The Rumors are Exagerated.

Contrary to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Harrison, Representative Liston Barfield (R-Conway) remains a thriving member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

In yesterday’s Judiciary Committee meeting, Chairman Harrison noted a member’s absence to “attend Representative Barfield’s funeral.”

As the gallery (and committee members) gasped, the chairman realized his mistake and clarified that he meant the funeral of Representative Barfield’s father J.T. Barfield, Sr. who passed away this past weekend at the age of 82.

During this time, we want Representative Barfield and his family to know that our thoughts and prayers go out to them and how sorry we are for their loss.

We hope others will share their condolences with the Barfield family, as well. To sign the family’s guestbook, click here.

Memorials may be sent to ATC Christian School, 1672 Hwy. 905, Conway, SC 29526.

– The OBB

We Defer.

With the FITSNews piece dominating blogs today, we’re light posting. We’re still in shock.

After all, this is South Carolina. Don’t we expect more from elected officials here? Oh, yeah. Right. We forgot.

Depending on what’s happening at the Statehouse, we may Twitter, but we know the talk will be across the other blog.

– The OBB

ADDITION: The gals and Will did some solid investigation. They should get some love today. Even BIN should take a day away from unfunny hateratin’ for this one.