She’s getting lots of publicity, but Nancy Mace’s background could cause her problems in a four-way Republican primary fight against Graham, businessman Richard Case and State Sen. Lee Bright.
Yesterday we reported on Nike’s inability to identify which Carolina is which. Update: geography is still hard and the corporate giant has been forced to recall a questionable t-shirt for the second time this year.
Nike’s Carolina Panthers t-shirt bearing a silhouette of South Carolina (instead of North Carolina) is just one of the reasons they are ‘Just Doing It’ wrong.
Simply precious.
‘Insane’ hassles from tax agency delayed group’s application nearly three years, says Lauren County (S.C.) Tea Party founder Diane Belsom: ‘People need to be sent to jail if they’ve broken laws.’
Following Mark Sanford’s comfortable 9-point victory over Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the New York Times reports: Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor once so tarnished by a spectacular lie about a love affair that few expected him to recover, is now heading to Congress. Mr. Sanford beat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a Democrat with no previous political experience, The Associated Press said about 90 minutes after polls closed. Mrs. Colbert Busch had […]
Democratic congressional candidate Elizabeth Colbert-Busch‘s name will appear twice on the ballot for today’s election in South Carolina’s first district. She has been nominated by both the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party. “She’s been nominated by both parties,” explains Chris Whitmire, a public information director at the South Carolina State Election Commission.”There’s no prohibition in South Carolina against that.” Regardless of which Colbert-Busch button a voter clicks, all […]
Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford took an enormous amount of heat in 2009 for an affair with his Argentine mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, to whom he is currently engaged. The politician famously told his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail after inexplicably disappearing for several days; it was later revealed that he was actually in Buenos Aires visiting Chapur. He and his wife Jenny subsequently filed for divorce. But […]
As the special election in South Carolina’s 1st District looms, the once-lopsided race seems to have tightened considerably. Just two weeks ago, a poll had Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert-Busch leading former Republican governor Mark Sanford by a comfortable 9-point margin. Now, with two days left in the campaign, the congressional contenders appear to be in a dead heat. Sanford’s surge has taken many by surprise given his penchant for personal […]
Mark Sanford debating a cardboard cut-out of Nancy Pelosi.
