Wesley Donehue calls out SC Hotline, which used to be a news aggregator but only if your news was reactionary enough to pass the proprietor's biases. SC Hotline has dumped all over a consulting firm run by a person called Warren Tompkins, alleging one of the candidates to succeed Massa Dawson as SCGOP chief is a puppet of the Tompkins firm, which, SC Hotline says, blows through a lot of candidates' money but doesn't produce much in the way of results.
Donehue says SC Hotline slurs his record, as near as we can tell. BTW, it's "little gem," not "little gym."
Donehue is with a consulting firm called Under The Power Lines. Sewell runs a political consultancy, too, and, by his own account, is pretty godlike.
Jay Carney at Time said Tompkins was a star descending in 2007. The Palmetto Scoop has a post citing the SC Hotline story and generally slagging Tompkins.
The Scoop is run by one Adam Fogle, who says he is
"a 24-year-old account representative for Mail Marketing Strategies in Columbia, S.C. — a firm that provides copying, printing and direct mail services to hundreds of clients and is owned by former House Majority Leader Rick Quinn, whose father Richard Quinn serves as a consultant to numerous political candidates in South Carolina, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). As an employee at MMS, Fogle works in a web-based capacity to assist a handful of the firm’s state and local clients in developing websites, utilizing multimedia content and achieving other Internet-oriented goals.
Fogle is a 2006 graduate of Georgia Southern University with a degree in broadcast journalism. Prior to founding The Palmetto Scoop, he served as a contributor for the Georgia blog Peach Pundit and ran an independent website supporting the campaign of Republican Max Burns for Georgia’s 12th Congressional District.
He is a lifelong conservative who espouses a pragmatic, not ideological, approach to politics."
Fogle doesn't seem to like Tompkins and has taken some licks at Donehue as well, calling him "my arch-nemesis" last December.
None of which really explains anything about why Donehue is answering posts by SC Hotline that don't name him.
And we haven't even begun to plumb the precincts of FITSNews and The Columbia Conservative. Not to mention various and sundry Shealeys. Nor have we begun to scratch the tetchy surface of the Progressive Borg over at Indigo Journal. One empire at a time.
ha! Wes is a former employee of Tompkins - though I think, I believe, that he may still do 'contract' work for Tompkins using his own Consulting firm. It's all a huge incestuous blob - the GOP in South Carolina.
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