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BREAKING: SC Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN 6-week abortion ban in 3-2 vote, saying it violates constitutional right to privacy: “Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time” for a woman to know she is pregnant and “take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy.”
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Doors opening a few hours before
@SCSTATE1896
’s fall convocation, which begins at 1 p.m. and where
@VP
Kamala Harris will speak. This will be Harris’ third visit to South Carolina since becoming VP.
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Judge Clifton Newman has temporarily blocked the enforcement of SC’s six-week abortion ban, one day after Gov. Henry McMaster signed it into law, and ordered abortion providers’ lawsuit challenging the law be transferred to the state Supreme Court.
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Not on my bingo card tonight: The Colleton County Clerk of Court being introduced at the Miss South Carolina USA pageant to rousing applause on the heels of the Murdaugh trial: “She read off the verdict: Guilty.”
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After a two-day filibuster led by SC’s five female senators against the House-passed abortion ban from conception, Senate votes 22-21 to end debate on the bill for the rest of this session, which ends May 11 (so the bill is dead for the rest of the year).
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@VP
Kamala Harris made one more stop during her Columbia visit at Colonial Life Arena for the
@GamecockWBB
shootaround before their game against Kentucky tonight. She commended the players for their achievements and told
@dawnstaley
, “Coach, you’re killing it.”
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@VP
Kamala Harris joins
@RepJamesClyburn
in Columbia today to file for
@POTUS
to appear on the ballot for South Carolina’s 2024 First in the Nation Democratic primary ⬇️
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@GamecockWBB
and
@dawnstaley
being honored today at the State House after winning their second national championship Sunday. Lots of FAMs and garnet among the lawmakers here in the House chamber!
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@POTUS
attending service this morning at St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, the home church of former Columbia Mayor
@SteveBenjaminSC
and WNBA/former USC WBB star
@_ajawilson22
(and
@KimpsonForSC
’s family). Biden sitting with
@RepJamesClyburn
and Benjamin.
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@JoeCunninghamSC
calling for the state legislature to delay a special session to consider a change to South Carolina’s abortion law until after the November election: “Voters will tell us exactly what they want us to do about this issue in November.”
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A Cedar Rapids man has planted these flags in his yard for nearly a year, with each of the nearly 6,000 flags symbolizing an Iowan who died from COVID-19. Dennis Turner says he sometimes gets emotional adding flags to the field, but he’ll keep it out “until this is over.”
@KCRG
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@VP
Kamala Harris is here to a warm welcome from the
@SCSTATE1896
crowd. Harris tells the freshman class they’re “students united by the pursuit of excellence” and that there’s “no barrier you cannot break.”
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Senators set to begin debate tomorrow on the permitless carry bill, which the House has already passed. This would allow most adults in SC (18+) to carry handguns without training or a permit. Bill also includes tougher felon-in-possession penalties, which the governor wants.
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Awaiting the VP’s arrival, but
@SCSTATE1896
students aren’t letting time go to waste here at Smith–Hammond–Middleton Memorial Center
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SC senators *officially* pass the bill to legalize medical marijuana in a 24-19 vote — bill now heads to the House. Sen. Brad Hutto leads applause for the lead sponsor,
@SenTomDavisSC
, on “one of the hardest, longest-fought battles in this history of this state.”
SC Senate gives
@SenTomDavisSC
’s bill to legalize medical marijuana second reading — essentially passing it — in a 26-17 vote. After a final Senate vote tomorrow, the bill will head to the House, where it died on a technicality two years ago.
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@VP
Harris encourages students to vote in the midterm elections in 49 days: “Your vote is your voice, and we need your voice. We need you to lead America forward.”
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👋🏻 Today’s my last day at KCRG. It’s been real, it’s been fun, but it’s been way too cold for this Floridian, so I’ve gotta get out of Iowa before winter returns. Many thanks to the TV9 crew + everyone who’s taken time to chat in the last few years! I’m grateful for my time here.
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While shooting video today, a stranger told me I belonged in court “for war crimes” (at least I get a trial?). Yesterday, a stranger yelled at me because the AP called the election sooner than he apparently would’ve liked.
I guess the Christmas spirit hasn’t arrived in Iowa yet!
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Gov.
@henrymcmaster
signs a bill enacting SC’s first school voucher program. Starting the 24-25 school year, certain families will be able to receive $6K in state $ to pay for private school tuition and related costs—GOP leaders call this a “transformative” and “monumental” day.
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The crowd is marching from Zion Baptist Church in downtown Columbia to the State House for this portion of King Day at the Dome, where
@VP
Kamala Harris will speak. The theme of this year’s event is “Ballots for Freedom, Ballots for Justice, Ballots for Change.”
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Public school teachers + staff in South Carolina will officially get up to six weeks of paid family leave when they welcome a child to their family via birth, adoption, or fostering — Gov.
@henrymcmaster
signed that bill into law Friday, effective June 26:
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@TomSteyer
tells the crowd he’s running because the US has “a broken government” that works well for corporations but not for Americans; also encourages Dems to show up and vote “at record levels” for change at every level of govt
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SC Senate gives
@SenTomDavisSC
’s bill to legalize medical marijuana second reading — essentially passing it — in a 26-17 vote. After a final Senate vote tomorrow, the bill will head to the House, where it died on a technicality two years ago.
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Standing-room-only crowd in a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, where three gun bills are on the agenda. They include constitutional/permitless carry, which would allow people 18+ to carry concealed, loaded weapons without a permit or training — this has already passed in the House.
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Inbox: Roman Catholic bishops in SC, NC, and GA are calling on the legislatures in those states and Congress “to take decisive action to implement meaningful legislation addressing the plague of gun violence we face nationwide and at home in our local communities.”
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Hundreds (if not more) people demonstrating in Iowa City tonight. It’s hard to capture just how many people are here. This is by far the biggest group in the protests I’ve covered the last few days
@KCRG
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The Iowa City demonstrators are now outside the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, where deputies have taken a knee in a show of solidarity before rising back up
@KCRG
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Ahead of tonight’s debate,
@JoeCunninghamSC
holding a news conference with Fran Coyle, who told her story in a Cunningham ad as a rape survivor at 12 who got an abortion: “I was not a baby killer, a sinner or a whore. I was a child with no economic way to support a child.”
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.
@EPAMichaelRegan
and
@RepJamesClyburn
riding on one of 168 electric school buses headed to SC as part of $66M for new electric school buses the federal government is sending the state. As Clyburn tells a student, SC’s allotment is third-most among all states.
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Majority opinion written by Justice Kaye Hearn, the only woman on South Carolina’s five-person Supreme Court bench:
Hearn: “This Act … is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional.”
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@POTUS
Joe Biden has arrived at
@scdp
’s First in the Nation Dinner in Columbia, seated at a table between
@RepJamesClyburn
and SCDP Chair
@cspain1920
, along with former state Sen.
@KimpsonForSC
, who now works for the Biden administration, and state Sen.
@HarpootlianSC
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@wis10
@wmbfnews
@WRDW_WAGT
@WTOC11
@Live5News
@foxcarolinanews
@VP
After King Day at the Dome,
@VP
Kamala Harris made a campaign stop at Big T’s Bar-B-Que in Lower Richland to urge voters to get out for SC’s Feb. 3 Dem primary, saying SC “sets the tone…and there’s is so much at stake”
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Inbox:
@SCHouseDems
will hold a press conference tomorrow, urging the Senate to pass the Clementa Pinckney Hate Crime Bill.
The bill passed the House last year but is currently in committee in the Senate.
SC is one of two states without a state hate crimes law.
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I don’t know what the coming hours, days, and months will bring, but I do know this: A gorgeous, 70-degree day in Iowa in November is something to celebrate.
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News in the SC gubernatorial race: Democratic candidate
@JoeCunninghamSC
will announce his running mate at a lieutenant governor kickoff event in Greenville next Monday at 5:30 p.m. (email says venue TBD, but it will be open the public at 5 p.m.)
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@VP
works the rope line after speaking for about 15 min to the
@SCSTATE1896
crowd. Harris got big cheers from the crowd when mentioning student loan forgiveness and the Biden admin’s goals to protect abortion access, expand mental healthcare, and pass voting rights legislation.
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FOLKS, the Venus flytrap is now *officially* the official state carnivorous plant of South Carolina, with the governor signing it into law today.
What a pleasure it has been to follow this through to the end. I’ll miss it 🥲
The Venus flytrap is one signature from Gov. Henry McMaster away from becoming South Carolina’s official carnivorous plant. The House unanimously passed the Senate-approved bill to give it that designation last week (apologies for missing this massive update until today 😔)
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Sometimes you leave the State House the morning of Nov. 8 and you come back the afternoon of Nov. 8 and it’s Christmas
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Almost a week after the
#derecho
, this is Westdale Court Apartments in SW Cedar Rapids.
Surrounded by glass, nails, and exposed wires, we found someone’s homework. The prompt — “write the scariest story you can.”
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Added to the list of surreal 2020 events: Teachers lined up to prepare living wills before going back to school. A 25-year-old told me this is never how she would’ve pictured getting ready for her 2nd year teaching. Another said it’d be a fitting subject for a Dalí painting.
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@SCSTATE1896
’s fall convocation is getting started a little early, with
@VP
Kamala Harris and
@SecCardona
delivering remarks later.
Earlier today, they held a roundtable discussion with
@ClaflinUniv1869
students on topics including mental health (per
@JoeBReporter
).
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If the possibility of getting hit by a car doesn't scare you, then maybe getting hit with a fine will?
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Omega Psi Phi members at
@AlbanyStateUniv
prepared 100+ plates for storm victims over last 2 days. Some even helped between class and work!
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We’re just four days into session, but at this point, a good quarter of the legislature has probably already stumbled upon
@BeckyBuddstv
and me like this — sitting on the ground, scarfing down our lunches, working, and waiting for people to talk with us, all at the same time
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Cunningham: “I’m angry that women have to publicly tell their deepest, personal and private stories in hopes of being heard by their state legislature and our governor.” Cunningham says if he wrote SC’s abortion law, “the law as before, under Roe v. Wade, was appropriate.”
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In
@UofSCLaw
roundtable on Ukraine,
@LindseyGrahamSC
says “world order is at stake” w/ war in Ukraine. Graham describes nuclear arms race potential, as Ukraine gave up its nukes in ’94 to guarantee sovereignty, which Russia has violated: “That’s coming if we get Ukraine wrong.”
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Just in: Face coverings are now REQUIRED in public in Cedar Rapids, as Mayor Brad Hart signed an emergency mandate today.
Hart: “We have continued to see an increase of cases throughout Iowa, making a mask mandate more critical than ever to slow the spread in our community.”
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Cars lined up along Highway 61 in Dubuque ahead of the Trump campaign’s Make America Great Again Victory rally this afternoon. President Trump is scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m.
@KCRG
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SC Democratic gubernatorial candidate
@JoeCunninghamSC
is calling for four debates with Republican Gov.
@henrymcmaster
across the state this fall ahead of the November election, plus one lieutenant governor debate. Here’s Cunningham’s proposed schedule:
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.
@SecCardona
encourages
@SCSTATE1896
students to vote and touts the $ the Biden admin has sent to HBCUs: “Investing in HBCUs is investing in America.” Cardona gets big cheers when he notes 100% of the country’s Black and female VPs in history are HBCU grads (
@VP
is a Howard grad)
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Guaranteed paid parental leave for public school teachers in SC when they welcome a new child via birth, adoption, or fostering will soon be on the governor’s desk — House members just unanimously voted to agree with changes senators made to the bill last week.
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Sorry for crashing the interview,
@JasonRaven_
😳
After two long nights of debate, House sergeants gifted State House reporters pizza.
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The 63K military retirees in South Carolina will no longer pay state income taxes on their retirement benefits, as
@henrymcmaster
ceremonially signs the bill that puts South Carolina in the group of 30+ other states with a full exemption
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If only you could smell the magnolias through a photo (unless you’re allergic, in which case, this is probably for the best)
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Senators line up to give hugs and handshakes to Rep.
@brandonguffeysc
after passing his bill to criminalize sexual extortion, which Guffey filed in honor of his son, Gavin, who lost his life to suicide last year after being sexually extorted.
Standing ovation + an emotional moment in the SC House chamber as reps unanimously pass Rep.
@brandonguffeysc
’s bill to crack down on sextortion. Guffey lost his son, Gavin, to suicide last year after he was sexually extorted — Guffey has made it his purpose to pass this bill.
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You know you cover a state legislature when your google searches range on any given day from “What is a tortfeasor” to “Where is medical marijuana legal” to “Hunting feral hogs from helicopters”
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It’s nearly 9 p.m., senators are still debating, and I’m still here.
But it might be worth it to hear
@KimpsonForSC
say “kowwwtowww” thrice in a 10-sec. span and give his lipstick-on-a-pig analogy (“It’s still a pig—even the milkman knows that!”) for perhaps the last time here.
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The president has an open invitation to see the damage at Westdale Court Apartments in SW Cedar Rapids, from resident Desiree Burton:
News — despite saying he might stop by Iowa today,
@realDonaldTrump
will head to Cedar Rapids *tomorrow*, per two people familiar. Iowa was hit badly by a derecho last week
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Before the SC House debates the six-week abortion ban, with session starting at noon, Rep.
@GCobbHunter
speaks with supporters in the State House lobby — she says the only way they’ll change the votes on this issue is “by changing the faces of the men and women in here”
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A House Judiciary subcommittee votes 5-0 to advance the “Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act” to full committee—it would make SC the 49th state with a hate crimes law, and nearly half the House is sponsoring it. The same bill passed the House last session but died in the Senate.
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Before our interview, my colleague and I were not tested for COVID. Our temperatures were taken, and we answered a few quick screening questions, like if we had symptoms in the last two weeks and if we’d recently been in close contact with someone who did test positive.
Dear Mr. Vice President, have you been tested tonight? Asking as you were in Iowa Thursday and held multiple events- with most in attendance not wearing face coverings and our reporter
@MaryGreenNews
interviewed you, she wore a mask but you didn’t.
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Permitless carry is now law in SC: Adults 18+ who can legally possess guns can now openly carry them with no permit or prior training. Gov.
@henrymcmaster
just signed the bill into law in a closed-press ceremony — it’s in effect immediately. (Photo provided by governor’s office)
SC’s permitless carry gun bill will soon head to Gov.
@henrymcmaster
: Senators just agreed to the compromise worked out Tuesday in a 28-18 vote, which the House OKed yesterday in an 86-33 vote. Both votes were largely, but not totally, along party lines.
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Quite the day at the SC State House as first the fire alarm goes off in the midst of session, then the lobby is enraptured by a mission to capture not one but two rogue purple balloons
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The USDA estimates up to 20 million American kids will be better able to access food this summer through a new, federal program.
But kids in South Carolina won’t be among them — here’s why ⬇️
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Last week,
@SCHouseDems
drafted 1000+ amendments on the six-week ban. Rep.
@bethbernsteinsc
says they have “no intention” of pulling any of them down: “No one — especially the 170 members of the General Assembly, who are mostly men — should stand between a woman and her doctor.”
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Here’s that video-billboard truck driving along King Street in downtown Charleston just over an hour before Haley’s event is set to begin, along with an apparent fan of her former boss and now rival for the GOP nomination, former President Donald Trump ⬇️
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Reaction from the White House to the SC Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the state’s six-week ban on abortion ⬇️
We are encouraged by South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruling today on the state’s extreme and dangerous abortion ban. Women should be able to make their own decisions about their bodies.
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DNC Chair
@harrisonjaime
spoke today in Columbia about this and whether SC Dems might not vote in today’s Dem primary to wait to vote for
@NikkiHaley
in the Feb. 24 SC GOP primary: “Nikki, just understand that South Carolina Democrats are not going to vote for you.” ⬇️
.
@Primary_Pivot
sent 200k+ texts to South Carolinians who voted in the 2020 Dem primary today, urging recipients to sit out the Democratic primary tomorrow and vote for Nikki Haley in the GOP primary instead.
Here’s the two different messages they sent out today:
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“Five days in, where in the world is our government helping us out?”
This is dire: People are sleeping in tents outside their uninhabitable homes in Cedar Rapids. Many of them are refugees and don’t have family to turn to.
@mobrientv
’s powerful report:
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Rule No. 1 of reporting in Iowa: Don’t forget your microphone when it’s clipped to a cornstalk.
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Chris Bosh wanted me to tell everyone Happy St. Patrick’s Day and go Irish!
(He can’t tweet because he doesn’t have Twitter or a phone or thumbs 😔)
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Congressman Dave Loebsack introduces Pete Buttigieg before a rally in Cedar Rapids tonight: “I’ve rarely met anyone who has such a combination of so many different things that it takes to be President.”
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Standing ovation + an emotional moment in the SC House chamber as reps unanimously pass Rep.
@brandonguffeysc
’s bill to crack down on sextortion. Guffey lost his son, Gavin, to suicide last year after he was sexually extorted — Guffey has made it his purpose to pass this bill.
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With
@VP
’s visit to
@SCSTATE1896
tomorrow, members of the Biden administration who have visited the Orangeburg HBCU since last December include:
- President Joe Biden
- VP Kamala Harris
- Education Sec. Miguel Cardona
- Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm
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.
@SCHouseDems
’ eight female members carrying in 1,000+ amendments drafted ahead of the House’s upcoming debate on the six-week abortion ban. Dems proposed a number of amendments to the bill during yesterday’s committee meeting, but none were adopted.
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SC House votes 90-30 to give second reading — essentially passing — to a bill allowing people 18+ in SC to carry loaded, concealed weapons without a permit or training. The “constitutional carry” bill will head to Senate after a perfunctory third reading in the House tomorrow.
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If one remnant from 2020 survives to 2021, I pray this will be it.
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Memorial service will be held this morning in Columbia for K9 Rico, a 3-yr-old Belgian Malinois mix who was killed during a manhunt for a shooting suspect on Johns Island last week — Gov. McMaster among those expected to be here. Rico worked on SLED’s SWAT and K9 Tracking teams.
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We just wrapped up our 10 p.m. live shot here in Camden and walked back to the car to warm up, only to find a surprise new friend decided to hitch a ride as well!
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Biden spoke for about 5 min during St. John Baptist Church’s service in Columbia, about his faith and the importance of the Black church “in all those periods of darkness”: “What a gift to the nation and the world you’ve been,” saying it’s pushed the US “to a more perfect union”
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“A miracle”: What a NE Cedar Rapids neighborhood is calling this group from Christian Aid Ministries. The volunteers showed up this morning, to most neighbors’ surprise, and are cutting down trees and removing debris for free — work neighbors expected to take months to do
@KCRG
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My Thursday night commute leaving work normally involves driving past crowded downtown bars.
But with bars closed in Cedar Rapids, tonight’s drive involved encountering a gentleman riding an electric scooter while wearing a traffic cone on his head.
Nature is, indeed, healing.
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Ruff day at the State House for K-9 Chip, the nation’s first probation and parole electronics detection dog
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Judge Clifton Newman has officially ordered the temporary injunction on the six-week abortion ban, meaning abortion is back to being legal in SC before ~20 weeks into a pregnancy. This block is in place indefinitely, until a court rules otherwise:
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There’s a heavy police presence outside Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville—every entrance is blocked off. Police just handcuffed a young man, talked with him about a “stupid decision” they said he made and then uncuffed him. Now people are yelling, “No justice, no peace.”
@KCRG
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Starting this new school year, SC public school teachers and staff are now guaranteed up to six weeks of paid leave when they welcome a child via birth, adoption, or fostering. Gov.
@henrymcmaster
joined educators and other state leaders in Rock Hill today to mark the new law ⬇️
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The bill that would require athletes in SC schools compete based on the gender they were assigned at birth will now head to Gov. McMaster. The House just voted to agree w/ changes the Senate made when it passed the transgender sports bill, the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” last week
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Me before every debate, hearing, meeting, presser, etc at the State House
Wait can someone tell me the tea ahead of time 😂 im tryna be in the loop
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Police chiefs from Conway and Myrtle Beach oppose the lack of training requirements in the permitless carry bill. SC Sheriffs’ Association says it could take “neutral position” on bill if stronger penalties are added for felons in possession but would oppose without it.
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Alliant says power will be back for a “significant number of customers” by the end of Tuesday. It says crews are packing *8 months* of work into seven days to do this.
We have over 700 crews (triple the normal 'boots on the ground') now working on restoration – and more help is arriving every day from around the nation.
In seven days, we will replace more than 2,500 poles across the state – the equivalent of 8 months of usual work.
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For those wondering: Yes, Sen. Dick Harpootlian is back in the South Carolina Senate for the first day in session since the Murdaugh trial ended.
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This is a real shame. I know Beth was going to ask questions that so many Iowans have been asking, begging, and demanding answers to for over a week now — and they deserve to have those answers.
Passed the test. Failed the interview. ‘Cause it’s not happening. Cancelled.
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.
@BethMalicki
is talking with Gov. Kim Reynolds live on air right now. Reynolds confirms the IA National Guard will be deployed to Linn Co.
Beth asked the governor, “Is this bigger than the flood of 2008?”
Reynolds: “Oh yeah, for sure…It is devastating. It is widespread.”
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Mount Vernon is the latest eastern Iowa city to require face coverings in public ⬇️
Iowa City and Muscatine do as well, while Waterloo is considering adopting a mask mandate soon.
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Nikki Haley set to join former Pres. Donald Trump as the only Republicans to announce they're running for president in '24 so far.
Here's what Trump told me Saturday about a convo he says he recently had with Haley: "I said, 'If your heart wants to do it, you have to go do it.'"
She's running.
@NikkiHaley
will announce campaign for president on Feb. 15 in Charleston, SC, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Supporters to receive email invite tomorrow.
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South Carolina can now enforce its ban on most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected (after ~6 weeks), with a federal judge just staying the injunction on the Fetal Heartbeat Law. The law had been blocked by courts since right after Gov. McMaster signed it last year.
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Strange, out-of-context questions from viewers about my job, part 823: “Are you the face?”
In other news, “The Face” is both my new job title and my wrestling nickname.
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In a 53-45 vote, House approves
@RepWetmore
’s bill to let candidates for office in SC use campaign $ on dependent care expenses (e.g. childcare) related to campaign activity—already allowed in 30 states + at federal level. After final House approval tomorrow, bill goes to Senate.
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