Tweet State Sen. Vincent Sheheen came by to explain his government restructuring plan, which he wrote about recently in this op-ed piece. The significance of Vincent’s initiative (and I call him “Vincent” on account of knowing his daddy and his uncle before I knew him) is that it constitutes a credible, worthwhile government restructuring […]
Tweet I was looking for a picture of Vincent Sheheen to go with the last post, and ran across this video clip that I had forgotten. It’s from the meeting on January 29, 2008, when he unveiled his restructuring plan to Cindi Scoppe and me, in the editorial board room at The State. It’s short […]
TweetOne of the obstacles I had to overcome to get the Power Failure project done back in 1991 was persuading my managing editor and executive editor that the problems I proposed to write about were indeed particular to South Carolina. They would ask, "Is it really different from the way other states do things?" and […]
TweetPretty much everyone who follows such things has said Nikki Haley’s first big test would be choosing her Commerce Secretary. And now we see how she has chosen. And it is very… interesting. For the last couple of hours, since I heard that she had picked Bobby Hitt, I’ve been thinking back over my long […]
Tweet… if you live in Anton Gunn’s district, where Democrats are picking a nominee to go up against Sheri Few in light of Anton’s sudden decision to take a job with the federal gummint. I got this today from Boyd Summers and the Richland County Democrats: Let’s get ready!!! A major decision will be made […]
TweetHere’s an interesting (if unsavory) thing to contemplate… First, it’s pretty much a given that Nikki Haley will win the GOP nomination — maybe even without a runoff. So what happens after that? Well, one’s first instinct as a longtime observer of politics is to think, The allegations against her character aren’t going away. And […]
TweetGiven the Hospital Association PAC’s decision to donate to Vincent Sheheen, and the fact that our state’s lawyer is threatening to sue the federal gummint over health care reform, and seeing as how I just quoted SC Hospital Association President and CEO Thornton Kirby about the Sheheen thing, it occurred to me that y’all might […]
TweetAn earlier post about Mark Sanford evolved (or devolved, if you prefer) into a thread about the Confederate flag, and a couple of points I made back there in response to some of your comments are probably worthy of their own post. So here goes… First, Doug Ross had said: … And most South Carolinians […]