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And, of course, Myron Chorbajian was a GOP "precinct leader." I mean, don't we all know by now what "G.O.P" stands for?

So Adam Morgan, Patch the Pirate's son-in-law, is under investigation with the South Carolina Ethics Commission. Since his bestie is Matt Gaetz, this shouldn't be a surprise.

But the new First Lady of Bob Jones University, Ellen McAllister, is aghast. "Adam is as ethical a man in politics as you will ever find," she insists.

Really?

The SC GOP is featuring Steve Bannon and Steve Eager & Friends next Monday, April 14.

The State reported this weekend that Ellen Weaver's Department of education "retained a private attorney" to help it limit schools from choosing their own books for their own libraries.

The attorney? Class of 2005 Miles Coleman.

The State did a good job of covering Miles' deep ties with the "intellectual" side of Klandamentalism:

Miles Coleman, an attorney with the prominent Nelson Mullins law firm and president of the Columbia chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative national legal group, was contracted by the Department of Education to represent it regarding the new regulation. Coleman, who the Education Department described as a nationally recognized expert in First Amendment law, was retained at a rate of $225 an hour, according to a request to employ outside counsel that state Superintendent Ellen Weaver filed with the state Attorney General’s Office.

They continued:

Coleman, a partner at Nelson Mullins in Greenville, also specializes in appeals, business litigation and complex civil and criminal litigation, according to his bio. Among other clients, he represented the Pickens County school district in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP concerning the district’s decision to ban the book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. He also represented the Christian Learning Centers of Greenville, a private religious education provider, in their fight to obtain a $1.5 million state earmark. A 2009 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Coleman has been heavily involved in conservative organizations. In addition to being a member of the executive committee of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, Coleman was a fellow at the National Review and is currently the secretary of the board of directors at School Ministries, an organization that provides support for public school students to go off campus during school hours to study the bible. While in law school, Coleman also received a 2007 Blackstone Legal Fellowship. The fellowship is a summer legal training program run by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group, which was designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ADF has strongly denied this characterization and describes itself as a leading Christian law firm “committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.” “Mr. Coleman is a nationally recognized First Amendment expert whose work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Coleman was engaged by the SCDE regarding the State Board of Education’s instructional materials regulation to help ensure it protected students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights,” Raven said. While the Department of Education has a general counsel, it’s not unusual for state agencies to work with outside counsel when special expertise is needed, Raven told The State. Coleman also appeared to take a leading role in pitching the new rule to legislators. In April, Coleman appeared at least twice before legislators to explain the need for the new rule, saying that it aimed to fix a “patchwork quilt of 80 or more different policies,” according to the South Carolina Daily Gazette. He also defended the regulation’s sweeping prohibition on “sexual content” in library books and classroom materials. By keeping the definition broad, Coleman told lawmakers that the Department of Education was trying to avoid lengthy debates about what did or did not meet standards, according to the Daily Gazette. “It’s simple enough that it’s not going to get bogged down,” he told lawmakers.

We all know Miles. We know his parents:

And remember his grandfather too.

And do you remember what his grandfather said about Chuck Phelps after we alumni were up-in-arms about his defense of a violent rapist?

Letters to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and SC Attorney General Alan Wilson say there was a conspiracy to commit fraud, circumvent state law in the election.

That's what he told The State yesterday:

"Ellen Weaver has completed all the academic requirements for the Master of Science in Educational Leadership from Bob Jones University,” Page said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “Weaver’s diploma will be presented on Friday, December 16, 2022, but she has completed all requirements and earned her Master of Science degree.”

This screen shot is kicking around as well:

Must be nice to have monied supporters giving you your degree so that you can run the public schools in your state into the ground.

On Friday, Weaver announced on social media that she had completed “every single requirement” to receive her master’s degree in educational leadership from Bob Jones University, a Christian school located in her hometown of Greenville, S.C.

Here's Weaver's announcement:

Elmer Rumminger distributed this to the BJU faculty in 1995. We got these sorts of things regularly. Read it:

The pro-abortion forces are mounting an all-out effort to take control of both political parties in South Carolina.

They will succeed unless Christians and other pro-lifers turn out in large numbers to their regular polling places for the precinct reorganizational meetings schedule in September for Republicans next March for Democrats....

Pro-choicers currently dominate the Democrat party. What if they succeed in taking control of the Republican Party as well?...

MUCH IS AT STAKE!