The Right-Wing Dark Money Group That May Be Coming to Your State Next
South Carolina’s Freedom Caucus is one of eleven such groups in state legislatures across the country. Funded by right-wing dark money, they’ve shown an obsession with enforcing their own bizarre hang-ups over race and gender.
The exterior of the South Carolina state house is seen on January 29, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
I saw a truly asinine spectacle last week in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
A handful of lawmakers had proposed a bill (H. 3868) to designate the second Saturday of November as “Women in Hunting and Fishing Awareness Day.” This is the kind of frivolous nonsense that pads out the horrors of every legislative season — but we haven’t gotten to the asinine part yet.
Rep. R. J. May III, a Lexington County Republican and vice chair of the state’s hard-right “Freedom Caucus,” rose to propose an amendment. He looked a little nervous as he rose to speak, the way an honor roll kid might rise to sass his teacher.
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