This just in (OK, so it was an hour ago) from Tyler Jones on behalf of the House Democrats:
House Democrats Elect Todd Rutherford New Minority Leader
Columbia, SC – Members of the House Democratic Caucus met on Tuesday and elected Rep. Todd Rutherford to be its new leader. Former Minority Leader Rep. Harry Ott announced on Saturday he would not be seeking re-election to the leadership post.
Newly-elected Minority Leader Rep. Rutherford released the following statement in response to his election:
“I am honored to be chosen by my colleagues to lead House Democrats in a new, and hopefully more successful direction. I want to personally thank Representative Harry Ott for his many years of service to this caucus. Rep. Ott has done an outstanding job as our leader and will remain an integral part of our decision making process. I look forward to getting down to work to expand our numbers and elect more Democrats to the House.”
House Democrats also elected Reps. Walt McLeod as Assistant Minority Leader, James Smith as Deputy Leader, Laurie Funderburk as Treasurer, David Weeks as Parliamentarian, and Kenneth Hodges as Chaplain.
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Headline writers across the state will undoubtedly miss Harry Ott. First Ard, now this… Why don’t more people with extremely short names run for office?
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This may or may not rise to the level of being remarkable, but I’ll remark on it anyway…
On a previous thread, I was mentioning Nathan Ballentine’s Twitter feed, and went to look at it to get the address right, and the most recent thing on it was his reTweet of the Tweet from the House Democrats saying “Congratulations to our new leader, Rep. Todd Rutherford.”
No addenda. No snarky or cutting remarks. Just passing it on. (And Nathan’s feed is not one of those with the disclaimer that “reTweets do not constitute endorsement.”) Nathan was just sharing.
That shouldn’t be remarkable, but in today’s hyperpartisan environment, it sort of is. But Nathan’s like that. A very civil guy.
I took your advice. I was already following following Ballentine. I did add peeler though.