Today Vincent Sheheen was endorsed by 40 members of the Legislature, which is impressive. I mean, that doesn’t leave a whole lot of Democrats…
If he’s got this kind of juice with the party’s elected leaders, could he be well on his way to sewing this thing up? I don’t know. But here are the lawmakers endorsing him today:
Rep. Carl Anderson (Georgetown & Williamsburg Counties No. 103)
Rep. Paul Agnew (Abbeville & Anderson Counties No. 11)
Rep. Mike Anthony (Spartanburg & Union Counties No. 42)
Rep. Jimmy Bales (Richland County No. 80)
Rep. Jim Battle (Marion County No. 57)
Rep. Bill Bowers (Colleton & Hampton Counties No. 120)
Rep. Lester Branham (Florence County No. 61)
Rep. Grady Brown (Lee & Sumter Counties No. 50)
Rep. Robert Brown (Charleston & Colleton Counties No. 116)
Rep. Bill Clyburn (Aiken & Edgefield Counties No. 82)
Rep. Laurie Funderburk (Kershaw County No. 52)
Rep. Chris Hart (Richland County No. 73)
Rep. Cathy Harvin (Clarendon & Williamsburg County No. 64)
Rep. Joe Jefferson (Berkeley County No. 102)
Rep. John King (York County No. 49)
Rep. Herb Kirsh (York County No. 47)
Rep. Patsy Knight (Dorchester County No. 97)
Rep. David Mack (Charleston County No. 109)
Rep. Walt McLeod (Newberry & Lexington Counties No. 40)
Rep. Vida Miller (Charleston & Georgetown Counties No. 108)
Rep. Jimmy Neal (Lancaster County No. 44)
Rep. Denny Neilson (Darlington & Chesterfield Counties No. 56)
Rep. Harry Ott (Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg Counties No. 93)
Rep. Anne Parks (Greenwood & McCormick Counties No. 12)
Rep. Todd Rutherford (Richland County No. 74)
Rep. James Smith (Richland County No. 72)
Rep. Leon Stavrinakis (Charleston County No. 119)
Rep. Ted Vick (Chesterfield County No. 53)
Rep. Robert Williams (Darlington & Florence Counties No. 62)Sen. Creighton Coleman (Fairfield, Union, York, Chester Counties No. 17)
Sen. Dick Elliott (Horry, Dillon, Marion & Marlboro Counties No. 28)
Sen. Brad Hutto (Orangeburg, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell Counties No. 40)
Sen. John Land (Clarendon, Calhoun, Florence & Sumter Counties No. 36)
Sen. Phil Leventis (Sumter & Lee Counties No. 35)
Sen. Joel Lourie (Richland & Kershaw Counties No. 22)
Sen. Yancey McGill (Williamsburg, Florence, Horry, Georgetown Counties No. 32)
Sen. Floyd Nicholson (Abbeville, Greenwood & Laurens Counties No. 10)
Sen. Clementa Pinckney (Chas, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton & Jasper Counties No. 45)
Sen. Glenn Reese (Spartanburg County No. 11)
Having just said what I said, I must take some of it back. I didn’t see some fairly key Democrats from the House: Reps. Joe Neal, Gilda Cobb-Hunter and Doug Jennings (not really! see comment below), just off the top of my head. Later, I’ll try to go through the list more systematically; I’ve got to run right now.
Still, this is an impressive list.
Unfortunately, in this sorry excuse for a state, the Democrats, even when they have a far superior candidate than the Republicans, end up being the Washington Generals on Election Day.
And the Generals haven’t beaten the Globetrotters since 1971.
And it will probably be another 39 years before we elect a Democrat, which is sad given we have a pathetic, worthless loser for a governor (R), and the House (R) and Senate (R) would rather outlaw US currency and debate the 9th and 10th Amendments than actually get anything done. I can guarantee you that a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion wouldn’t veto that cigarette tax hike. That is reason alone to vote for the D.
Laurin Manning of the Sheheen campaign — y’all know Laurin — informs me that Doug Jennings DID endorse Sen. Sheheen today, and was supposed to me on the list.
So consider him added. That still leaves the number at 40. There were only 39 on the original list. Laurin miscounted, and I didn’t check…
Thanks for calling out my math skills (or lack thereof), Brad! Haha!
Uncle Danny–
I am a true blue Democrat, but the federal government, instead of doing anything to address the current problems, today passed something condemning the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks–what, 90 years ago?
Now that they’ve passed that vital piece of legislation, maybe they can pass health care. But I doubt it.
It seems to me, that if Vince really was the “chosen little golden boy” that he thinks he is, there wouldn’t be such a conspicuous absence of SOLID support from the Black Caucus after yesterday’s round of endorsements. Out of the thirty members of the Black Caucus that are in the House, including Cathy Harvin and Tim Scott, I count ten endorsements, including Cathy Harvin’s. Out of the nineteen DemocratIC members of the Senate, only nine are black, obviously including Robert Ford, but Vince only got one endorsement from them.
No one is going to waste an endorsement on Robert Ford, and Jim Rex’s candidacy certainly doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Does the lack of greater support from members of the Black Caucus mean that they could, or will, endorse Dwight? I know Ken Kennedy has never been wild about Vince running, but I don’t know if others have similar reservations.
Or am I reading too much into this whole thing? When will the new fundraising numbers be released?
If Laurin is involved in Sheheen’s campaign, you can bet his odds of winning increased by several points.
Although we are not always in agreement, she is someone I highly respect and value her opinions on issues of the day.