Archive for April, 2012

S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell’s PAC doled out big money in campaign donations

Renee Dudley at The Post and Courier with a substantial article on PACs, money, incumbency, and what happens when the SC Speaker of the House directs big money contributions to sitting legislators: South Carolina’s House speaker is affiliated with a political action committee that has doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and [...]

April 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Remember when Princess Nancy said she’d never been briefed re: Waterboarding?

Marc A. Thiessen, reporting at the Washington Post about a book released today by former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez entitled “Hard Measures”: Recall that in a Capitol Hill news conference three years ago, Pelosi (D-Calif.) vehemently denied being told about the use of waterboarding at a CIA briefing in September 2002. “We were not [...]

April 30, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Jeff Duncan – Fact v. Fiction on CISPA Bill

I was surprised that the SC delegation voted for this bill last week, but didn’t have time to investigate. So here is Jeff Duncan with a comprehensive write up on the bill and his vote. Background: CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is legislation, passed by the House, intended to help protect American [...]

April 30, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Who is impacted in Spartanburg by the SC election mess?

There are lists of candidates floating around who may be impacted by the filing situation with the Statements of Economic Interest rule change I blogged about a while ago. Who in impacted in Spartanburg County? According to SCNOW.com: H. David Britt – needs to Amend and file as 2012 Candidate Charles R. “Rusty” Clevenger – [...]

April 30, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

A Fine Mess in SC Election Politics

A brief BRIEF summary: The election commission changed the rules from last election to this election. Last election (and previous elections) candidates had to fill out their Statement of Economic Interest at the same time they filled out the other forms they needed to file to run for a seat. In the interim the rule [...]

April 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Twitter. The new battleground for the #WAR on liberty

You’ve all heard me talk/blog about Twitter and how I get about 90% of my news through Twitter and have for several years. It’s not for everyone, but it works superbly for me, since I sit in front of 3 computers all day for my job. And a few of you have ventured onto Twitter! [...]

April 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Donna Wood running for Statehouse District 37

Many of us know that Donna Wood filed to be a candidate for Statehouse District 37, the district currently represented by Steve Parker, but not everyone … so I thought I’d remind and inform the Spartanburg Tea Party of another “one of us” candidate! As a first time candidate running for the House, Donna is [...]

April 29, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

UN Agenda 21 invades SC Shopping Malls

H3604 from the SC Statehouse.gov website: I swear I hesitated to post this because I truly thought it was a parody. If it IS a parody please tell me right away. I notice the last amended date is May 17. That doesn’t relive my angst. Here are some of the items: Last Amended on May [...]

April 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Jim Lee BBQ. Stand with Jim as one of his sponsors.

We’re full out campaigning in the upstate! Events, debates, forums, fundraisers, door-to-door … patriots are committed to having our voice heard in Columbia next legislative session! We have different skills and abilities, and each campaign needs folks to step up in different ways. Jim Lee, who many of us have come to know in Greenville [...]

April 28, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Amazon to begin collecting sales tax in Texas

Adi Robertson at The Verve has this story: Amazon’s tax status has long been a sore point for local and national governments. The online retailer doesn’t collect sales tax in most US states, something that critics say both deprives states of revenue and gives it an unfair advantage over local businesses. On its latest SEC [...]

April 27, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment