There are four democrats in the election to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of State Representative Harold Mitchell. Mitchell began serving in the house in 2005 and represented House District 31 which encompasses Spartanburg County. He retired from the House at the end of this year’s legislative session,…
A Conversation with SCLBC Chair John King
Since his election to the South Carolina House of Representative in 2008 Rep. John Richard C. King, current Chair of the SC Legislative Black Caucus, has never been one to backdown from any challenge or any person. He is unapologetic about stating his case on what he considers the, “right…
Oh, yeah…we forgot about this one from House Budget Week 2017
With the buzz associated with our recent post, Bamberg Set to “Explore” for 2018 Gubernatorial Run?, it reminded us of a post that we meant to publish during the 2017 House Floor Budget debate. We haven’t endorsed any candidate yet, but Bamberg has been an extremely active legislator during his short time in the…
PI’s Most Influential Women in the Statehouse
We like our list here at PI, so we thought it would be fun to share our ranking of the “Most Influential Women in the Statehouse” (on both sides of the aisle) .We do believe all legislators are important, and applaud all women and men that make the difficult decision…
Was Trump’s Tweet a Response to Bakari Sellers?
This weekend our Tweeter in Chief aka POTUS took to his favorite social media platform to unleash his disdain for CNN, which he now refers to as #FNN or #FraudNewsNetwork. Though President Trump is certainly no newbie to using his 140 characters to trash talk main stream media this tweet…