Friday, May 18, 2012
Dorchester County Councilman David Chinnis writes Summerville Patch, defending the county regarding vehicle use.
I read with interest the statements made by Roger Goodman in his Letter to the Editor and since, in my opinion, Mr. Goodman’s accusations cast the entire Council in a negative light I feel compelled to respond. While it may not be apparent to all, Jason Ward and/or his staff keep all County Council members informed of issues occurring at the County level, especially ones that involve constituents, our own and those of other districts. Click here to read Ward's statement regarding vehicle use. I received a copy of an email response to Mr. Goodman’s FOIA request noting the estimated amount of time and personnel it would take to gather the information requested by Mr. Goodman and the cost to the County and thus the taxpayer, to research six …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Party official admits tweet was improper, takes down personal account.
A South Carolina Democratic Party official has been reprimanded for calling Gov. Nikki Haley a "Sikh Jesus" on the social networking site Twitter. Phil Bailey, the political director for South Carolina Senate Democrats, was apparently reprimanded for the tweet at a luncheon today, according to the Associated Press. Bailey's Twitter account has since been closed, and he has apparently admitted the comment was inappropriate. Bailey's comments Wednesday came after GOP leaders voted to put a candidate Haley backs on the ballot after the individual was ruled ineligible. Haley, raised in a Sikh, Indian-American household, is now a Methodist. Read the full story.
District will ask voters to approve a referendum in the fall.
In a workshop Wednesday at the district office, school board members approved moving forward with a referendum not to exceed $177 million and approved allowing Superintendent Joe Pye to form a nonprofit committee charged with campaigning the referendum before the November general election. "We had a list that could have been $400 or $500 million ... these are catch-up items," Pye said. "We have done without for a very long time and we're first in line." The meeting came just days after the school board presented a $148 million expenditure budget, adding less than $5 million over the previous year. The school board will present the budget to Dorchester County Council 7 p.m. Monday at the Summerville chambers. See the budget presented …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Comments came on personal Twitter feed.
UPDATED 4:50 p.m. Thursday Multiple media outlets are reporting that South Carolina GOP Chair Chad Connelly has called for the ouster of Phil Bailey. The Twitter account of Bailey is reported to have been closed and Bailey ackowledged his comments were a mistake at a caucus lunch today with his colleagues. ---------------------- Phil Bailey, the political director of the S.C. Senate Democratic Caucus, came under fire Wednesday night after calling Gov. Nikki Haley as the "Sikh Jesus" on his personal Twitter account. Haley is a practicing Methodist whose parents were born in India. Sikh is one of the dominant religions in India. The comments came in response to what Bailey thought was the governor's involvement at the hearing to determine …
South Carolina expected to continue to stay red.
Mitt Romney and South Carolina voters have never been a very good match. Whether it is the former Massachusetts governor’s religion or his lack of consistency on issues that matter to the Palmetto State’s overwhelmingly conservative electorate, Romney just hasn’t aroused much passion. He finished a distant fourth in the 2008 South Carolina Primary with 15 percent of the vote. This year, as the presumptive GOP nominee and with the support of Gov. Nikki Haley and State Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Romney finished 12 percentage points behind Newt Gingrich. Such apathy towards Romney gave Democrats hope that maybe South Carolina could be winnable after all. A poll in December confirmed as much. Last month, Karl Rove said that the state is up for …
Candidate for county council, Goodman writes Patch regarding county vehicle usage and media coverage.
I am Roger W. Goodman, Candidate for County Council #6. I decided some time ago to attempt to make a difference in our local Government with the blessings of my wife. I and my wife have run this campaign with some help from friends. I believe hard work and honesty is the key to success in your country and that why I do not have a campaign staff. My principles tell me if you believe in something and want it do not ask others to do the work for you. I brought up both of my step children with the same principles I have; hard work, integrity, honesty and character is how you earn respect. I have been working with the help of my wife to spread my message of Leadership, Honesty, Integrity and Accountability and a new real voice for Dorchester …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Yet another sign that people are upset with the Lexington senator.
UPDATE (8:30 p.m. May 15, 2012): Ben Smith at BuzzFeed clarified in his post this afternoon that the source was anonymous. The story has been changed to reflect this. ORIGINAL: As if Sen. Jake Knotts, R-Lexington, didn't already have enough trouble, exclusive video has now surfaced of his infamous "raghead" remarks on Gov. Nikki Haley, prior to her 2010 election. Tuesday afternoon, BuzzFeed released a previously unseen video of Knotts' appearance on the Columbia online political show Pub Politics on June 3, 2010. In the video, Lexington Sen. Jake Knotts criticizes both Barack Obama and Gov. Nikki Haley, who at the time was a house member, just days before she won the GOP nomination for governor. During the show, Knotts was quoted as saying…
The Club for Growth released its scorecard Tuesday of the "Tea Party" freshmen, which included four from South Carolina.
South Carolina's four freshmen congressmen scored well among their peers swept into office in 2010's Tea Party election, according to a report Tuesday from the Club for Growth. The organization said promises of fiscal responsibility from most of the 87 freshmen across the country "have proven to be empty." The freshmen received an average score of 71 percent, compared to a 69 percent rating among veterans. But South Carolina's Mick Mulvavey, Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy and Tim Scott bucked the trend, scoring very well in the survey. Scott, the only Republican freshman in a leadership position, scored a 92. And the other three S.C. freshmen congressmen were among the top 10 in the country, according to the Club for Growth: Mulvaney (99), Duncan…
Should Republican candidates be accountable for vendor's past clients?
A vendor, which has helped to build many GOP candidate websites in the Summerville area, has deleted links showing it aided in website work for a soft pornography website. Summerville Media Group, a local web and graphic design company, came under scrutiny Sunday with a blog posting by liberal blogger Rob Groce, who claimed the Republican party's "clean" message might be tarnished by using a vendor with less-than-clean clients. SMG and its affiliated company, 106 Designs, works on sites for Rep. Chris Murphy, District 97 candidate Ed Carter and others in the Summerville area. While Groce claims the company touted work on Sexy Skin Magazine as late as Sunday, SMG owner Jamie Lucarelli said the work was old and links to the work were taken…
Monday, May 14, 2012
Federal judges threw out a lawsuit that claimed the State Election Commission's decision to send partial ballots to military and overseas voters was a violation of federal law.
A federal three-judge panel rejected a claim Monday that military voters don't have enough time to vote in South Carolina state and local primary elections. A state Senate candidate filed the lawsuit last week after a state Supreme Court decision knocked almost 180 candidates off the June 12 primary ballot for failing to file statement of economic interest forms properly. The judges ruled that plaintiff Amanda Somers, who is running for state Senate District 5 in the Upstate, does not have standing to make the claims because her voting rights are not at stake and her attorney could not prove she would be harmed by any possible loss of military votes. Somer's lawyer, Todd Kincannon, argued that sending ballots that only had federal races …
Chris Winston
1:21 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Stanley, I'm suggesting I don't know what she practices religiously. But since I SEE her at Mount Horeb, I thought was worth pointing out. more ›