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The CPAC Presidential Straw Poll

By | 02.16.10 | 6:34 pm

Matt Lewis has the latest edition of the presidential straw poll to be distributed later this week to paying attendees of the annual CPAC conference. In presidential years, candidates often buy tickets for supporters in order to help them win these polls. Not coincidentally, the 2007, 2008, More…

Remember the Neediest

By | 12.25.09 | 6:00 am

Dodd Sanford Ensign

During the holiday season, we are reminded to remember the less fortunate among us. In that spirit of empathy, TWI has compiled a list of the ten least successful politicians of 2009 — those most in need of our thoughts.

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In South Carolina, Sanford Extends Unemployment Benefits

By | 10.29.09 | 1:23 pm

How bad is the country’s long-term unemployment problem? Well, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) — who made headlines this year for (among other things) initially refusing federal stimulus money — signed legislation today extending jobless benefits under the stimulus bill.

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Welfare for Mark Sanford

By | 08.10.09 | 3:06 pm

The Associated Press releases a brutal report on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and his use of state resources. The most damaging items: $1,265 for a flight from Myrtle Beach to Columbia to make a haircut appointment, and $5,535 for trips from the capital to his family home.

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‘C Street’ Democrat: Don’t Ask Me, I Just Live There

By | 07.23.09 | 4:07 pm

The Michigan Messenger caught up today with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who lives at the “C Street” house made famous of late by several current and former residents, including Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) — all of whom More…

Fox News Reporter Groveled to Get Sanford Interview

By | 07.15.09 | 11:51 am

South Carolina’s The State newspaper’s expose of emails sent by journalists to Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-S.C.) office are essential reading. One of the worst offenders in the cache is Griff Jenkins, the color reporter for Fox News, who groveled to Sanford’s staff and attached the way other media were More…

Haley Barbour: Mum on 2012, Chatty on Cooking Frogs

By | 07.07.09 | 3:52 pm

With leading contenders for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination dropping like flies, an increasing amount of buzz has surrounded Haley Barbour, the cigar-chomping former Republican National Committee chairman and current governor of Mississippi. Speculation only crescendoed when Barbour visited Iowa and New Hampshire and More…

Censure: Good Enough for Sanford, Not Good Enough for Clinton

By | 07.07.09 | 9:03 am

By a 22-9 vote, the South Carolina Republican executive committee has voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). Only 10 members of the committee demanded his resignation. It’s reminiscent of what happened after the 1998 elections, when Republicans lost seats in the House of Representatives and temporarily considered More…

Tea Party Movement Loses Steam

By | 07.03.09 | 6:00 am

While South Carolina’s political establishment wrestles with the fate of Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Ron Parks has already moved on. He’s one of the organizers of a July 4 Tea Party in Charleston, a rally that will celebrate America and protest the way that President Barack Obama is governing it. More…

The Governor Who Wasn’t There

By | 07.02.09 | 10:59 am

The drip, drip, drip of possible scandal keeps falling on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.).

Gov. Mark Sanford left the Governor’s Mansion without a security escort, 38 times in 2008. In the first six months of this year, he left the mansion without security, 39 times.

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