While Washington liberals continue growing our nation’s debt with explosive spending, South Carolina’s Republican Senators are working hard to protect taxpayers, limit spending, and grow our economy. President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell developed a plan that creates a spending cap and a budget stabilization fund. The amount of money state legislators could spend each year would be limited to the average revenue growth of the previous ten years and any additional funds would be placed in a … [Read more...]
Democrats Blocking Bill Protecting Rights of South Carolina Workers
Republicans Working To Guarantee Right To Secret Ballot Elections South Carolina’s Republican Senators are pushing a bill on the State Senate floor that guarantees a worker’s right to a secret ballot election in the workplace, but liberal Democrats are continuing to block that right. H.3305, introduced by Rep. Eric Bedingfield, is a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a worker’s right to voting by secret ballot during union organization. The legislation is a reaction to the … [Read more...]
Push is on for hike in cigarette tax
Supporters hope this is the year lawmakers will OK increase Tate Mikell, a young Charleston police officer, had just finished a long run on the beach with his dog in 2005 and was sitting down to lunch with his mom and dad when the symptoms set in. The Citadel graduate felt dazed as a massive headache clouded his mind. It was a brain aneurysm, and it would leave him paralyzed on his left side and permanently wheelchair-bound. Today, Mikell, 31, hopes lawmakers will get serious about passing an … [Read more...]





