SANFORD TO ENDORSE CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAIR FOR TREASURER
A Charleston County Council chair for Treasurer? (Tim Scott Pictured above) First of this week we were to understand that Sanford would appoint a retired Army nurse to head the 4.7 billion dollar DHHS and now this?
Disclaimer: We are not agreeing with or disagreeing with the Gov’s actions simply very curious and that is where you come in so blog away…
[UPDATE] Blogs Of The Day – http://botd.wordpress.com/ #89, Damn were good…
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Sanford up to his usual backscratching techniques…
Jim T.
July 31, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Scott is a successful financial advisor and well respected in Charleston as a real fiscal conservative. I think he’s been Chairman of our County Council for about the last ten years and we haven’t had a millage increase in as long as I can remember.
We’d be lucky if the good ole boys in the legislature chose him instead of electing a big spending Republican from amongst their own. As Scott and Bobby Harrell are very good friends, maybe he can somehow pull it off.
Tired of the good ole boys
July 31, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Scott would be an excellent choice because it would piss off so many of the right wing nutzo Republicans. That he’s smart and qualified are obviously important but secondary to the enjoyment factor of he GOP squirming.
Finley Peter Dunne
July 31, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Sanford knows Scott cant win. He just did it so he can say “I endorsed a black candidate”.
Remember…Sanford does everything for show.
wallace
July 31, 2007 at 4:11 pm
This is another lame brained thing Sanford has done to make himself look good…and the legislature (those good ole’ boys) look bad. And to anyone that is not paying attention, his ploy will succeed.
But think about it…what the heck has Mark Sanford ever done for the people of SC? He has been ineffective in holding down the growth of government and the growth of taxes. He has done nothing to reign in wasteful and inept government…even in his own cabinet agencies. I mean…what the hell has he done other than talk, and bring two pigs into the House of Representatives.
I think most Republicans are about done with Sanford. I know I am. And now he endorses a candidate that has zero chance of winning…and just like his vetoes…he did nothing to influence the process…he just showed up to bitch and moan at the outcome, and spin the events so he looks like David, fighting Goliath. And in reality…he can’t do his job even as well as Democrat Jim Hodges did.
Sanford should run on back to the tanning salon…at least he gets results there.
randy
July 31, 2007 at 4:25 pm
What state did Randy live in when Hodges was Governor? Obviously not this one. Was he here for the Floyd debacle. That is what Hodges can be remembered for.
Jackie Miles
July 31, 2007 at 4:32 pm
What would have been the smart move for Sanford…was to actually endorse the representative that is going to win the election! Imagine the shock and awe of Sanford actually having influence. I mean the man would go from being the treasure apparent to getting no votes in a matter of seconds. Oh, what an opportunity that was missed.
Of course, Jenny still has an endorsement left, perhaps she can pick yet a second loser. With her track record of picking losers, she could give a front page endorsement of Michael Miller as he already has a passing familiarity with the office.
G' Ville boy
July 31, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Jackie,
The rate of government growth under Sanford is HIGHER than under Hodges. The rate of tax hikes is HIGHER under Sanford than under Hodges.
I am a republican…but Hodges atleast TRIED to work with the legislature. Sanford hates them…and refuses to work with them. Hence…Sanford sucks.
Randy
July 31, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Sanford has fought successfully to reduce taxes not nearly as much as he would have liked but way more than if he hadn’t been there. There is no way the small business income tax rate would have been dropped from 7 to 5 percent or the grocery tax would have been eliminated without Sanford’s battles with the General Assembly.
The only reason that government growth is higher lately is that the economy has been booming and tax collections are way up.
Unfortunately most of the Republican legislators aren’t anything close to fiscal conservatives so they have spent way too much of our money. If you want reduced spending, we need Sanford as Governor but have to give him some new legislators – especially in the Senate which is run by former Democrats who switched parties a few years ago.
Robert
July 31, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I understand what you are saying,…but the point is he has been ineefective. Sure, a few things good have happened. Jessie Jackson can stumble into doing the right thing everyonce in a while.
But many in the general assembly are willing to follow a leader…and Sanford has failed them time and time again.
Look…I voted for him twice so u can see it has taken me a long time to figure it out. The point is…he has failed the test of leadership. Now he is doing very well…in the “blame game”.
Randy
July 31, 2007 at 5:24 pm
This SCHotline release is about as objective as the length of the picture of Tim Scott which, with one question, made up the whole release. Is it the Charleston County association about which you are bigoted, or the racist clue in running nothing but the picture? The mention of an Army nurse to head the DHHS job-program further shows that you just don’t get it. The Governor is nominating real people for these key roles, not more Columbia political hacks. We’ve got a Legislature full of Chevis Regals and such; we should let the Executive branch run itself under Legislative appropriations. Congratulations to Tim Scott for a well-earned honor. If he is not elected, the Leg. will anger a powerful constituency.
Original Republican
July 31, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Hey Original…
You guys in the Gov’s office just don’t get it. A nurse with only very small command duty (few employees under her) and no big money experience (it is a 4.6 billion dollars agency), and no Medicaid experience to speak of (and it is the Medicaid agency!). And you think that is a good choice?
Then you trot out a guy that you know CAN”T win…and think you are supposed be considered seriously? And because he is black you consider yourself enlightened or something? That Sanford now speaks for Blacks?
Gees…all that has happened is that Sanford has run out of rich friends to appoint to high positions.
You guys don’t get it…you don’t win points sitting on the sidelines. You have to enter the field of play…not watch from the sidelines, then gripe and moan.
DHHS deserves better than it got. SC citizens deserves better…and don’t be surprised when we take the Mansion back …and put the Dems back in charge. Then, the people of this state will matter.
Alton22
July 31, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Ok, I gotta admit, that until 5 minutes ago I had not seen the Gov’s press conference. Now that I have, let me say two things…
1. When the hell did the Gov start using the royal we? I mean, except for the queen of England…who uses that? We believe this, and we believe that…man, that is whacked.
2. It seems this man Scott’s primary qualification is that he is black, and that he can “right a wrong”. Egad…what in the world has happened? We have a “no government libertarian” referring to himself as “we”, appointing a man to a job that he cannot win, simply because of the color of his skin.
Wow…I gotta have a drink!
PS…they keep referring to Scott as being in the financial service industry. Exactly, what does that mean? Stockbroker? Banker? Janitor? Administrative Assistant? Copy machine cleaner? I mean…has the man actually had a job that is relevant?
Wallace
July 31, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I do not get all of this talk. What happened to Thomas Ravenel?
Whats up?
Zoner
July 31, 2007 at 8:11 pm
The new HHS Director spent the past ten years as a Senior policy analyst at a health care think tank http://www.altarum.org/index.cfm?ID=2 and was a Colonel in the army so its way misleading to refer to her background as only being “a nurse.” And the last guy that Sanford had running HHS cut Medicaid’s growth rate in half from the Hodges days so I’d give Sanford a little slack on the Medicaid topic.
As for Scott, he started and owns one of the top Allstate agencies in the country and has been a conservative star as Chairman of County Council for over a decade. The choice of the legislative insiders? A mid-level accountant who hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself during his legislative career.
It helps to do a little google search before going off on people’s qualifications.
Robert
July 31, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Rep. Leon Howard, D-Richland and chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said Sanford endorsing Scott, in part because he is black, is political, and Sanford knows Scott has little chance of winning.
Rep. Leon Howard, D-Richland and chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said Sanford endorsing Scott, in part because he is black, is political, and Sanford knows Scott has little chance of winning.
Howard said Sanford has appointed too few blacks to cabinet posts. Three of Sanford’s 14 cabinet secretaries are black.
“It’s a little offensive,” Howard said, citing the recent passing over of a qualified black deputy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. “He’s not leading by example.”
Me=== I think the very definition of a “token” would be a man, chosen primarily for the color of his skin, endorsed for a job he can’t win…in order that the Governor look “enlightened” to a national audience. It is the height of arrogance by Mr. Sanford to have though that he can use a free black man in such a fashion and that no one would notice. Blacks in this state deserve better.
BillyE
August 1, 2007 at 5:09 am
does not matter who gets elected, this state will suport white trash and capbale of working people buy issuing food stams and medicare for people that have no real need
Jimmie Mashburn
September 22, 2007 at 7:44 am
We should be careful with ANYTHING Sanford endorses or proposes, He has reportedly attended Bilderberg, so we know he has Big Bosses and is merely a pawn for the New World Order
eegee
June 9, 2008 at 9:06 pm