Politics
The Buzz: Time for the Teleprompter?
Gov. Nikki Haley, clearly going off-the-cuff Tuesday about the need to reform South Carolina’s ethics laws, may have left out a couple of key words in her impassioned plea last week to state senators to pass a bill awaiting their approval.
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Old political foes wrestle over controversial Haley campaign volunterer
State Sen. Vincent Sheheen of Camden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for governor in 2014, Saturday joined calls for SC Gov. Nikki Haley to dismiss a co-chairman with her grass-roots re-election campaign committee that has ties to a white-supremacist group, civil-rights groups say.
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A pay raise? It’s complicated, some SC agencies say
After a long night last month of trying to balance the state budget’s for next year, the Senate Finance Committee had $15.8 million left over – just enough to give state employees a 1 percent pay raise. But it’s not that simple.
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The rise of the SC Senate’s far right
Members of the William Wallace Caucus want to nullify federal laws, give tax deductions to parents who send their children to private schools, end abortion and let South Carolinians — except criminals — carry handguns in public without a permit. The caucus is growing in influence.
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Haley rebuffs Dem demands that she dismiss controversial advisor
Gov. Nikki Haley’s re-election campaign has no plans to remove a volunteer who S.C. Democrats and others say has ties to white supremacist groups.
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Graham and Scott report financial holdings
South Carolina’s U.S. senators have most of their wealth in real estate and took advantage of low interest rates to refinance mortgages last year, according to their latest personal financial disclosure statements.
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SC Senate OKs tax credits for private-school grants, teacher supplies
Offered by state Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, the tax credit was part of a larger plan to give tax credits to parents who send their children to private school that lawmakers rejected Wednesday.
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SC political briefs, May 24
2 S.C. groups say they were targeted by IRS; $25M coming to SC bank accounts following lawsuit
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SC Senate passes $500 million road-repair deal
The deal was made when the Senate voted to spend $50 million a year to repair state roads and bridges. The money would go to the State Infrastructure Bank, which would use it to borrow up to $500 million.
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SC political briefs, May 23
SC Senate OKS hacking fund; SC budget advances; Sen. Ford seeks dismissal of ethics charges
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SC congressman grills IRS officials
An Internal Revenue Service official tried to evoke her Fifth Amendment rights in a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, but she could now be forced to face committee members after U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-Spartanburg, questioned her tactics.
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