S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) is bashing fellow Republican U.S. Senate candidate Nancy Mace for her association with FITSNews, reporter Stephen Largen of The (Columbia, S.C.) Free Times is reporting. According to the Upstate lawmaker, Mace will find herself at a disadvantage in running for the Senate due to her former role with the controversial website (which you happen to be reading now).
Both Mace and Bright have announced their intentions to challenge incumbent “Republican in Name Only” Lindsey Graham in a GOP primary race for the U.S. Senate seat he has held since 2003. Social conservative Richard Cash, a businessman from Piedmont, S.C., is also running against Graham – while former State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel and former GOP lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Bill Connor have also expressed an interest in the seat.
In the battle to become South Carolina’s “anti-Graham,” Bright is coming out swinging – saying Mace will have difficulty winning the support of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and her followers due to her proximity to FITS, a leading critic of the “Republican” governor and her big-spending allies at the S.C. State House.
“There are a lot of folks that are loyal to the governor that will have a problem supporting her,” Bright told Largen, referring to Mace’s association with FITS.
Really? Last time we checked Haley wasn’t especially enthralled with Bright, either.
Mace wasn’t taking the bait …
“It’s just ironic to be criticized by someone who’s part of the conservative movement,” she told Largen. “I’m not going to reply in kind.”
Mace’s association with FITS was also the subject of a story in last week’s editions of The (Charleston, S.C.) City Paper – another left-leaning weekly alternative publication. That report delved deeply into FITS founding editor Will Folks’ 2007 affair with Haley – which many believe was part of an elaborate plot to help get her elected.
“A one-time spokesman for former Gov. Mark Sanford, Folks claimed that in 2007 he made out with Haley in her SUV after a drinking session,” the paper noted. “He also claimed that their “physical relationship” continued throughout the spring of that year. Haley denied the allegations, although her campaign chief Tom Pearson indicated in exchanges with Folks and others that the allegations, at least in some form, were possibly true.”
Wait … possibly?
In addition to text messages and phone logs showing numerous late night calls between himself and the governor, Folks also signed a sworn affidavit attesting to the veracity of his claim (one which has since been submitted in at least one deposition).
Haley has refused to sign an affidavit, although she may soon get a chance to set the record straight. Not long ago, the governor was referenced as the “other woman” in a pending divorce trial in Richland County, S.C. And while we don’t expect her to be hauled into court (governors are usually exempted from that sort of thing) we do expect an effort to be made to depose her.
Additionally, Haley has also not only failed to sue over the allegations made against her – she’s refused an offer of free legal assistance from one of the most prestigious law firms in the state (an offer brokered by her own father-in-law).
Anyway, more than three years later there is still plenty of ill will emanating from the Haley camp toward FITS – and presumably toward Mace as well.
In 2013, Haley refused to support S.C. Sen. Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) in his bid for the U.S. Congress because it was rumored Mace was providing him with campaign assistance (she wound up staying out of that race).
“Will Folks is attacking my family,” Haley told Grooms during a meeting at the S.C. Governor’s Mansion in December. “Anyone with Will Folks is attacking my family.”
Haley is also accused of forcing U.S. Sen. Tim Scott to sever his professional association with Mace as one of the conditions of appointing him to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint last December. Scott did so, concluding his business relationship with Mace in January of this year.
According to our moles at the S.C. State House, Mace and Haley reportedly met face-to-face in the governor’s office at some point in the spring of 2013 in an effort to resolve their differences – although it is unclear what came of that meeting. In fact at this point neither Mace nor Haley has publicly confirmed such a meeting even took place.
It’s also unclear what sort of impact Haley’s involvement in the race would have …
Once a darling of the S.C. Tea Party movement, the governor has seen her standing amongst fiscal conservatives plummet precipitously – although her support for rampant government growth and crony capitalist economic development deals have made her wildly popular with establishment Republicans (i.e. the sort of GOP voters who support Graham).
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“Anyone with Will Folks is attacking my family.”
Does that include us commentators? Some clarification, please. — and “don’t start me to talking, I’ll tell everything I know” …………
“Anyone with Will Folks is attacking my family.”
Does that include us commentators? Some clarification, please. — and “don’t start me talkin’, I’ll tell everything I know” …..(Sonny Boy Williamson)
Mace, according to the Free Times, had an equity interest in this site because your broke ass couldn’t pay her. As a business owner, she profited from whatever bucks the site kicked off, and her “buy out.” Her claims that she was just “doing marketing” don’t wash away the stain of the Haley scandal AND COUNTLESS OTHER INDIGNITIES, such as the nudity (which is only now stopped . . . hmmm) and creppy foot fetish thing. She was also “doing clerical work” for the site just months ago, and now she’s supposed to be a US Senator? *chortle*
“Vote for me! I made a smutty site more popular and opened Will Folks’s mail!”
Also, please dispense with this “my allegations are true because she hasn’t sued me yet” nonsense. Suing for defamation is incredibly hard and risky for even the cleanest person. The suit could have lasted years, and could have likely ended where it began: he said, she said. It was smart for her to roll on, regardless.
Suing Folks would have also given him a lot more undeserved attention.
Cicero – good call. It’s non-sequiter to presume guilt from a non suit.
Mace & Folks – trash & trashier; or is that smut & smuttier
Wait, what the nudity stopped?
Mace, according to the Free Times, had an equity interest in this site because your broke ass couldn’t pay her. As a business owner, she profited from whatever bucks the site kicked off, and her “buy out.” Her claims that she was just “doing marketing” don’t wash away the stain of the Haley scandal AND COUNTLESS OTHER INDIGNITIES, such as the nudity (which is only now stopped . . . hmmm) and creppy foot fetish thing. She was also “doing clerical work” for the site just months ago, and now she’s supposed to be a US Senator? *chortle*
“Vote for me! I made a smutty site more popular and opened Will Folks’s mail!”
Also, please dispense with this “my allegations are true because she hasn’t sued me yet” nonsense. Suing for defamation is incredibly hard and risky for even the cleanest person. The suit could have lasted years, and could have likely ended where it began: he said, she said. It was smart for her to roll on, regardless.
Suing Folks would have also given him a lot more undeserved attention.
Cicero – good call. It’s non-sequiter to presume guilt from a non suit.
Mace & Folks – trash & trashier; or is that smut & smuttier
Wait, what the nudity stopped?
“It’s just ironic to be criticized by someone who’s part of the conservative movement,” she told Largen. “I’m not going to reply in kind.”
Ironic=Stupid
Translation: “I’m not going to be stupid.”
All these candidates should be punching the closeted punching bag…not each other.
Really though, I hate to say it…but Mace better improve from what I saw on that Cavuto interview if she’s even going to lose respectably.
“It’s just ironic to be criticized by someone who’s part of the conservative movement,” she told Largen. “I’m not going to reply in kind.”
Ironic=Stupid
Translation: “I’m not going to be stupid.”
All these candidates should be punching the closeted punching bag…not each other.
Really though, I hate to say it…but Mace better improve from what I saw on that Cavuto interview if she’s even going to lose respectably.
Bright’s actual comments:
“Ugg, ugg. Ugg ugg ugg ugg.”
Ya gotta admit, he’s got that Fred Flintstone thing goin’ on. I’m jes’ sayin’.
Talking Points For US Senator Mace(R-SC)
1) Non-editorial business consulting marketing webmaster relationship
2) Will Folks objectifies women on his website; I was not involved with editorial decisions.
3) You put (1) on your website if need be, under “biography”
4) Use social media very carefully…send out tweets against Graham.
5) Folks needs to write a disclaimer exonerating any involvement Mace allegedly is accused of for editorial content. Folks needs to apologize to women.
6) edit your wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
Bright’s actual comments:
“Ugg, ugg. Ugg ugg ugg ugg.”
Ya gotta admit, he’s got that Fred Flintstone thing goin’ on. I’m jes’ sayin’.
Talking Points For US Senator Mace(R-SC)
1) Non-editorial business consulting marketing webmaster relationship
2) Will Folks objectifies women on his website; I was not involved with editorial decisions.
3) You put (1) on your website if need be, under “biography”
4) Use social media very carefully…send out tweets against Graham.
5) Folks needs to write a disclaimer exonerating any involvement Mace allegedly is accused of for editorial content. Folks needs to apologize to women.
6) edit your wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
I’m not sure she knows what “ironic” even means. How is it “ironic” that her opponent attacked her? Has Nancy learned her vocab from Alanis Morissette?
Aw, you beat Me to it.
I’m not sure she knows what “ironic” even means. How is it “ironic” that her opponent attacked her? Has Nancy learned her vocab from Alanis Morissette?
Aw, you beat Me to it.
Nancy Mace – Jackson listed as registered agent for
Fitsnews,LLC on 6.4.12 according to Secretary of States Office
Nancy Mace – Jackson listed as registered agent for
Fitsnews,LLC on 6.4.12 according to Secretary of States Office
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. Isn’t this the guy that had all kinds of tax evasion (not that that is bad) and issues with creditors on his last campaign?
Maybe he should backtrack, apologize and just stick to the issues. Hell attack Gramnesty. You can’t go wrong with that.
Just go here
http://publicindex.sccourts.org/Spartanburg/PublicIndex/PISearch.aspx
And type in On Time Transportation and On Time Trucking as defendant and look and see how many judgments this deadbeat and his company have against them. And a big foreclosure. And a workers comp lien.
Or how Bright threw his constituients in NW Spartanburg County (who were traded off to that SC Senate clown from Greenvillle County later on) under the bus during the Holly Springs FD fiasco with Sheriff Chuckie Wright holding the hand towels for “Pontius Pilate” Lee Bright when he washed his hands of the whole sordid affair.
Yep, just what SC needs: another baby-faced chunky white guy as a US senator.
Save us Bob Inglis!!!!!
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. Isn’t this the guy that had all kinds of tax evasion (not that that is bad) and issues with creditors on his last campaign?
Maybe he should backtrack, apologize and just stick to the issues. Hell attack Gramnesty. You can’t go wrong with that.
Just go here
http://publicindex.sccourts.org/Spartanburg/PublicIndex/PISearch.aspx
And type in On Time Transportation and On Time Trucking as defendant and look and see how many judgments this deadbeat and his company have against them. And a big foreclosure. And a workers comp lien.
Or how Bright threw his constituients in NW Spartanburg County (who were traded off to that SC Senate clown from Greenvillle County later on) under the bus during the Holly Springs FD fiasco with Sheriff Chuckie Wright holding the hand towels for “Pontius Pilate” Lee Bright when he washed his hands of the whole sordid affair.
Yep, just what SC needs: another baby-faced chunky white guy as a US senator.
Save us Bob Inglis!!!!!
People please. You read all about Will’s affair with Haley in the book he published. Didn’t you?
People please. You read all about Will’s affair with Haley in the book he published. Didn’t you?
Lee < Bright's strategy is to take out Nancy Mace apparently. That is going to also take out Lindsey.
This is beginning to be a locked-downed farce. My expectations were met.
Lee < Bright's strategy is to take out Nancy Mace apparently. That is going to also take out Lindsey ?
This is beginning to be a locked-downed farce. My expectations were met.
Lee is making a HUGE mistake. But considering who is advising him, now, that’s not surprising. The quality of political advisement has really gone downhill since 2007, in this state. Lot of backbiting. Lot of attempted assassination. I have in the past and was gong to support Lee this time. Now, I’m not so sure.
Who is advising him?
Ask Wes Donehue.
you think? any thing to back that up? just curious.
You sound like one of the advisers screwing things up..
You mad, bro? In your first post you allude to know who his advisor(s) are. I was curious as to who that would be.
Pick up the phone! Give ’em a call! DO YOUR OWN DAMN RESEARCH, YOU LAZY LIBERAL!
Lee is making a HUGE mistake. But considering who is advising him, now, that’s not surprising. The quality of political advisement has really gone downhill since 2007, in this state. Lot of backbiting. Lot of attempted assassination. I have in the past and was going to support Lee this time. Now, I’m not so sure.
Who is advising him?
Ask Wes Donehue.
you think? any thing to back that up? just curious.
You sound like one of the advisers screwing things up.. I didn’t say Wes was advising him, dumb-butt, I said ASK him.
You mad, bro? In your first post you allude to know who his advisor(s) are. I was curious as to who that would be.
Pick up the phone! Give ’em a call! DO YOUR OWN DAMN RESEARCH, YOU LAZY LIBERAL!
Ya know…..this politico article has more “punch” than this fluff piece by Wil Folks. Better yet, we wonder if Wil Folks has the guts to get a camera out in front of Mr. Bright as he comes out of church on Sunday and ask him some ambush questions about prayer in Tarir Square…?? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/nancy-mace-lindsey-graham-challenger-tweet-95278.html?hp=r8_b1
Ya know…..the more fellow members here think, it would be better for Wil to get in front of Mr. Bright out in front of the BEACON Restaurant on a Friday Night after a high school football game…!! Ka-pow..!
Where was Mr. Bright on bashing Lindsey about the Benghazi attacks..??
Where was Mr Bright on bashing Lindsey about amnesty for “Syrian” oil smuggling informants…??
Mr. Bright is not so …..Bright..!
Ya know…..this politico article has more “punch” than this fluff piece by Wil Folks. Better yet, we wonder if Wil Folks has the guts to get a camera out in front of Mr. Bright as he comes out of church on Sunday and ask him some ambush questions about prayer in Tarir Square…?? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/nancy-mace-lindsey-graham-challenger-tweet-95278.html?hp=r8_b1
Ya know…..the more fellow members here think, it would be better for Wil to get in front of Mr. Bright out in front of the BEACON Restaurant on a Friday Night after a high school football game…!! Ka-pow..!
Where was Mr. Bright on bashing Lindsey about the Benghazi attacks..??
Where was Mr Bright on bashing Lindsey about amnesty for “Syrian” oil smuggling informants…??
Mr. Bright is not so …..Bright..!
Don’t think Nancy wants Haley’s support. Ask Mitt.
Don’t think Nancy wants Haley’s support. Ask Mitt.
When I was much younger I would listen to the likes of David Beasley and Jim Hodges and wonder how such people could ever get elected in this state.
Now I look at these idiots and shake my head. Jakie Knotts for Gubna by God! We need a crazy cracka in the mansion again.
Lawd, you said a mouth full.
When I was much younger I would listen to the likes of David Beasley and Jim Hodges and wonder how such people could ever get elected in this state.
Now I look at these idiots and shake my head. Jakie Knotts for Gubna by God! We need a crazy cracka in the mansion again.
Lawd, you said a mouth full.
If Haley endorses anyone for Senate, it will be Graham. She may wait for the runoff.
If Haley endorses anyone for Senate, it will be Graham. She may wait for the runoff.
Quite honestly, I don’t think any of these candidates have a shot at winning. I think it would take someone like one of the congressmen (Jeff? Mick?) to unify enough real conservatives AND be able to raise the serious jack it would take. If one of them jumped in, I think it would be even money.
Quite honestly, I don’t think any of these candidates have a shot at winning. I think it would take someone like one of the congressmen (Jeff? Mick?) to unify enough real conservatives AND be able to raise the serious jack it would take. If one of them jumped in, I think it would be even money.
Dear Catherine Ceips……(yes YOU )
Bet you did not know you would be back in the “news”…..did ya..? So, Mrs Ceips or is it Mrs Scarborough, we wonder who YOU would pick as Senator..? Better yet, we wonder if you understand the tactics being used by BRIGHT, MACE, ( & “Lin Bennett”) here in this political field of divide and conquer..?? We wonder who will get a nice “payoff” with a DC Lobby group that supports Graham and Clyburn..?
We also wonder if you have noticed what Mrs Mace is wearing..? What would you wear Catherine to tell Mr Graham something..? Maybe something “yellow”..?
Catherine, you may want to call Tom Davis and have him give a call to Mr. Graham’s barber on “M” street to have a nice chat. Ya know, Hillary wore “Green” to visit the brotherhood and then declared …”We Came, We Saw….and He DIED..” and we both know what effect that had in Benghazi, right..? We wonder what would happen if you declared “We Read, We Commented, and Graham got SHAVED..”?
Dear Catherine Ceips……(yes YOU )
Bet you did not know you would be back in the “news”…..did ya..? So, Mrs Ceips or is it Mrs Scarborough, we wonder who YOU would pick as Senator..? Better yet, we wonder if you understand the tactics being used by BRIGHT, MACE, ( & “Lin Bennett”) here in this political field of divide and conquer..?? We wonder who will get a nice “payoff” with a DC Lobby group that supports Graham and Clyburn..?
We also wonder if you have noticed what Mrs Mace is wearing..? What would you wear Catherine to tell Mr Graham something..? Maybe something “yellow”..?
Catherine, you may want to call Tom Davis and have him give a call to Mr. Graham’s barber on “M” street to have a nice chat. Ya know, Hillary wore “Green” to visit the brotherhood and then declared …”We Came, We Saw….and He DIED..” and we both know what effect that had in Benghazi, right..? We wonder what would happen if you declared “We Read, We Commented, and Graham got SHAVED..”?
Let’s put Nancy and Nancy in the boxing ring, I’ll take Mace, Lindsey can’t dance.
Let’s put Nancy and Nancy in the boxing ring, I’ll take Mace, Lindsey can’t dance.
That’s not the best picture of Nancy.
That’s not the best picture of Nancy.
“It’s just ironic to be criticized by someone who’s part of the conservative movement,” she told Largen.
I do not think that word, “ironic,” means what Mace and Alanis Morissette think it means.
“It’s just ironic to be criticized by someone who’s part of the conservative movement,” she told Largen.
I do not think that word, “ironic,” means what Mace and Alanis Morissette think it means.
Anxious to discover her web site so I can contribute.
Anxious to discover her web site so I can contribute.
I had no idea Governor Haley had slipped so far to the RINO side of things. Forgetting Mace for the moment, this is troubling to find out about as is Governor Haley’s apparent “tryst”–hardly becoming a supposedly true Conservative! I will have to reconsider my support for Gov. Haley…
I had no idea Governor Haley had slipped so far to the RINO side of things. Forgetting Mace for the moment, this is troubling to find out about as is Governor Haley’s apparent “tryst”–hardly becoming a supposedly true Conservative! I will have to reconsider my support for Gov. Haley…
You almost make yourself credible Folks until you just blatantly lie about Nancy Mace.
“In 2013, Haley refused to support S.C. Sen. Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) in his bid for the U.S. Congress because it was rumored Mace was providing him with campaign assistance (she wound up staying out of that race).”
Staying out of the race? i volunteered a couple of times for Larry and definitely saw her walk in and out of his campaign office. I think she introduced herself as “Kathryn” or some other name. So now I’m confused as to why she would have a false identity….seems all a bit too shady for someone now running for public office. Sounds like more of the status quo crooked Rod Shealy/Robert Cahaley type of politician this state should get rid off with the weekly trash. Will take a second look at Sen. Bright. He’s been standing up for real conservative causes for a while now.
You almost make yourself credible Folks until you just blatantly lie about Nancy Mace.
“In 2013, Haley refused to support S.C. Sen. Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) in his bid for the U.S. Congress because it was rumored Mace was providing him with campaign assistance (she wound up staying out of that race).”
Staying out of the race? i volunteered a couple of times for Larry and definitely saw her walk in and out of his campaign office. I think she introduced herself as “Kathryn” or some other name. So now I’m confused as to why she would have a false identity….seems all a bit too shady for someone now running for public office. Sounds like more of the status quo crooked Rod Shealy/Robert Cahaley type of politician this state should get rid off with the weekly trash. Will take a second look at Sen. Bright. He’s been standing up for real conservative causes for a while now.
As a conservative American who would support a dead crab over Lyndsey Graham, (the deceased crustacean would do less damage, after all), I just hope the inevitable “circular firing squad” doesn’t pave the way to victory for John McCain’s spooning partner.
“John McCain’s spooning partner”
Ha! Funny! good one
As a conservative American who would support a dead crab over Lyndsey Graham, (the deceased crustacean would do less damage, after all), I just hope the inevitable “circular firing squad” doesn’t pave the way to victory for John McCain’s spooning partner.
“John McCain’s spooning partner”
Ha! Funny! good one