Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller:

Six House Republican freshmen have written to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor demanding they bring a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress to the House floor for a vote as soon as possible.

The members — Reps. Ben Quayle of Arizona, Tim Griffin of Arkansas, Sandy Adams of Florida, Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, Dennis Ross of Florida and Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, all freshmen on the House Judiciary Committee — asked Boehner and Cantor to move as quickly as possible on this and bring the resolution to the House floor for a vote soon.

“Eric Holder was the attorney general when U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by criminals using guns linked to Operation Fast and Furious,” they wrote to the GOP leaders. “As the heads of the Department of Justice, he is responsible for all activities within the department.”

Every third Monday your council meets to take up the issues of running local government and spending … or saving … local government money. Your money.

These meetings are open to the public!

So when in three months something comes up in the paper or on our website that causes you to say “Hey! Where’d that come from? Why did THAT happen?” … I tell you now … it was discussed in a public meeting that you were invited to.

Here are some of the agenda items for Monday. See anything you’re interested in hearing discussed?

Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee
(that may be something you’re interested in)

Water and Sewer Advisory Committee
(or that)

Receive information and take desired action in reference to a Resolution qualifying the property known as Converse Plaza Shopping Center for standard redevelopment incentives as provided for in the Intergovernmental Agreement approved in 2009, also known as the Business Corridor Redevelopment Program
(they’ll be talking about this)

Receive information and take desired action in reference to the Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee
(Accommodations Tax?)

Receive information and take desired action in reference to an Ordinance to amend Section 3.03 Manufactured Homes and Section 3.04 Manufactured Home Parks in the Unified Land Management Ordinance
(Does that impact you?)

AND OF COURSE they’ll be taking up the budget again.

See you Monday?

Well, we lost in the SC legislature. Yesterday Sen. Fair offered a budget proviso that would have suspended funding for the Common Core federal takeover, but it was voted down by the Democrats (except Sen. Setzler) and a number of Republicans (the good guys are the ones who voted Nay, below):

Ayes 29; Nays 13
AYES
Alexander Anderson Campbell
Cleary Coleman Courson
Cromer Ford Gregory
Hayes Hutto Knotts
Land Leatherman Leventis
Lourie Malloy Martin, Larry
Massey Matthews McGill
Nicholson O’Dell Rankin
Reese Ryberg Scott
Sheheen Williams
Total–29

NAYS
Bright Bryant Campsen
Davis Fair Grooms
Martin, Shane Peeler Rose
Setzler Shoopman Thomas
Verdin
Total–13

So, we’ll regroup over the summer and try to do some more education and training on the issue, both among legislators and among the general public. This issue isn’t going away. Thank you for all your help!

Jane Robbins

The S.C. Elections Commission said today that Katrina Shealy’s name cannot appear on the June 12 primary ballot despite being certified by the state GOP executive committee on Wednesday.

The commission said the ballots became official with the names submitted May 4. Shealy had been decertified along with more than 180 other candidates who county parities found had not submitted copies of their statements of economic interest when they filed for office.

The state GOP voted to certify Shealy in her bid to unseat Sen. Jake Knotts of Lexington in the Republican primary because she said she had the form when she filed but was not asked to submit it by county party filing officials.

The state election commission said that would not change the ballots next month.

The hearing featured arguments from Kincannon and Lee’s lawyer Stephen Brown.

Kincannon emphasized that the protest was not personal, but based on fears that the seat could be lost to a Democrat in the event it was determined later on that Lee does not live in District 8. “If the Republican Party nominates Mr. Lee, a Democrat will automatically become the state Senator from that district,” Kincannon said.

But Brown said the protest was strictly a political ploy on behalf of Sen. David Thomas, the incumbent. “David Thomas has been successful in having the line drawn around the home where Jim Lee had lived in District 8 for 15, 16, 17 years, so he is no longer in Senate District 8. That part is true.”

“Gerrymandered out of his district, Lee picked up his family and moved in to an apartment back in the newly redrawn District 8 — back to the district he lived in when he filed. He went to the voter registration office and changed where he’s registered to vote, he changed it with the DMV. He even changed the tax on his home, so instead of being taxed at four percent, the owner-occupied tax .. he changed it to six percent, non owner-occupied tax — the higher tax. He did all of that — guess what? — before he filed.”

Speaking to Patch after the hearing, Lee minced few words. “This was purely politically motivated. There wasn’t any evidence presented. They cared so much about it, even the person who brought the protest didn’t show up. So it was purely politically motivated and designed to take people’s attention and resources away from running this campaign. I can only assume that someone who is associated with the 8th District race has seen some polls and is not happy with the outcome of those polls and tried to everything they can to derail our candidacy.”

They are literally “thick as thieves” in Columbia these days, stealing my vote, for starters, and I’m mad. If people are to be free, it is mandatory that their elections reflect the will of the electorate.

There currently exist two sets of laws dealing with getting one’s name on the ballot. Why? Incumbents are not a protected species and do not deserve special treatment. Each election cycle should begin fresh, with every would-be candidate filing the same set of forms on the same deadline.

South Carolina voters should fire the legislators who created this mess as well as the justices who upheld it. The time has come to “man up” and hold real primaries and elections.

Cibby Krell

I’ve learned that the Florida Secretary of State is ready to announce the massive discovery and purge of tens of thousands of dead voters on the Florida rolls. Sources tell me that over 50,000 dead voters have been discovered and purged from the voter rolls in Florida.

Why wouldn’t this massive number of dead voters been discovered previously? Because Florida was not using all of the available information about who has died across the nation. Once Florida began to use the best available information on who has died, the better information revealed over 50,000 dead voters on the rolls.

Here’s the important part: in most parts of the country, election officials are not using all the possible available information available about who has died across the country. Florida started using a better dead list, and discovered the methods used by most election officials in the nation still kept 50,000 dead voters on the rolls.

Here’s a great article by John Nolte at Breitbart which helps explain why.

I’m going to get you … one by one.

Twitter event that really caught my attention, though, was what happened in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden. All of America was celebrating our president’s only successful decision to date, and it looked as though Obama would get a huge poll bounce as a result. Once again, though, everyday Americans who had taken to Twitter weren’t having any of it. Within hours of the news breaking, people started to ask how Obama could take this credit when it was the policies he opposed regarding enhanced interrogations that resulted in the intelligence that located bin Laden.

This question blew up on Twitter in such a way that, up to that time, only the media could do. It changed the narrative, and as a result of thousands of people having this discussion without their filter, the MSM couldn’t do what they normally would’ve done: ignore something inconvenient to the Left. Suddenly the fact that Obama opposed the very policies that resulted in bin Laden’s death became very much a part of the news narrative and, as a consequence, in my opinion, Obama’s bounce was pretty much of the dead cat variety.

In the ensuing year, again and again, I’ve seen Twitter overwhelm the MSM and their protectors at Media Matters and those phony left-wing fact-checkers. Try as they might, whether it’s about Obama eating a dog, the hypocrisy of the War on Women, or the real facts behind the economic “recovery”; the media cannot ignore a conversation being had by millions upon millions of citizens. Most importantly, they can’t filter or control that conversation. If the media won’t tell the truth or point out the hypocrisies, we will — and the media not only can’t stand that, they’re also forced to grudgingly cover it or look completely out of step with what the “real news” is.

Shealy’s attorney said she saved her online statement of economic interest form but did not file it. She had the form when she filed to run.

Shealy’s attorney said Lexington County GOP officials did not take her statement of economic interest form when she filed to run.

Katrina Shealy said she completed an online statement of economic interest on March 16 and thought she filed it properly.

Katrina Shealy said she prepared a hand-written copy of the statement of economic interest before filing to run March 16.

Katrina Shealy said she was told to file at Shoney’s in West Cola. She said her statement of econ. interest was never requested.

SC State Elections commission could not confirm if Shealy filed a statement online and she has not had a forensic search of her computer

Under cross examination, Shealy said her statement of candidacy form was typed while the statement of econ. interest was hand-written

Shealy said the econ interest form could not be typed because the spaces are too small

Shealy gets round of applause when she realizes a copy of the statement of econ. interest has a date change she says she did not make

Lexington County party worker who took Katrina Shealy’s filings is a friend of her opponent, Sen. Jake Knotts.

Lexington County campaign worker who supports Knotts was asked if she sabotaged Shealy’s filing. “No sir” was the answer

Shealey’s attorney said the Knotts supporter who took her candidate forms was “like a snake in the grass.”

Shealy’s attorney accuses Knotts supporter working for the county GOP of not filing her statement of economic interest.

Gov. Nikki Haley speaks after closing arguments: “I was sick to my stomach watching what I just watched.”

SC GOP exec committee votes unanimously to certify Katrina Shealy for the Senate 23 ballot. She will face Sen. Jake Knotts on June 12

Here is a brief article by Andrew Shain at The State.