Just received this mea culpa from Tom Davis, regarding the infamous fund-raising letter for ReformSC:
It was a big mistake…
… for me not to have included a reference to restructuring in that email piece
I sent out a few weeks ago for Reform SC. Not sure what else to say. I made a
mistake.
This reminds me of something Tom had said to me about this before, and which Chad Walldorf mentioned again at lunch yesterday (the post about which was probably the impetus for Tom’s e-mail): Tom wrote that letter in a huge hurry during preparations to go on an ecodevo trip to China. Make of that what you will.
Whatever my suspicions of the governor, his anti-government fraternity brothers, and such, I remain convinced that Tom means well. But no matter how sincere he and Chad are, if the money behind ReformSC is about less government, without regard to better government, it will bear watching.