Tag Archives: South Carolina

Feds Indict SC Nurse For Making Fake Vax Cards

South Carolina’s The State reports: A top nurse at a Columbia skilled nursing and rehabilitation center has been indicted on federal charges of creating false COVID-19 vaccination cards. Tammy McDonald, 53, a registered nurse and director of nursing at the rehabilitation center, also lied to agents with the FBI and U.S. Health and Human Services Department when confronted about the …

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SC Gov Joins GOP Attacks On LGBT-Themed Books

NPR reports: In the latest call from Republican leaders to ban certain books in schools, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is telling his state’s department of education to investigate a graphic novel on queer identity being available at a school’s library. He says the content in the book is “sexually explicit” and “pornographic.” The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by …

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GOP Crowd Heckles Lindsey Graham For Pushing Vax

Mediaite reports: South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham experienced firsthand the ignorant hell that Covid-19 misinformation has wrought when he was heckled by Republican voters for very gently and apologetically recommending they get vaccinated. Just the mere suggestion that people think about getting — think about it — earned immediate jeers from the crowd, and an apologetic clarification from Graham, …

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Armed SC Woman Assaults Cop In Face Mask Dispute

Charleston’s CBS News affiliate reports: Officials with the Charleston Police Department say a loaded gun was found on a 56-year-old woman who went to the SC Aquarium and attacked a police detective after she refused to wear a mask. Lisa Bostick was charged with simple assault, disorderly conduct, and unlawful carrying of a weapon. She was given a $26,319 bond. …

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South Carolina Parent Reveals CDC Plot To Shut Down Schools And Turn Them Into “Concentration Camps”

Greenville, South Carolina’s NBC News affiliate reports: Some parents in Greenville County are frustrated and say they want masks mandated. Others say they’re glad it’s an option. The Greenville County School board voted unanimously at a meeting Tuesday to pass a motion allocating 5.5 million dollars in federal funding. The district will allocate $3.3 million for 80 hours of COVID-19-related …

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Anti-Vax SC Tea Party Leader Dies Of Something

The Columbia State reports: Pressley Stutts, the GOP leader who helped reshape the Greenville County Republican Party leadership, died Thursday of complications from COVID-19. He had been hospitalized since late July and admitted to the ICU on Aug. 3. He had been on a ventilator at Spartanburg Regional Hospital, suffering from pneumonia, renal failure and blood clots. Stutts was a …

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Anti-Vax Tea Party Leader On Ventilator For Something

FITS News reports: Pressley Stutts – leader of the Greenville Tea Party and a recently elected South Carolina Republican Party (SCGOP) executive committeeman – was hospitalized late last month with Covid-19 and attendant illnesses and has been battling them ever since. Stutts has taken a turn for the worse over the last few days – news which took many of …

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South Carolina County Republican Party Votes To Censure Lindsey Graham Over His Infrastructure Vote

The Aiken Standard reports: The Aiken County Republican Party has overwhelmingly voted to censure U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, citing his support of the behemoth infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate. The local party this week accused the powerful South Carolina Republican of playing both sides of the political aisle to his advantage, consciously violating Republican principles, backing bills “that …

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SC GOP In Civil War Over “Lepers” Comment By Chair

South Carolina’s FITS News reports: Right-wing Republicans in Horry county, South Carolina are mulling a “censorship” resolution against the chairman of the state party after he called a group of grassroots conservative activists “lepers” last week – the latest front in an increasingly caustic civil war within the party. I am guessing these Horry officials meant to say they will …

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SC Couple Charged In Capitol Riot: “This Is War”

South Carolina’s The State reports: Two more alleged South Carolina rioters in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have been arrested by the FBI, bringing the total number of people with S.C. ties arrested to seven. John Getsinger Jr. and Stacie Hargis-Getsinger, of Hanahan, a city in Berkeley County just north of Charleston, were arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Charleston before U.S. …

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Kraken Lawyer Loses Bid For SC GOP Party Chair

Politico reports: Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s bid to bring “chaos” to South Carolina’s GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party’s chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of voter fraud and a host of other slurs. Chairman Drew McKissick’s reelection was not in doubt among knowledgeable Republicans who say the party delegate rules favor longtime insiders. …

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SC Gas Hoarder Flees Police, Crashes, Car Explodes

Columbia, South Carolina’s NBC News affiliate reports: A woman hoarding gas caught on fire following a car accident Thursday night in Pickens County, according to Chief Deputy Chad Brooks. A deputy in a marked patrol unit, saw a Pontiac G6 traveling on Jameson Road in Pickens and determined that the vehicle was displaying a South Carolina license plate that had …

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SC Closes State Offices For “Confederate Memorial Day”

Fox News reports: South Carolina will close state government offices Monday to mark Confederate Memorial Day. Some local government offices will also close in observation of the holiday, held every year on May 10. South Carolina is among a handful of states in the South with such an official holiday. South Carolina chose May 10 because it is the day …

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South Carolina To Legalize Executions By Firing Squad

ABC News reports: The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation. The bill, approved by a 66-43 vote, will require condemned inmates to choose …

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Politico: GOP Panicked Over Lin Wood’s SC Campaign

Politico reports: Lin Wood played a starring role in Georgia’s GOP civil war after the 2020 elections. Now the pro-Trump lawyer is taking his roadshow to South Carolina, where he’s campaigning as a “chaos” candidate to lead the state Republican Party. The outcome has out-sized implications because of South Carolina’s role in GOP presidential primaries — the state hosts the …

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Tim Scott’s Rebuttal: Democrats Are “Pulling Us Apart”

The Guardian reports: It is Donald Trump, not Democrats, who deserves credit for wresting the coronavirus pandemic under control, Tim Scott argued on Wednesday night as the Republican senator gave his party’s official response to Joe Biden’s first address to Congress. As the only Black Republican in the US Senate, Scott had been expected to address the issue of racial …

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Kraken Lawyer Brings Chaos To SC GOP Meeting

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: Chaos erupted at the Charleston County GOP meeting when attorney Lin Wood pushed conspiracy theories that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It was part of Wood’s pitch to replace S.C. Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick next month. Every time Wood talked about how Trump was actually president, many in the room erupted in …

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South Carolina May Teach Trump Version Of US History

Charleston’s CBS News affiliate reports: South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would require “instruction in United States foundational history” for all public middle and high school students in a way that is consistent with former President Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission Report, and it already has approval from the state’s top education leader. The Restore America’s Foundation Act, S.534, …

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Lin Wood To Run For Chair Of South Carolina GOP

The Hill reports: Lin Wood, the defamation and personal injury lawyer who took up former President Trump’s baseless accusations of election fraud, will run to lead the South Carolina Republican Party less than a month after moving to the Palmetto State from his home base in Georgia. In an email late Sunday, Wood confirmed that he would seek to oust …

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AP: How Some States Botched The Vaccine Rollout

The Associated Press reports: A surprising new analysis found that states such as South Carolina and Florida that raced ahead of others to offer the vaccine to ever-larger groups of people have vaccinated smaller shares of their population than those that moved more slowly and methodically, such as Hawaii and Connecticut. The explanation, as experts see it, is that the …

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