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Mystery $1.8B task force advised by firm with Trump ties
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
The task force created by Gov. Henry McMaster to investigate an unclaimed $1.8 billion is getting advice from an international law firm that specializes in defending clients facing possible or actual federal investigations, records show.
The Atlanta-based King & Spalding firm also has ties to former President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, according to media reports and court records.
At the June 4 meeting of the “working group,” which McMaster created on April 11, King & Spalding attorneys “provided legal advice” to the group, which included representatives from the governor’s and attorney general’s offices; S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis, state Comptroller General Brian Gaines, state Auditor George Kennedy and S.C. Department of Administration Executive Director Marcia Adams, as well as staff members from those agencies, according to written meeting notes.
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SC's Conservative Movement Wins!
- By SC Freedom Caucus
Freedom Caucus Defends All Incumbent Seats
This past Tuesday, South Carolina held our Republican primary. As we have previously documented, House GOP leadership in conjunction with special interest groups have been targeting South Carolina Freedom Caucus members since early 2022. RINO leadership recruited 11 candidates to challenge conservative Freedom Caucus legislators and dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars of dark money into these races to spread blatant lies and misrepresentations. Some estimates are putting the total spent by the establishment to unseat conservatives at as much as $3 million.
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Governor's Secret Task Force Still Mum on Mystery $1.8B
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
A task force created by Gov. Henry McMaster to investigate a mysterious $1.8 billion that reportedly is in a state account has met secretly at least six times in less than two months but hasn’t yet publicly released any specific findings.
As The Nerve revealed last month, the “working group” that met behind closed doors three times in April included the following agency heads who attended most or all of the meetings either in person or virtually: S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis, state Comptroller General Brian Gaines, state Auditor George Kennedy and S.C. Department of Administration Executive Director Marcia Adams, according to meeting notes released by the Department of Administration under the state’s open-records law.
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The Multibillion-Dollar State Surplus that Keeps Growing
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Editor’s note: This is the first investigative story in a two-part package on massive state financial accounts. The other story can be found here.
S.C. lawmakers don’t talk much publicly about this part of the state’s coffers, though it’s a huge chunk of money.
Known as “other” funds, the revenues include such things as college tuition, lottery proceeds, state gasoline taxes, part of the state sales tax earmarked for K-12 education, and court fees and fines. Many state agencies don’t spend all of their available other funds in a fiscal year, with some of them ending the year with relatively large surpluses.
As of a month ago, the state had a total of more than $9 billion in other fund reserves, The Nerve found in a review of S.C. Department of Administration records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Act.
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SCFC Issues Policy Memo on "Health Czar"
- By The SC Freedom Caucus
Conservative legislators clarify our objections and offer potential solutions
At the end of this legislative session, Representative Josiah Magnuson (Spartanburg) used a procedural motion to kill S.915 or the “Health Czar” bill. Since then, the Governor and several members of leadership have expressed interest in resurrecting the bill despite overwhelming grassroots opposition and clear concerns expressed by conservatives.
We felt it was important to communicate once again what our objections are to the bill, and what are some potential solutions that could make the bill better.
Subject: S.915 - SCFC concerns with the policy, and proposed solutions
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SCPC, SCPIF Dispute Commerce's Spin on Scout Ethics Complaint
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
The following is a joint statement issued by the South Carolina Policy Council and South Carolina Public Interest Foundation in response to a recent opinion column submitted by S.C. Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey to at least two news outlets in the state:
The South Carolina Policy Council and South Carolina Public Interest Foundation last month jointly submitted a formal complaint to the S.C. State Ethics Commission regarding Scout Motors’ electric-vehicle assembly plant under construction in Richland County. The commission’s executive director in an April 26, 2024, letter notified the two organizations that the complaint “contained facts sufficient to warrant an investigation.”
The Policy Council and The Nerve – the investigative news arm of the Policy Council – each published the complaint on their respective websites on April 29, 2024.
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SC Freedom Caucus Defeats Health Czar!
- By SC Freedom Caucus
Major Wins on Final Day of Session
Earlier this year, the Uniparty establishment made multiple attempts to force through a “Health Czar” Bill under the guise of restructuring and consolidating public health departments in SC. Today, the SC Freedom Caucus defeated the effort!
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You may remember a few months ago we wrote:
“Rather than standing up to the WHO, banning vaccine mandates, or ensuring that the legislature will have a voice to stop lockdowns and runaway ‘health emergencies,’ the General Assembly is focused on passing legislation recommended by the Boston Consulting Group, a partner of the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
Our SC Freedom Caucus had numerous objections to this unprecedented bill including the unknown cost to taxpayers, dangerous powers placed in the hands of a sole unelected bureaucrat, and failure to actually “consolidate” or cut any government whatsoever.
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Bombshell Story: House GOP Caucus Senior Advisor Helps Dark Money Attack Conservatives!
- By SC Freedom Caucus
Saturday afternoon while many of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus members were door knocking and connecting with constituents on issues that matter to them, a bombshell story broke concerning the inaccurately named, special interest-funded, dark money group, “Palmetto Truth Project.”
As you probably remember, Palmetto Truth Project was established in March of last year after South Carolina Freedom Caucus members pushed the woke Left and RINO establishment to their breaking point through conservative amendments and exposure of the RINOs’ own voting records. The establishment was especially incensed that we targeted DEI funding and wasteful pork in the 2023 budget. Days later, PTP began a relentless attack on all SCFC members because we were standing up and fighting for conservative values - and winning!
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17 State AGs Refuse to Allow Biden to Insert Abortion into Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
- By Dan Hart - The Washington Stand
As the Biden campaign continues to push abortion as its primary focus ahead of the November elections, the administration made yet another move to ensure that abortion remains front and center by moving to insert the issue into the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act earlier this month — a move that earned a strong rebuke and lawsuit from a group of 17 Republican state attorneys general.
In mid-April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it was controversially adding abortion into its draft rules for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, allowing workers to “ask for time off to obtain an abortion and recover from the procedure.” But critics say the legislation was never intended to address abortion and was merely meant to give pregnant women commonsense accommodations in the workplace, including time off for medical appointments, options to sit down and stand up while working, exemptions from heavy lifting, time off for postpartum recovery, bathroom, breastfeeding, food, and water breaks, considerations for morning sickness, and more.
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SC Policy Council, SC Public Interest Foundation file ethics complaint against Scout Motors
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
The South Carolina Policy Council – the parent organization of The Nerve – and the South Carolina Public Interest Foundation have jointly filed a state ethics complaint against Scout Motors related to the $1.29 billion state appropriation last year for the company’s electric-vehicle assembly plant under construction near Columbia, according to a press release issued today.
The written complaint, which was submitted to the State Ethics Commission and included with the press release, asks the commission to investigate whether Virginia-based Scout Motors Inc., a company created in 2022 by German-based Volkswagen, violated state ethics law by failing to register as a lobbyist principal before the S.C. Legislature and Gov. Henry McMaster approved the appropriation, known as Act 3 of 2023.
The complaint cites findings in Nerve stories last year and this year about meetings or events involving Scout Motors officials or their representatives and McMaster, his staff or lawmakers before the appropriation was approved; and an earlier incentives proposal by the state of Mississippi.
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Energy Mega-Bill: Government Moves to Control, Taxpayers Pay the Price
- By Average Steve - Palmetto State Watch
At first glance, I must admit, the Energy Policy Institute (EPI) looks pretty good on paper. As do many other government entities, what at the outset seem to be reasonable & cost efficient, is anything but. EPI is a proposed new bureaucracy with 3 members appointed by the general assembly for a 4 year term at a salary of $100k per year. The members are vested with the power to regulate the rates and services of every public utility. They are tasked to “fix just & reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices & measurements of service to be furnished, imposed or observed and followed” by every public utility in SC. Even though this commission is governed by a 6-member board of elected officials, the power held by 3 bureaucrats for that length of time encompassing “every” public utility can be incredibly dangerous. The bill H5118 that creates the EPI, should be drastically scaled back or “killed” outright.
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South Carolina Congressional Conservatives Block Liberal Judge
- By SC Freedom Caucus
Former Democrat gubernatorial candidate James Smith rejected as judge
Today, conservatives had another major win at the State House.
The General Assembly held elections for our state’s judges. As we have discussed before, our current judicial election system is inherently flawed by allowing trial-lawyer legislators to choose the judges in front of whom they try their cases.
Over the years numerous liberals have been elected to the bench despite Republican control of both chambers. In fact just a few years ago Justice Kay Hearn, a proven liberal, was re-elected to a 10 year term (despite the fact she could only serve 1 year due to age limitations) against our objections. She then served as the deciding vote and wrote the majority opinion striking down the Heartbeat Bill in SC.
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Capped out: State Law Hurts Qualified Judicial Candidates' Election Chances
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Update: 4/17/24 – A day after this story was published, S.C. lawmakers rejected a bid by James Smith, a former state House member and Democratic nominee for governor, to become a 5th Circuit Court judge, voting 94-57 to restart the screening process for the seat.
Since 2016, Ralph King “Tripp” Anderson unsuccessfully has tried three times to get a seat on the S.C. Supreme Court – the state’s top court.
Each time, the legislatively controlled Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC) found Anderson, the state Administrative Law Court's chief judge, qualified and nominated him twice for election by the S.C. Legislature, though the commission later rescinded his second nomination, records show. In Anderson’s third try last year for a Supreme Court seat, he was the only one of four qualified candidates who wasn’t nominated.
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SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis's Response to Senate Committee Report this Past Tuesday
- By Curtis Loftis - SC Treasurer
Regarding Tuesday’s Senate subcommittee report, let me remind you that Senator Larry Grooms and his subcommittee members act with complete Senatorial immunity. They can say and do anything they like, and there are no consequences. There are no penalties for Senators, and no court action is available to me.
Unfortunately, a handful of State Senators are more interested in character assassination than solving problems that affect our State. Fortunately, most state leaders realize that problems are usually best solved at a conference table, not by grandstanding in front of TV cameras.
It should be obvious to everyone that the subcommittee would like to overturn the election of an executive branch official and install a puppet to control the funds of the state. Last night, the Treasurer’s Office invested $50.8 billion dollars, and wealthy special interest wants the power, income, and other “dividends” that come with control of the people’s money. The taxpayers of South Carolina should be very, very concerned.
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Judicial Reform for SC within Sight!
- By Josiah Magnuson - SC House Representative for District 38
We are within sight of judicial reform in SC! After years of effort with no bills on this topic ever allowed a hearing, the power of the good-ol-boy attorneys in the legislature is cracking. For the first time, a subcommittee hearing is being held in the House on Thursday morning at 9am.
The bill being addressed (S1046) has come over from the Senate where Sen. Wes Climer took a courageous stand to say he would filibuster the judicial elections until a judicial reform bill was brought to the floor! This is yet another example of how it is courage, not weakness, that gets things done in Columbia. Change almost never happens unless somebody draws a line in the sand and is willing to take the arrows for it. I'm so grateful to Sen. Climer for being that person on judicial reform this year.
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Florida Supreme Court Approves Pro-Life Law, But Sets the Stage for Abortion Showdown in November
- By Ben Johnson - The Washington Stand
After being thoroughly remade by a popular Republican governor, the Supreme Court in one of the nation’s largest states has upheld a protective pro-life law which allows an even stronger protection to take effect. But the court also authorized a ballot initiative that could erase nearly all pro-life laws in America’s third most populous state.
In a near-unanimous (6-1) ruling, the Florida Supreme Court approved a bill prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks gestation. The Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act “protects babies in the womb who have beating hearts, who can move, who can taste, who can see, and who can feel pain,” said Governor Ron DeSantis (R), who appointed five of the seven sitting justices, when he signed the bill in April 2022. The ruling also paves the way for a more protective pro-life law, which extends human rights to six weeks post-gestation, to take effect next month.
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