PI is working to confirm reports of chatter circulating around Columbia that State Representative Justin Bamberg may be creating an exploratory committee this August to gauge his options for a potential gubernatorial run in 2018. According to our sources, Bamberg has become increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress and action by…
The (incredibly handsome) Democrat and Charleston lawyer, Joe Cunningham, announced his candidacy for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District yesterday. Cunningham will challenge incumbent Republican, Mark Sanford. Cunningham’s website is already live and features the video below. The video serves as a solid introduction to the candidate, though it’s a bit too long we’re…
Though Democrats didn’t walk away with a win in Tuesday’s 5th district congressional race they came extremely close, and that’ something to talk about. According to the South Carolina Election Commission final results have the Republican candidate and former South Carolina House Representative, Ralph Norman, securing a narrow victory with…
Yesterday, Democrat Wendy Brawley easily secured a victory in the special election for the South Carolina House of Representatives District 70. The special election was triggered by the passing of long time Representative and progressive icon, Joe Neal. Brawley defeated her Republican opponent, Bill Strickland, with 78 percent of…
After reading the FitsNews post “Mandy Powers Norrell for Governor” – yes we read Fits and so do 99% of Columbia insiders -we thought about the cases that could be made for a number of South Carolina’s top Democrats to run for Governor in 2018. Although South Carolina has been written off…