(cross-posted at politicalnetroots.com) A few weeks ago, SC House member said to me: “You know what really gets to me Wesley? We cut taxes by $850 Million in the past four years and nobody cares. Voters demanded property tax cuts and we slashed them by half a billion. They didn’t care. We cut income taxes [...]
(cross-posted at www.politicalnetroots.com) As I write his post I sit in a hammock in Tulum, Mexico. I didn’t come here because I read about it in a magazine or saw an ad on TV. I didn’t even find it in a Google search for “awesome vacations on the beach.” I came here because my buddy [...]
Elizabeth and I just ravaged our attic looking for an old license plate I used to showcase on the front of my first car…a 1986 Buick Summerset. Back in high school I had a real identity crisis. I was a huge Star Trek / Star Wars sci-fi nerd, but I also thought I was a [...]
Richard Eckstrom is helping lead the way in to make South Carolina the most transparent state in the nation? And Wesley Donehue doesn’t know the difference between the Comptroller General and the Treasurer. Oh, and he’s also too lazy to reshoot this video. (UPDATE) Curtis Loftis just sent me this note – “FYI…The Comptroller General [...]
I’ve talked to a couple of my SCGOP Executive Committee buddies this morning who were on a conference call with Chairman Katon Dawson last night and they’ve given me a couple inside scoops. First, Katon has asked the Executive Committee to start phone banking every RNC delegate they know. He specifically targeted those who attended [...]
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In my previous post I wrote that accountability + transparency = TRUST. Here in South Carolina, many political activities occur behind closed doors without transparency and accountability. Lax campaign and ethics rules create a hard burden on campaigns and leave many organizations operating in darkness. These are eight simple examples of how South Carolina’s legislators [...]
I don’t agree with his politics, but his tactics continue to astonish everyone. Barack Obama is truly changing the way politics is done. Now its time for us Republicans to come together and catch up. From the UK Telegraph: Barack Obama launches weekly YouTube broadcasts Barack Obama, President-Elect of the United States, has introduced his [...]
Unemployment, high taxes, and wasteful spending are big problems. However, the primary issues that must first be addressed are accountability and transparency. The most serious problems cannot be solved until voters trust you to solve them. Trust can only be gained through accountability and transparency, thus they must be addressed before all others. Is there [...]
