Sanford's audacity of 'nope'

[Are_grits_groceries]

As I questioned Gov. Mark Sanford's pending decision not to take the economic recovery funds offered to the Palmetto State last month, Rep. Ted Vick and I begged him to leave his multi-million dollar Sullivan's Island home, and we asked him to look around the rural parts of South Carolina where federal aid is needed.

Apparently he did not take our advice, opting instead to base his decision on what will get him closer to his party's presidential nomination and endear him in the hearts of the Cato and Goldwater institutes.

Since being elected to Congress in 1994, Mark Sanford has made a political career out of saying "no." He was nicknamed "Dr. No" by some of his colleagues in Washington and he carried that same mentality with him to the Governor's Mansion in Columbia.

Since his election in 2002, South Carolina's economy has tanked. For nearly that entire time, the former Goldman Sachs employee who claims to know so much about economics has presided over a state that has hovered at 48th and 49th in the nation's employment statistics.

During this same time we have watched our state's commerce chiefs come and go.

As more and more South Carolinians find themselves out of work, employers coming to the Southeast continue to ignore South Carolina for our friends in Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama, and just last year, Volks-wagen passed on us and went to Chattanooga.
http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/mar/19/sanfords_audacity_nope75705/

Sanford is an loopbat...

[burythehatchet]

1. Goldman Sachs employee???? That I did not know, and it is all anyone needs to know.

A former Goldman Sachs employee in "public service"

:rofl:

[TheCoxwain]

2. So is NJ Governer Jon Corzine ...

What is your point?

[burythehatchet]

5. My point is that Goldman Sachs is the epicenter of all that sucks. Here are some others:

Robert Rubin

Jim Cramer

Henry Paulson

Stephen Friedman

Josh Bolten

If Jim Corzine is a good guy, great!

Goldman Sachs = AIG's biggest counterparty
Goldman Sachs = $20,000,000,000 recipient of taxpayer money through AIG
Goldman Sachs = $25,000,000,000 recipient of bailout funds.

[napi21]

3. I think Sanfod is depending on the State legislature to overrule

him, so he can have it both ways. He said NO, but the State got the money anyway! He thinnks this will give him the upperhand in 2012!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. The guy that wrote this is 22 years old and a SC state Representative!!