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News The Daily Stuff A South Carolina Pach fight
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28 March 2011
It wasn't supposed to be like this
It wasn't so long ago, during the campaign primary season, that Nikki Haley was the featured debutante at the Tea Party Ball. And there was much rejoicing when on June 22nd, she became the Republican nominee for Governor of South Carolina.
Transparency was the buzzword and the anti-establishment platform vaulted Nikki into a level of popularity that, when it comes to Republican women in politics, only Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann overshadow her.
Fast forward three months and what do we have -
The Governor's office repeatedly being chastised by numerous groups for apparent transparency issues
A public squabble with SC State Treasurer Curtis Loftis in regards to "back-room" actions with Budget & Control Board members
An apparent partnership with State Senate Head RINO Hugh Leatherman to get votes Haley needs on various legislation
A serious lack of response to supporters from County GOP Chairs to door-to-door volunteers
A Town Hall tour that seems more designed to image damage control and rebuilding popularity than any substantive voter connection
The removal of Darla Moore to prevent her from creating another state funded money pit (a good thing) and replacing her with a trial lawyer (a bad thing)
As we've covered already, much of the blame is directed at Tim Pearson, Governor Haley's Chief of Staff and Washington, D. C. liason. Pearson has irked more than a few around the state including Curtis Loftis. In a recent note to Loftis responding to criticism of "back-room meetings", Pearson told Curtis the governor was holding many budget meetings and “being that (Loftis) is not a relevant player in those issues, Treasurer Loftis will not be invited to attend.” Keep in mind that Treasurer Loftis is one of the five members of the South Carolina Budget & Control Board. Not to mention he's twice Pearson's age and the note was a serious error in regards to respect. Not surprising.
News came out the last couple of days that Tim Pearson "sicced" SLED on blog and news aggregator Jeffrey Sewell of SCHotline.com in response to an email Sewell sent him saying "I can be helpful and or your worst nightmare." Quite a serious threat?
When you put power in the hands of those like Tim Pearson, a 20-something that's seemingly committed to pushing Nikki Haley into the national spotlight, you're asking the children to run the daycare. Maturity is vastly underrated when it comes to those in the political arena. There are far too many in positions of influence and power in state and federal politics.
What Nikki Haley needs right now is sound, mature advice and support from those that are actually interested in what's best for the citizens of South Carolina instead of a "pants-on-the-ground" era kid promoting his own stature. We don't need a Governor's Chief of Staff trying to "flex his muscle" by sending SLED investigators out on a nonsense call to threaten a blogger.
While Nikki campaigned as an outsider, thus far it doesn't seem to be the case. Getting a pack of "Young Duds" to bully and threaten concerned citizens and other office holders is a tactic of the establishment Governor Haley professed disliking so much when campaigning.
Governor Haley, if you're really interested on repairing the image and getting back to the popularity level of the campaign season, start by demoting the Diaper Dandy in your Chief of Staff's office and putting in someone that has the maturity to not only know what South Carolina needs but to go about doing it in a way that doesn't reek of playground tactics.
Now, Tim? Do I need to prepare a statement for SLED?
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-Strengthen our USD
-No Inflation
-Balance the Budget
-No Mandated Healthcare
-Creates MANY JOBS
-New Crop Industries
-Free Market
-Very Pro Life
-No Bailout
-No Patriot Act
-Stays out of foreign DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, but contract/trade with all
-No Unjustified War with no objectives
-Brings our Troops Home after over 10 YEARS OF FIGHTING!!!!
The US could have fought WWII twice in 10 Years!
TROOPS HOME NOW!
Thank You
Mr. Ron Paul 2012
She has ditched her friends like Loftis and others for these kids that have no real life judgment. They see everything as political and not governmental.
There is, unfortunately, a dearth of good, moral people who are solid citizens willing to take government jobs for a term or two due to the fact that they are SOLID CITIZENS who work hard and concentrate on raising their families and providing for them. The more that the government has made that hard to do with increasing tax and legal burdens, the fewer there are who are willing to step in and take certain jobs for a short time. If we were a less rigid and less controlled state economically, people would not feel so locked into certain jobs and would feel freer to move from job to job for the betterment of themselves and society and in response to a truly free labor marketplace.
What Nikki wound up with was a choice between trainable newbies or experienced political players. She's definitely employed plenty of both but the newbies are ruling the roost.
I'm not sure we'll be worried about this in a few months. I hope the "break-in" period will be over and the lines of communication with the grass roots reestablished. Nikki has communicated to me recently that she expects the first year to be the toughest mainly due to the economy and the budget.
I hope she will find out who her friends really are and, as long as she fights a principled fight against the entrenched forces of corruption in the General Assembly, we will, as a grass roots movement, I'm sure, welcome her back with open arms.
We have our doubts now and owe it to ourselves and our principles to have them and to remain ever vigilant. We have nothing to apologize for in that regard. We will not be respected nor listened to if we do anything less. Nikki, I'm sure, understands that and once we have on-the-record voting, we may just see that it is a very quick game changer in the arena of principled politics vs. old school corruption. The RINOs can't charge anymore if we chain them down with recorded votes and transparency.
In the meantime, we have Curtis Loftis who is, I sincerely believe, truly concerned and expressing his doubts about the entire process and structure. He needs to be fully included, if, for no other reason, to have a prominent voice willing to call a spade a spade. His appeals are the appeals of the common working man and we want change for the better and ASAP.
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