Thought y'all might be interested in this release, and the video above:
New DNC Ad Calls on Mark Sanford
to Stop “Playing Politics” With South Carolina Jobs and Recovery
Money
Click Here to See the DNC Ad “Playing Politics” Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTkk9t4sec
Washington, DC – The
Democratic National Committee today released a new television ad entitled
“Playing Politics” that calls on South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford to stop
playing politics with federal job creation and economic recovery funds. The ad,
which will begin airing in Columbia on Monday, outlines the deepening economic
challenges facing South Carolina’s working families. Despite record
unemployment and soaring foreclosures, Governor Sanford is kowtowing to the Rush
Limbaugh-led obstructionist wing of his political party by rejecting $700
million in money to create jobs, improve our health care system and improve our
schools.
As the ad notes, a bipartisan
group of South Carolina leaders – including Democratic Congressman James
Clyburn, Republican Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, and Republican State House
Speaker Bobby Harrell – have criticized Governor Sanford for putting political
posturing ahead of job creation in South Carolina. The ad can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTkk9t4sec
“Mark Sanford needs to stop
playing politics with economic recovery and job creation in South Carolina,”
said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse. “At
a time when his state is suffering from crippling unemployment and more and more
families are losing their homes, South Carolina’s working families cannot afford
for their governor to be distracted by empty political posturing. If Mark
Sanford is worried about his political future, all he needs to do is focus on
working with leaders from both parties who want to use the economic recovery
funds to help create jobs, fix our schools, reform our health care system, make
America energy independent, and lay the foundation for long-term growth in the
21st Century.”
Here's a companion release, from the state Democratic Party:
SC Dems Applaud Sanford Ad
SC- Governor Mark Sanford will be getting a little more airtime on South
Carolina's cable television networks next week, but the media attention won't
necessarily be positive.
The Democratic National Committee announced
today it will begin airing an ad criticizing Sanford for not accepting all of
the funds allocated for South Carolina under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act. The 30-second ad will begin airing on Monday on cable
television in Columbia.
"South Carolina Democrats are very pleased with
the Democratic National Committee's television ad," said South Carolina
Democratic Party Chair Carol Fowler. "It helps us give Mark Sanford the type of
media attention he deserves. Over the last few months, our governor has shown us
that he is more concerned with being in the national spotlight than with the
well-being of South Carolina's working families. They deserve to have their
voices heard and this ad will encourage them to tell Mark Sanford to stop
playing politics."
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Mark Sanford is the worst governor this state has ever had. He hasn’t a clue. He cannot relate to the middle class or poor people at all.
Well, Sanford wanted the attention. And now he’s got it.
If there’s one guy who can turn our state blue in 2012, it’s Mark.
The DNC needs to find another boogey man to keep all eyes off the heinous trifecta of Omama-Reid-Pelosi. Rush kicked them to the curb so they went looking for someone else.
I doubt Sanford will run in’12, but by then we’re going to be so sick of “hopenchange” we’ll vote for Donald Duck just to get the bagman and the hag out of the White House. So who knows?
I have no idea whether Gov. Sanford is “playing politics” or whether he’s determined to stand by whatever understanding he has of economic and philosophic ideological sense of “right.” I do know that he is effectively destroying the lives of those who are most helpless. I just pray that the helpless can survive two more years of him. And I will do what I can to help them. I also know, that while I voted for him the first time he was elected, he had now convinced me that anyone who is not GOP is to be preferred over anyone who is. I don’t like it, but our most helpless (and by the way, those who do not/cannot vote) desperately need help.
Just curious–when will the “helpless” become responsible adults?
I’m so sorry for the 10% of South Carolinian’s who are unemployed in a state that’s in the bottom 5th for average income to start with. Unfortunately it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Tell Governor Sanford to suspend his campaign for president and take care of his fellows.
Marie, If you weren’t smart enough to pick parents who had a passable educational background, and who lived in an area where schools effectively taught at least the basics, then chances are that however willing you are to ‘be responsible’ you do not have the basic skills and competencies needed to rise out of minimum wage/last to come/first to go jobs. Its also likely that you’ll be unable as an adult to access any means to develop those skills. Your children will learn from you. If you have developed a resistant psychosis you are not going to be able to be ‘responsible’, and with the paucity of mental health services we have in this state you’re not going to find any assistance either (except, maybe, in jail). If you are born profoundly retarded or so tied up with cerebral palsy that you can neither move nor speak, your chances of becoming ‘respnsible’ aren’t there. If you are elderly and frail, you may well have been ‘responsible’ all your adult years, but age, frailty, and the economy have taken your abilty to ‘be responsible’ from you. I consider it my “right” as a citizen to do what I can to ensure that these people have lives free of abuse and neglect, and that they are afforded the opportunities to reach whatever their potential might be. In the case of those who lack cultural and scolastic training they need the opportunity to develop those skills, so that their children have a chance. Those who are mentally ill need access to good, consistent mental health care. Those who are retarded need supports for food, clothing, shelter, and general care. Those who are elderly need our compassion and care. If I ignore ‘the least of these’ I ultimately destroy my own humanity.
Karen, Surely you don’t expect the Social Darwinists of the Libertarian world to show empathy and compassion to those less fortunate. Why it wouldn’t be right. All we have to do is let the invisible hand of the free and un-fettered market work its magic and in no time, probably by the end of the next decade, most of the lesser beings will have died off due to lack of medical care and adequet nutrition. The few who remain will be deliriously happy to accept meaningful employment doing those jobs we find disgusting and beneath our station. Why its probably God’s will for after all is it not written that we will always have the poor? Superiority, what a wonderful state of being.
Actually, I don’t expect them to do a darn thing but get in the way. Oh, yes, and in their greed and selfishness to keep on piling emptiness on emptiness until both the stock market and the rest of the world collapses around them. At which point they will, of course, blame it on us “bleeding-heart liberals.”
Very smart of the DNC to target Sanford. The blue wave that tipped Virginia and NC last November is headed across the borders of the Palmetto State; demographic changes make it inevitable but Sanford’s gambit has brought that day much, much closer.
Is the GOP headed for third-party status? and, will a new centrist conservative party emerge to take its place?
Karen (or anyone else who shares such views):
You show a lot of disgust (and possibly worse) for the GOP. So much so that you would not consider voting for anyone with an (R). That is good. Now can you please highlight what differences you see between the GOP and Democrats that would cause you to dislike the former but be complacent towards or even supportive of the latter?
Birch,
Democrats are willing to extend a hand to those in need rather than just “pray for them” to your imaginary sky daddy.
I think the country recognizes which party screwed things up for the last eight years and just aren’t willing to drink any more Republican kool-aid.
Sanford is possibly the worst administrator who ever held the governor’s office. He does virtually nothing. Campbell, Beasley, Hodges–all of these guys were a force, a presence with sleeves rolled up and working with everyone.
Our current governor embodies what’s wrong with the Republican Party today–a party Lincoln would not recognize. Think of what might have happened if Sanford had been elected president at the time of the secession crisis of 1860-61. He probably would have said, “oh well, if that’s what they want. . .” The country would have fractured into warring and competitive states.
Think of how Lincoln was quite willing to use “big government” and federal spending to keep the Union together and push through funding for things such as land-grant colleges, western settlement, the railroads, etc. The Radical Republicans in Congress under Thaddeus Stevens pushed through the three great Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution (13-14-15) that would ultimately transform the country from a slaveholding republic to something that would eventually become much freer for everybody, even if it took 100 years to accomplish and is still being worked out even now. The very first federal civil rights bill was pushed through Congress by the Republicans in 1866.
Would today’s Republicans, with their do-nothing and pro-wealthy mindset, as well as their belief that government can’t really do anything socially, have done what the Republican Party did in the 1860s? That party preserved the Union, without, I might add, the help of the Democrats who, at the time, were hopelessly racist and determined to stymie the federal government in its attempt to bring a modicum of justice to African Americans.
As I read the conservatives who write on this blog, I am overwhelmed with the sense that they just don’t know American history, and that they don’t read.
Less Rush Limbaugh, and more scholarly reading. Start with Blackmon’s most recent (2008) book, “Slavery by another name.” Then you’ll understand better what Karen McLeod was talking about ut supra.
Birch,
Though I consider myself a social liberal, I have on several occasions voted for Republicans for President, though not Bush, Governor, U.S. Senator, and state Senator. I’m not sure I’ll be doing it in the future unless the GOP can give up the socially divisive issues and become part of the solution. I will not support a party that uses hate, race baiting, and bigotry to divide and conquer.
Thanks for the response, WWB.
Correct me if I misunderstand you. What you are saying is that the big distinction for you between the Rs and the Ds is that the GOP plays on socially divisive issues. I certainly can agree with this statement. The Republican stance on immigration and homosexuality are big turn offs for me.
If you don’t mind, I would love for you to flesh out with specifics your statements of the Republican Party using “hate, race baiting, and bigotry.”
Good post.
Carol Fowler needs to buy advertising space on the Wall Street Journal’s website to air the video. Forget about the print edition; the printed edition can’t do videos. If the SC Democrats put together an ad that looks good in print and states the facts, then advertise in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal (full page ad).
The Wall Street club doesn’t live in South Carolina or read The State.
The DNC ad needs to air on Fox News. Will they air it? I don’t think so; there are some things that money can’t buy.
But Mark Sanford needs to be exposed for what he is not to the nation.
I don’t think that Mark Sanford is willing to undergo the scrutiny of a microscope or a colonoscopy on his governmental, professional and personal life just to be President of the United States.
If I recall correctly, in an interview with The State newspaper (Columbia, SC) about his first term as governor, Sanford expressed regrets about the time demands of governing South Carolina. He said that he would rather be huntin’ and fishin’ with his four boys on the family plantation; Oops! Call it a “family farm”.
Should Sanford against all probabilities win the White House in 2012, the oldest of his boys should be out on his own starting a career, the next is attending college, then there is the teenager, and the youngest, the tweener; both in their formative years.
Perhaps he got inspired by Barack Obama raising their children in the White House and thinks that he can do the same. But if he doesn’t like the time demands of governing a small state like South Carolina, why does he think that he has the time to govern the United States of America?
I heard on the radio today that the Soviet Union is considering using Cuba as a fueling station for their long range bombers!
Just think about this: only six hundred sixty-nine days to leadership in South Carolina. Note that I did not say “new leadership” because Sanford never assumed a leadership role.
I’m just glad Carol Fowler doesn’t play politics. I know she deserves her post as chaitwomean, what with all that waiting on Don’s wife to die and playing the good secretary. Seizing the opportunity to move in on Don Fowler, and thus the position of Dem leader required a shrewdness I haven’t often seen. So ya’ll get on board with Carol, she’s a real class act.
chairwoman…sorry
Imagine your chief qualification for a job is an oral skill not associated with speaking. That sounds more like the world’s oldest profession than it does the leader of a political party. Most Dems only have to kiss Don’s ring on their way to political power.
Birch, It’s not the GOP I am so disgusted with, per se. It’s the people they have fielded lately–for example, Mark Sanford, George Bush, and those they have allowed to speak for them, eg. Rush Limbaugh. These people have made it clear by word and action that they have no concern for anyone who might be unable to be independent all the time. They seem unaware that brain injury or fever, or even economic insanity might put them in the same boat. And no one, however wealthy or well connected can guarantee that he or she will not suddenly be rendered dependent. That’s not to say that there are no rotten democrats. There are plenty out there. I’ll bet that there are honest and honorable republicans, too. But the Republican party seems to be proud to be the Party of Greed right now; a party unable to exhibit any compassion. That’s why I’m down on that party, by name, as opposed to simply disliking individual scoundrels of both parties.
I will not support a party that uses hate, race baiting, and bigotry to divide and conquer.
I take it, then, Birch, that you can’t support the Democrats. They play the race card on every issue, and the last three or four days they’ve done nothing but preach hate about Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and her children.
The Democrats have been dividing us ethnically to their own benefit for the last 50 years. I sincerely hope you’ve noticed.
I will not support a party that uses hate, race baiting, and bigotry to divide and conquer.
I take it, then, Birch, that you can’t support the Democrats.
Aaahhh! PM, I did not write those words! And you are right. I absolutely cannot and would not support the Democratic Party in any way.
I did want to make a statement or pose a question after reading the other commenters views of the differences between the GOP and the Democrats:
I simply cannot grasp how people can see one party as evil and corrupt and self-interested and not see those same traits in the other party. The Democrats and Republicans operate in the same manner in our political climate today. Either they are both corrupt or neither is.
I think this is currently manifesting itself in the view that the Republican Party is greedy. But I just cannot see a way in which members of the Party of Greed are gaining more or less in the way of money or political power than their counterparts in the Party of Compassion.
By all means agree or disagree with the policies of one or both parties. But can we please drop this idea that the two parties are otherwise different?
For the record, I despise both parties and I think their politics are ruining this country. I’m tired of it. I wish other people were tired of it too to the extent they would give up their support for both.
What a collection of flame mouths collect here to hate someone, something, some idea or just vent their personal spleen of self hatred of America disguised as benevolent humanitarianism.
Remember Hitler was a democratically elected radical socialist, re National Socialism, NAZI. Obama Mugabe is black nationalist, anti American.
In socialistic communistic utopian amoral ideologies, the question is who is in power, if the reluctant masses cannot be re educated, and then the politicos decide which groups, ethnics, sexes, ages, undesireables, and those we dont like you still living categories go to the front of the line in the gas chambers?
Trust in obama mugabe to save indo european america. HA HA.
Are ya’ll ever going to do a story on the Comptroller General’s efforts to get local governments to post expenditures on the Internet?
Politics has always been a raucous and often sordid affair. In this country, it’s probably cleaner than in most, if Transparency International is to be believed. We are, as I recall, only 13th on a governmental corruption index that places most of the the former Soviet Bloc, China, and much of the Third World toward the bottom. A FreedomHouse index of anywhere from 1,1 to 3,3 correlates strongly with the upper half of governments on the TI’s corruption index. The more democracy, the less corrupt the government.
So, take heart. It could be much worse. You could be living in Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Burma, or Turkmenistan where dictatorship marches hand-in-hand with theft on a breathtakingly national scale by the all-powerful elite from the people in whose name they rule.
My beef with the Republicans is not that they are evil and corrupt (I actually think they might fare better than the Democrats on these indices), but that their ideology is an utter failure and their religious foundation is, quite simply, completely false.
I support the Democrats because they are secular and are willing to use the power of government to improve people’s lives and expand the range of their personal freedom.
I want a federal government that provides a generous social safety net, manages health care on a national scale, benignly directs the economy from its sovereign heights, protects the rights of women to choose and gays to marry and not be discriminated against in any way, shape, or form.
As a public school educator, I want educational institutions that teach evolution and remain neutral in matters of religion. I would like to see our schools embrace our gay kids instead of forcing them into the closet because the vocal fundies in the community think them to be an abomination in the sight of Allah.
Every high school in this state should have a Gay-Straight Alliance, provide students contraceptives and birth-control counseling, and teach students to dialogue across their differences and accept and promote diversity in our pluralistic society. There should be a robust program of frank sex education with the object of keeping down the pregnancy rate. Every high school should have a free nursery to help female students who would otherwise drop out of school, not continue their education, and then end up on public assistance while their kids are haphazardly raised and end up being problems to society.
The less religion there is in society, the healthier the social indices. The more religion there is, the greater the rate of ignorance, poverty, poor health, illegitimate births, infant mortality, and wife-beating.
Contrast Vermont–with one of the highest rates of atheism in the country–with S.C., which has one of the highest church attendance rates.
Religion just doesn’t seem to do us much good, now does it?
At least James Clyburn is admitting that he sees all this so-called “stimulus” pork spending as being targeted to enrich blacks, and any efforts to stop the wealth transfers is, in his words, “racist”.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, James Carville told a press conference that he wanted President Bush to fail. He repeated it several times.
Lee,
You’re a man of the past! Americans are tired of being bullied by no-nothing preachers and lectured to by middle-aged, pot-bellied, angry white men like you who feel entitled to rule.
Get with the program! You lost and if you maintain your current position, you will continue to lose. The Republicans are staring oblivion in the face.
This country is decisively shifting to the left. We know we have to help ourselves and the government of the people–not just the privileged few–will be the instrumentality of our success.
The way y’all spend money, Rich, everyone is staring oblivion in the face.
Rich, you and all socialists are retrograde.
Socialism is an obsolete reactionary attempt to turn back the clock of free markets, individual liberty, and limited government under democratic processes.
Socialism is anti-intellectual. Socialists can’t convince any educated person anymore, so they concentrate on children and illiterates, dreaming of the day when they can silence intellectual debate and bury their critics in shallow graves.
Good politics makes good country
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Christena
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