Tweet Pretty much everybody is celebrating the pending departure of Lee Bright from the S.C. Senate – the governor, the state Chamber’s political entity, and liberals everywhere. So many people had so many reasons to want him gone that I hadn’t even noticed how much the conservationists disliked them, as they reminded me last night in […]
TweetThe shenanigans of state Sen. Lee Bright have attracted a primary challenger for next year: Greer businessman David McCraw is challenging state Sen. Lee Bright for the Republican nomination next year for Senate District 12, pointing to Bright’s support of the Confederate flag and his failure to back a GOP roads plan. McCraw, 48, said […]
TweetThere are two measurements for how far we have so suddenly come on the Confederate flag issue. The first is on the positive side — all the people who once would have opposed removing the flag, or ignored it, coming suddenly and dramatically to the point that they are convinced along with the rest of us […]
TweetNot that you would likely make that mistake, but just as a reminder, I pass on his release from this morning: Establishment Republican Trying to Seduce Obama Voters On the eve of Lindsey Graham having to face his top challenger, Lee Bright, at the polls, Team Graham is running a quiet campaign to woo Democrats. […]
Tweet… which is pretty much his whole campaign strategy, near as I can tell. Anyway, here’s the release from the challenger: Becoming Obama’s Top Spokesman on ObamaCare, Shutdown Lindsey Graham went on Fox News yesterday to continue undercutting Ted Cruz and other conservatives on their strategy to defund and delay ObamaCare, and force the President’s […]
TweetHave you seen this? Lee Bright to Face “YouTube Lindsey” in Debate Thursday’s debate will contrast two very different voting records. State Senator Lee Bright is personally challenging establishment incumbent Lindsey Graham to a debate, and Thursday night in Columbia, the challenger will debate a YouTube version of Graham at the South Carolina Troopers Association, […]
TweetWhat with the holidays and all, I didn’t get around to snorting in derision at the latest secessionist (or at least nullificationist) nonsense from state Sen. Lee Bright: CHARLESTON, S.C. — A proposed piece of legislation intends to exempt pistols and rifles made in South Carolina from federal regulation as long as they stay in-state. […]
Tweet No, I don’t know how Keyser Söze did, but there were few surprises in tonight’s results. Let’s review: Henry McMaster. This should have been the least-surprising result of all. McMaster is the incumbent after all, installed by his party’s president, who owed him big-time. Any suspense there was in this race was provided by the […]
TweetAndy Brack of Statehouse Report was working on a piece for today about the primaries and sent me some questions. Well, y’all know how I hate to write anything, however impromptu and off-the-cuff, without publishing it. So here are his questions with my answers: 1. What did you learn and what are your takeaways from the primaries? […]
Tweet As I said on my previous post (although I might as well have been pounding my head against a wall as far as Doug is concerned), if you want to make things better in the S.C. Senate via the ballot box, try to get rid of the worst senators, not the best ones. This […]
TweetWow, how many times have I said that over the past quarter century? Actually, it’s easier to count the number of times I’ve been heeded by our solons at the State House. It’s somewhere around zero. Through most of its history, South Carolina basically didn’t have much in the way of local government, especially on […]
TweetAs you’ll recall, yesterday I said this about the company that is precipitously deciding to move from Charleston (supposedly, although its presence in Charleston seems theoretical) to California over the Bathroom Bill: I hate to break it to this guy, but there’s a distinct possibility that there’s a lawmaker in California just as loony as […]
TweetI’m reacting to this rather preemptive action on the part of a businessman down in Charleston: A senate bill that would outlaw transgender men and women from using the bathroom of their choice has caused a Charleston-based company to decide to move to the West Coast. Anthony Watson, CEO of Uphold, described himself as an […]
TweetThis is just bizarre, people. They’re already having a hearing on Lee Bright’s Bathroom Bill — Wednesday morning. We’re talking about a bill that fits neatly, or should, into the “people can file a bill about anything, but that doesn’t mean it will go anywhere” category. If anyone in the State House agrees with Bright […]
Tweet This is a small matter, but I felt that someone should point out what should be obvious… I got this email from a group calling itself SC Good Government Committee… No, excuse me, “sc good government committee,” e.e. cummings-style. The release basically attacked Sen. Lee Bright’s Bathroom Bill for distracting from important issues in our […]
TweetWhat the governor is saying about the Bathroom Wars is a bit oblique, and probably deliberately so: S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that a bill that would limit what bathrooms transgender people can choose is unnecessary because South Carolinians already are respectful to people from different backgrounds. “When we look at our situation, we’re […]
TweetAnd I’m so glad I got over there just in time to see it. Of course, that made it seem even more quick and painless to me — I didn’t have to sit through any of Lee Bright’s nonsense before being treated to the payoff. I’m so proud of my state today, and I’m not […]
TweetLee Bright’s bizarre view of history, and Prof. David Carlton’s related comment about South Carolina secessionists’ attempt to justify their action, remind me that it might be useful to place at your convenient disposal the original document itself. We’ve all heard the absurd lie, from Confederate apologists, that the Civil War was not about slavery. […]
TweetY’all can get this from various other sources, but it took me a few minutes, so for your convenience, here’s who voted “aye” in the S.C. House on moving toward taking the flag down: And here are those who voted “nay,” those who were absent, and those who just did not vote: The Senate pass […]
TweetSome time ago — and it’s frustrating me that I can’t put my hands on it at the moment — Brad Hutto gave a speech somewhere in the Upstate in which he announced that Democrats were in the driver’s seat in the SC Senate. That startled some who heard it, but there’s a certain truth […]