Tweet OK, so it’s not exciting video, but I thought I’d help the Chamber keep this issue before you, because the need to deal with it remains. As a release from that worthy body notes: Last week, York County said “yes” to another seven years of Pennies for Progress, the county’s 1-cent sales tax roads […]
TweetI saw Rusty DePass yesterday, and he stopped me to tell me that while my Health and Happiness routine at Rotary on Monday didn’t get what I would call big laughs, he thought it was hilarious. I appreciated that. I don’t know what was wrong Monday. I mean, I got some laughs, but it was […]
Tweet This devil’s bargain that the GOP has made with the Tea Party since the GOP’s traumatic loss in 2008 — which seems to have driven the party half-mad with grief, and into the arms of the snake-flag crowd — just looks worse and worse. And not just from the perspective of UnPartisans like me. […]
TweetI have been SO busy today that I haven’t had a chance to properly excoriate the horrendous idea put forward yesterday, but here’s what I said about it this morning on Twitter: This recall proposal is the worst idea SC Dems have come up with in many a day, so of course Nikki Haley is […]
Tweet Forward Slash Podcast: Warthen Episode from Wesley Donehue on Vimeo. Forward Slash Podcast: Warthen Episode from Wesley Donehue on Vimeo. A couple of weeks ago — just before he went on a European vacation — Wesley Donehue asked me to be his first guest on a new web show he was starting. (I had […]
Tweet I wasn’t there when S.C. House Majority Leader Kenny Bingham tore into Nikki Haley on June 29, claiming her office misled lawmakers on the budget. But I had heard it was really something. After all, it got Kenny a standing ovation, which sort of tells you where our governor stands in the estimation of […]
TweetBefore we leave this subject entirely… The governor’s memoir is one thing. We don’t expect much from it, and we probably won’t be disappointed. But there was a time when I expected something from the nation’s leading newspapers. I still do, from some. But it looks like The New York Times has fallen down on the […]
TweetSome of y’all, being a hard-to-please bunch, were apparently less than impressed by the planned title of our governor’s long awaited memoir, “Can’t is Not An Option.” As Tim said: “Can’t is Not An Option”. I guess her editor and publisher don’t not believe in double negatives. Essentially the title means “Can is an Option.” […]
TweetA couple of weeks ago, in response to some outrageous statement about the state budget put out by someone over at the Policy Council via Twitter — I forget now who it was, or what it was he or she said, but I think it was something like “this is the biggest budget ever” — […]
TweetI’m going to be on Pub Politics tonight (my sixth time!), and one of several topics the guys want to talk about is Nikki Haley’s book deal — which is a bit of trivia I had missed (I knew she was writing a memoir, but nothing about a “deal”), so I had to go look […]
TweetGood thing that Adam Beam is really into Twitter, too. Because I have relied upon John O’Connor to keep me up on what’s happening at the State House. And today, he’s Tweeting about lawmakers rapidly working their way through Nikki Haley’s vetoes. Eventually, he put it all together on thestate.com. (That is, he put together […]
Tweet Welcome to another guerrilla edition (as in, shot by me out in the field rather than the studio) of “The Brad Show.” Our guest today: Chad Connelly, the new chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. I spoke with Chad over at the party HQ this morning. Since this was my first sit-down with […]
Tweet Lots of interesting stuff in the WSJ the last couple of days, as noted back here and here. Today, I was struck by this piece about 22,000 immigrants who have been deeply disappointed by finding out that they did NOT win the annual green card lottery — even the though the U.S. gummint had […]
Tweet Having noted that Dick Harpootlian had singled him out for abuse, I thought I’d check out one of Jon Huntsman’s appearances in Columbia today. (Here’s what he said at an earlier appearance.) I thought, “I hear the Republicans have this nice new building, and that would be better than going to a barbecue.” I […]
TweetDid you see this in The State today? Legislators give Haley ‘B-‘ grade for first session You’re kidding me, right? You want me to believe that the honest assessment of “legislators” is that Nikki Haley’s performance as governor is worthy of a B-minus? There’s just no way. Yeah, I realize people who don’t know the […]
TweetA couple of days back, in the midst of an argument about something else, I started griping about a piece I’d read somewhere by a feminist of the “men and women are just alike and don’t you dare say otherwise” variety (there are all sorts of feminism, and that is but one type), suggesting that […]
TweetSeveral weeks back, Corey Hutchins of The Free Times called to say he was working on a profile of Nikki Haley for The Nation magazine. He wanted to talk with me about it, and asked if I’d meet him for a beer at Yesterday’s. He didn’t have to twist my arm. (Note the ad — […]
TweetI was WAY busy last night with real-life stuff until about 1:30 a.m. (just wait until YOU have five kids and four grandchildren and everybody’s coming and going and having to be picked up at the airport in the middle of the night), and barely found time to watch some of that presidential debate. I […]
Tweet Dick Harpootlian put out this video today with regard to the dispute between Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Glenn McConnell chronicled back here… Here’s what the Democratic Party chair had to say about his video: “It’s time to send adults to the Statehouse and get rid of the whiny children. Instead of the Governor […]
TweetHaving a busy workday today, and don’t really have time a lot of time to dwell on the SC Supreme Court’s sensible decision in stopping Nikki Haley from violating the separation of powers. The salient part: Chief Justice Jean Toal and justices Donald Beatty and Kaye Hearn voted to block Haley’s order to call lawmakers […]