Tim Scott's appointment is a fitting end to Senator DeMint's time in the Senate. There's no more appropriate way to honor DeMint's legacy than by using his retirement to put another rising conservative star in the Senate.
The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) applauded U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) for his outstanding service today following news that DeMint is departing the Senate to become the next president of The Heritage Foundation, the nation's largest and most respected conservative think tank.
Just as the 2012 Republican National Convention was about to begin in Tampa, Charlie Crist -- the former Republican Governor of Florida -- endorsed President Barack Obama.
If Republicans win the Senate, DeMint would grab the gavel of the powerful Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, giving him oversight over everything from highway funding, to NASA, to Internet regulation. Its a position with the power to shape the national agenda over a wide swath of the economy, and DeMint emphatically says hell be just as uncompromising with a gavel in his hand as he has been in his seven years as a bomb-throwing backbencher.
Sen. Jim DeMint is cutting formal ties to his wildly successful small-donor fundraising machine, the Senate Conservatives Fund, so that it can form a super PAC, POLITICO has learned. The super PAC will be able to raise and spend without limits, letting the South Carolina Republican's operatives make runs at the kind of mega donors who have redefined the 2012 fundraising season.