Not second place in the race for governor. No, what I mean is that he no longer has THE most perfect South Carolina name of anyone running for office this year.
That distinction belongs to another Democrat, Ashley Cooper, who is running for lieutenant governor. His Web site says, “Ashley is proud of his South Carolina roots.” Well, duh. With a name like that, he’d better be.
Whenever I get a chance to meet this guy, my first question of course will be, It that your real name? (Second question would obviously be, Are you the present Earl of Shaftesbury?) You’ll recall that the co-author of Cheaper By the Dozen once wrote a newspaper column in the Charleston paper under the pseudonym “Ashley Cooper,” choosing it because nothing could sound more South Carolinian.
I didn’t know there were any real ones walking around…
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Wow! I used to figure you could have a refrigerator magnet set for the names of the people in whose memory the flowers at Trinity Cathedral were given—names of Charleston and Columbia streets and buildings on the Horseshoe and Womens Quad. Pickens Legare Bull IV
Rutledge Sims Calhoun.
but this really caps them all. Combahee Edisto better watch out!
You must be referring to those low-country South Carolinians. I’d vote for Jackson McManus, but I’m from the Scots-Irish upcountry. Everyone around here knows that true upcountry Carolina names begin with Mc. I wonder how many real South Carolinians are named Jackson McManus.
The Atlanta Braves started to lose their appeal when they traded Brett Butler. What a perfect name for an Atlanta sports team.