Be sure to check tomorrow’s op-ed page for Katon Dawson’s indignant response to Friday’s editorial. Here’s a taste:
The Governor and Republican legislators have made South Carolina a better place to live, work and raise a family. Not surprisingly, leaders and lawmakers across the country have taken notice of Governor Sanford’s leadership -– as they have taken notice of other great leaders in South Carolina like our U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint and the entire Republican team in Columbia.
Katon does his best, as a good party chairman should, to paint a picture of Republicans in South Carolina as one big family, with the gov and GOP lawmakers pulling in the same direction and things like that. And he does it as well as anyone might. Be sure to check it out.
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The Governor and Republican legislators have made South Carolina a better place to live, work and raise a family.
-Katon Dawson
We have the highest unemployment rates in the nation, one of the highest murder rates. We rank very low in life expectancy, but high in traffic deaths. Our roads are terrible. Public transportation is all but non-existent. In virtually every measure of quality of life SC citizens are at the bottom. So Mr. Dawson, please explain how the GOP controlled government has been so successful.
The Governor and Republican legislature has done so much for the people of South Carolina in the past few years, and to top it off, they now want to relieve the people of South Carolina from the obligation (right) of having to choose their elected officials required by our constitution. What else can we expect from a governor who carries two piglets to the statehouse and feels he is obligated to conduct state business across our border. Additionally, the legislature is showing a blind eye to the growing concern of illegal immigrants throughout our state.
Yeah Bud. On the other hand, Governor Jim Hodges and democrat state senate leaders like John Land have really turned this state around whenever they’ve been in charge.
Bud, please. I readily admit there isn’t much to defend about Sanford in terms of significant accomplishment. I also agree that this Katon fellow should hush. But for you to make out like the problems we face in South Carolina have all been brought on by republican leadership is a little silly, isn’t it? Besides, I suggest that an equally valid arguement can be made that a major reason Sanford hasn’t done much has been because of the obstructionist opposition party in the state legislature.
That would be your guys, wouldn’t it? David
And again, I am NOT denying that republicans in the state legislature have largely been pimples on the a$$ of progress…they clearly have.
I simply point out that they’ve had help from your guys and that your guys haven’t done much either when they’ve had the chance. Dave
Look, Katon is a salesman. A parrot. And he is good at that. But for goodness sake, please don’t buy into that rot.
The Republican Party here in SC is not red. It is convenient…it is a collection of people held together by their dislike for blacks and their desire to get elected and hold power. Under Katon and Sanford’s leadership the party has become a party of whores, all looking for votes and power…and Katon and Sanford stood there, arms open wide, accepting them into the party.
The national GOP has shown no restraint, and only unbridled desire born of greed. My party, the SC GOP, is only a few years behind in it demonstration of the same. Katon is looking to be National GOP Chairman, and Mark Sanford is about to retire with 6 million is money stashed in campaign and nonprofit accounts.
Yep, those two have done ok…and the rest of us suffer. It seems that is the republican way.
Interestingly, no one commenting is an elected official responsible for anything other than arousing one’s self in the morning ( or afternoon ).
Dave, full disclosure here. I voted for Sanford over Hodges. I found Hodges reprehensible. He’s definitely not my guy.
Clif, including you.
Isn’t that sort of a given on a blog? I’m just sayin. David
“We have the highest unemployment rates in the nation, one of the highest murder rates. We rank very low in life expectancy, but high in traffic deaths. Our roads are terrible. Public transportation is all but non-existent. In virtually every measure of quality of life SC citizens are at the bottom.
– Bud
Were any of these things not true during Jim Hodges’ administration?
Could the traffic deaths and murder rate be one reason for our low life expectancy?
I have one aunt who’s 95 and another who saw her 100th birthday before she died. Should Sanford get a medal?
Is the governor responsible for improving our diet and exercise habits?
Dang it, Bud, the government doesn’t make us who we are. Hopefully, it allows us to be who we want to be. Life is what we make it.
I read Dawson’s piece in today’s State and frankly that was about as much nonsense as is possible from someone who’s supposed to be a professional. He gives credit to Sanford for health savings accounts for state employees. Those pre-dated Sanford by many years so I’m not sure what he’s referring to. All these jobs that supposedly have been created certainly haven’t helped to reduce the state’s unemployment rate which currently ranks near the top nationally. Most of the job creation has been in the low-paying service sector. Many folks need a second job just to provide for their families in a state that ranks low in wages. Far from being a mecca for it’s citizens South Carolina continues to lag behind the rest of the country in all the basic quality of life measures. Mr. Dawson should come clean with us and just admit that the conservative policies of the GOP have failed to deliver what they continuously promise.
I have just one question. If S.C. is so backwards and such a terrible place to live then why is it such a yankee magnet?
> then why is it such a yankee magnet?
The weather… the beaches… the cost of housing… the friendly people… the churches…
and the opportunity to demonstrate the right way to do things to people who still use the term “yankees” in a non-baseball related context.
I mean why would you want to match the way they do things “up north” in terms of education or high tech job creation? Better to do things as they have always been done and hope for a different result.
“Dave, full disclosure here. I voted for Sanford over Hodges. I found Hodges reprehensible. He’s definitely not my guy.”
– bud
Bud, I’m sorry about my post above. I didn’t see this post of yours about Sanford and Hodges.
This would also be a good place to note that you and I shared one movie in our top five lists, even if you did “hate to admit” agreeing with me somewhere else.
Why can’t we all just get along?