THE EDITOR

Adam Fogle — Adam is a 25-year-old South Carolina politico and the founding editor of The Palmetto Scoop.

He is a 2006 graduate of Georgia Southern University with a degree in broadcast journalism who works for a direct mail firm owned by former SC House Majority Leader Rick Quinn. Prior to founding The Palmetto Scoop, he served as a contributor for the Georgia blog Peach Pundit and ran an independent website supporting the campaign of Republican Max Burns for Georgia’s 12th Congressional District.

He is a lifelong conservative who espouses a pragmatic, not ideological, approach to politics.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Adam Piper – A 2006 Graduate of the University of South Carolina, Adam is a conservative commentator, political operative and public relations practitioner. He has spent the past decade volunteering on countless campaigns, serving as both a Teenage Republican State Chairman and a College Republican State Vice Chairman, and working countless hours for numerous campaigns on a local, state, and national level.

Currently, he is Third Vice Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.

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Mike Beckom – A self-described “inkslinger” from Greenwood, Mike has won first place in the South Carolina Press Association best editorial cartoon section in three out of the last 4 four years. He has also had his cartoons featured in the Pelican Publishing’s “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year” for the last four years and is self-syndicated in over 30 newspapers.

You can visit his personal website at www.CrazyBrainsCartooning.com or view his Scoop Sketches by clicking here.

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Jason Ross – Jason is The Palmetto Scoop’s Sports Editor and leading sports contributor. He is a lifelong South Carolinian whose passion is sports and recreation.

He is a graduate of Virginia Tech University and he, his wife, and their four kids calls the Midlands home.

Jason also runs SC Sports Source, the most comprehensive source of sports and recreation news and information in South Carolina.

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Will Armstrong – Will was born in Chester, SC and grew up in Rock Hill, SC. He attended Northwestern High School from 1998 to 2002 and graduated from the Citadel in 2006 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.

He is currently working at Armstrong Glen, PC in Charlotte, NC. Will enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, hunting, and rock climbing. The Palmetto Scoop is his first adventure in blogging.

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Wild Moose — Little is known about Wild Moose, other than that he can be occasionally seen foraging for fresh fruit in the mountainous regions of the Upstate. And rarely, if you’re lucky, you might catch him posting on The Palmetto Scoop.

More often, however, you can find him writing about music on his blog “Scene SC.” It’s a great site for information on South Carolina bands and hopefully he’ll be bringing some of that goodness on TPS.

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Letters to the Editor – Anyone can submit Letters to the Editor. All you have to do is write something related to South Carolina and send it to editor@palmettoscoop.com. Please include your name and town.

NOTE: TPS is always looking for new contributors. If you think you have what it takes, shoot an e-mail to editor@palmettoscoop.com with your information. If you already have a blog, that helps a lot, so let us know.

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The Scoop on The Scoop

We cover political news and information from South Carolina. The Palmetto Scoop (TPS) has been reinventing and redefining the Palmetto State’s political scene since 2007.

We write about the stuff that the mainstream media misses or ignores. When we’re not breaking huge stories, we’re offering commentary and insider analysis that South Carolinians can’t get anywhere else.

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