This is the second in an ongoing series about political corruption and ethics reform in South Carolina.
Directly across the street from the State House, on the corner of Gervais and Main Street in Columbia, is a bar called The Whig. To get there, you descend a dank, dark grimy covered stairway, go through an unmarked black door and into an even more dank, dark and grimy room.
On their website, The Whig proudly displays a seal proclaiming itself “North America’s Greatest Dive Bar.”