What Our Motives Aren’t.

If you know this place, we don’t have to tell where it is. If you don’t know this place, we won’t tell you where it is.

It’s a place where several marriages ended — not literally, but some of the actions that occur here cause marriages to end.

There are a large number of legislators, staff, lobbyists, and other peripheral individuals who keep their actions totally above board. Actually, to be either fair or generous, we contend that most act that way.

Unfortunately, in a case of “a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch,” there is also an element that views the legislative session like a three-day-a-week Spring Break lasting from January to June. Everybody knows about it, but nobody talks about it.

We received an e-mail last night asserting that a sitting legislator is among those ranks. The e-mail began, “In relationship to the election, it’s the witching hour and I realize it is too late for this information to have an impact, but here it is anyway.”

We don’t doubt it, but for anyone wondering who the individual may be, we’re sorry. That’s not what this site or this group is about.

While the Carolina Truth Coalition wants to shed light on the way South Carolina politics operates, we’re doing it in a way that focuses on promises made, promises kept, and promises broken.

We’re focusing on candidates or office holders who claim one thing during a campaign, vote differently when they’re elected, and then completely reverse themselves for the next election — denying their own actions and tacking them instead to their opponent.

There are a number of individuals, groups, and sites that will be more than happy to “out” the kind of behavior sent to us, but that isn’t what we want to accomplish here.

We want South Carolina’s voters to understand that although “truth in advertising” is not legally required in political communications, we will do what we can to pull back the curtain to filter through the smoke and mirrors of campaign propaganda.

That’s the truth.