE TAX ON SMOKES
South Carolina smokers who thought they dodged a bullet last year when Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed legislation that would have raised the state cigarette tax better take another breath.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell will introduce a bill this week to once again aim to increase the state’s [...]
GUV’S ARGUMENT FOR OPPOSING POWER PLANT USED PHONY FIGURES
Last week Gov. Mark Sanford held a press conference to announce his opposition to Santee Cooper’s much-need coal-fired power plant in Florence County on the grounds that it was too expensive.
During his remarks, Sanford said that rising energy costs would increase the plant’s price tag from $2.5 [...]
