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"What has the tea party done for this country?" That’s the provocative question posed by veteran trial lawyer Jere Beasley in the September edition of his monthly newsletter. Beasley, a former Alabama lieutenant governor, said Americans should be alarmed at where tea party members of Congress have taken the country in the past several weeks. He said the country has seen the first downgrade of its credit in U.S. history, a tremendous drop in the stock market and dissatisfaction with Congress is at all-time highs. "I believe it’s time to stand up to the tea party movement and expose it...

Great News for Huckabee bashers. Here is a video of another honorable statesman, Former SC Governor David Beasley whom under other circumstances would be treated with the dignity and respect he deserves; however we can assassinate his character and malign him for not buying into the Matt Drudge/Fred Barnes/ Sean Hannity talking points. He's fair game now right?

The wait finally comes to an end Monday for 11 of the 15 MLS players at the 2006 World Cup as the U.S. national team opens Group E play against Czech Republic in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Los Angeles Galaxy's Landon Donovan will lead the U.S. team into action starting at 11:55 a.m. ET on ESPN2. In other action, Australia meets Japan in Kaiserslautern at 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2) for a Group F match. Italy and Ghana clash in the third match of the day, a Group E affair in Hanover at 2:55 p.m. (ESPN2).

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team will face England for the first time since 1994 in a Memorial Weekend match-up at Chicago’s Soldier Field on May 28 at 2 p.m. CT, in a match being broadcast live on ESPN2. The meeting between the two quarterfinalists at the 2002 FIFA World Cup comes amidst the qualifying schedules for both nations as they aim for a spot in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student was once the sweetheart of local Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, friends of hers told ABC Action News, and a former lesbian girlfriend of hers is now in the hospital because of the stress surrounding the case.

DeMint 549 70% Beasley 232 30% http://www.state.sc.us/cgi-bin/scsec/2004/ret2004run If there's other returns sites please list!

Beasley's Last Laugh There are plenty of reasons to vote for David Beasley in the June 22 Republican primary runoff, but beating Inez Tenenbaum in the race to succeed Ernest Hollings isn't one of them. OK, maybe there aren't a lot of reasons to vote for Beasley. Upon reflection, I can't think of even one. Entertainment value, maybe? Hiring the incompetent because they're fun to watch? But the fertilizer being flung by the ex-gov's guru Richard Quinn that Beasley is the best Republican for November is pungent even for an agricultural state like South Carolina. If there is any chance...

U.S. Senate, SC GOP Runoff 6/21/2004 DeMint 54% Beasley 44% Undecided 2% Data Collected 6/18/04 - 6/20/04 Geography State of South Carolina Sample Population 499 Certain Voters Margin of Error 4.5%

Beasley, DeMint attack each other in GOP Senate debate JENNIFER HOLLAND Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. - Former Gov. David Beasley and U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint lashed out at each other's character and political records Sunday night in the final televised debate in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. With voters returning to the polls Tuesday, there wasn't time to be nice. The two seasoned politicians sat across from each other and sparred about the recent barrage of negative campaign ads and issues such as the federal deficit, health care and trade - the biggest difference between the...

Jim DeMint and David Beasley will square-off Monday afternoon (6/21/2004) in a live on-air radio debate in Columbia, SC. The hotly contested runoff for the key Senate seat being vacated by Fritz Hollings has sparked heated tit-for-tats among backers of the former Democrat and SC Govenor David Beasley, and backers of the core conservative runnerup in the primary Jim DeMint. Other true Republican candidates in the primary have thrown their support in the DeMint camp leading many to believe the winner of the primary, the liberal convert Beasley, is in trouble ...

U.S. Senate, SC GOP Runoff 6/15/2004 Beasley 48% Demint 47% Undecided 5% Data Collected 6/12/04 - 6/14/04 Geography State of South Carolina Sample Population 527 Certain Voters Margin of Error 4.4%

8 days to South Carolina GOP Senate Runoff: Beasley & Demint in Dead-Heat Beasley won 6/8 primary by 13, before Demint was endorsed by 3rd-place Ravenel. * In a Republican runoff election for US Senate in South Carolina today, David Beasley & Jim Demint tie, according to SurveyUSA poll of 527 certain runoff voters. * Today, 8 days out, It's Beasley 48%, Demint 47%, in data gathered 6/12 - 6/14. * Beasley leads among voters age 49 & under; Demint leads among voters age 50+. * Beasley leads among conservatives; Demint leads among moderates. * Beasley leads in Eastern SC;...

Posted on Sun, Jun. 13, 2004 DeMint has first negative ad of runoff By AARON GOULD SHEININ Staff Writer The first negative ad of the Republican U.S. Senate runoff campaign hit the airwaves Saturday, a spot that features two older gents arguing whether David Beasley is a “flip-flopper” or merely “wishy-washy.” The ad, by the campaign of U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint, attacks Beasley over his changing positions on the Confederate flag and state lottery while he was governor from 1995-99. “I don’t get this Beasley fella,” one man says to his friend. “He was against moving the flag; he’s for...

South Carolina's GOP Senate Primary Forces Beasley Into Runoff NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Hoping for a political comeback, former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley found himself unable to clinch a primary victory and was forced into a runoff in his bid to win the Republican nomination for one of the nation's most closely watched Senate seats. Tuesday's primary put Beasley up against three-term Rep. Jim DeMint in the GOP's effort to grab the longtime Democrat seat held by retiring Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings. Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum won the Democrats' nomination. Beasley got 37 percent of the vote,...

12 HOURS TIL POLLS OPEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA: BEASLEY 38%, RAVENEL 23%, DEMINT 20%. * On the eve of the GOP Primary for U.S. Senate in South Carolina. David Beasley appears certain to advance to 6/22 runoff, but it's unclear if he will face Thomas Ravenel or Jim Demint. According to SurveyUSA Poll of 500 certain GOP voters conducted 6/3 + 6/4 + 6/5. * 12 hours till polls open, It's Beasley 38% (Down 5 Pts in Past 2 Wks), Ravenel 23% (Up 6 Pts in Past 2 Wks), Demint 20% (Down 1 Pt), Charlie Condon 12% (Down 4 Pts)...

As an unapologetic political junkie, I keep track of all the interesting Senate races around the country (well, and some house races, governor races, etc, but thats a different story). I have opinions on who I want to win in the primary in most states, but I have a really tough choice in South Carolina. I think it's safe to say, that barring something nuts, the R nominee is going to be either former Gov. David Beasley or Rep. Jim DeMint. Anyhow, I like both men, they both seem like solid candidates, so it's hard to decide. On issues, they...

<p>COLUMBIA, S.C., April 14 (UPI) -- A Republican poll shows former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley ahead of Democrat Inez Tenenbaum for a U.S. Senate seat.</p> <p>The survey shows Beasley, who served one term as governor, leads Tenenbaum, the state education superintendent, 48 percent to 33 percent, with 20 percent undecided.</p>

Former Gov. David Beasley formally launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate Monday, vowing to make job creation his chief focus. South Carolina has lost more than 73,000 jobs in the past three years. “This is a crisis, the most pressing issue of our time,” Beasley told a packed news conference attended by friends, legislators and former staffers. Beasley joins a crowded field of Republicans — now five in all — vying for a shot at the party’s nomination in the June 8 primary. U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., will retire next year after 38 years in office. Every year...

Call it that old Beasley luck. A good six months after four other Republican candidates declared their candidacies for retiring U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings' seat, former Gov. David Beasley announced two weeks ago he's running. He's instantly the front-runner. How does he do it? He was first elected to the S.C. House at age 21, then became one of the state's youngest governors in 1994 at age 35. Dark-haired and telegenic, Beasley has always projected a youthful air. And still does, even though he now acknowledges a few gray hairs, which he says is a result of the maturation...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Former Republican Gov. David Beasley, who fought to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol dome, announced Wednesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate. Beasley faces an already crowded GOP field in the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings. Other Republicans seeking the nomination include former state Attorney General Charlie Condon, U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint, Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride and Charleston real estate developer Thomas Ravenel. The top Democrat in the race is state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum.

COLUMBIA - Former S.C. Gov. David Beasley is expected to announce today that he is jumping into an already-crowded pool of candidates for the U.S. Senate seat that will come open when Fritz Hollings retires at the end of this year. Beasley, 46, a Republican who was defeated for re-election in 1998, has called a 1 p.m. news conference in Columbia. GOP sources say Beasley has already told a number of people that he will make the race. The former governor would neither confirm nor deny that in a telephone interview Tuesday from Darlington, S.C. But he did say, "I'll...

Former Republican Gov. David Beasley has scheduled a news conference next week to discuss his potential candidacy for U.S. Senate. “I’m going to make an announcement as to where I am in the decision-making process,” he said. Beasley declined to elaborate. He has been considering the race for several months. Robert Adams, who served as Beasley’s campaign manager when he ran for governor in 1994, said he would be “shocked” if Beasley did not offer for the Senate. “My expectations are he will run.” The news conference is tentatively set for Wednesday in Columbia. Richard Quinn, a Columbia-based consultant retained...

<p>SPARTANBURG — It wasn't like the old days. David Beasley had to write his own speech.</p> <p>Sitting in his car outside the Beacon, the former governor scribbled notes over several pages of a legal pad.</p> <p>He had driven from a business trip to Charlotte to address a group of College Republicans, the crowd enlarged by the addition of a number of older members of the GOP.</p>

Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride drew only 2 percent support, even from Republican primary voters, in the only statewide poll published so far in the U.S. Senate campaign. But McBride, who has been campaigning nearly a year, said he is not concerned about polls or about his continued lag in donations. "I'm very happy with where we are right now," McBride said. "I have a methodology and a plan." That plan is working, he said, as his recognition and votes in local straw polls pick up. McBride said his support will continue to climb in the next six months before...

Inez Tenenbaum offers Democrats their best hope of hanging on to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Fritz Hollings, experts say. The only question is, can the state superintendent of education pull it off in a state that has been trending Republican for the past 10 years? The GOP holds the governorship, controls both houses of the General Assembly and has a lock on four of the state’s six congressional seats, as well as the other U.S. Senate post. Tenenbaum faces a tough road. “In South Carolina in 2004, she’s going to have an uphill fight,” Winthrop...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Efforts to draft former Gov. David Beasley to run for the U.S. Senate are hitting the highway. A group of about 20 legislators, Beasley fans and friends piled into a motor home and cars Thursday and drove to Beasley's Darlington office. It was part of an ongoing push to convince the former governor to run in the Republican primary for the seat U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., will retire from in 2005. "We kind of caught him off guard," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison, R-Columbia. The bank he works for was getting ready for...

Former Attorney General Charlie Condon won Monday's Charles-ton County Republican Party straw poll of candidates in next year's U.S. Senate race, but the name of potential candidate David Beasley kept cropping up. Many party members said Beas-ley should get in the race, despite the baggage of losing the governor's office in 1998 after one term. "I would think he'd be the real front-runner," Republican Vickie McCoy said at Monday's county convention, where long-time GOP activist Cyndi Mosteller was elected party chairwoman, defeating Charles Steinert. Condon, of Sullivan's Island, collected 152 votes in the straw poll of the four Republicans running...

COLUMBIA--For the past five years, former Gov. David Beasley has been raising his four kids with his wife on their Pee Dee farm, coaching Little League and sometimes traveling to Asia and Africa to do humanitarian work. His public life has become a distant memory. It is no accident, he said, that he lives far from the "political morass" of the Capital City. But now he's finding that fate can be something of a wise guy: Just when you think you're out, they pull you back in. Encouraged and flattered by private polls that say he would trounce every candidate...

<p>A small sample of a space shuttle tile glows during a demonstration by Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Center educationalist Jeff Lucas.</p> <p>The protective ceramic tiles on the space shuttle -- invented, designed, tested and produced in Silicon Valley -- are at the center of the investigation into what caused the Columbia disaster.</p>