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DeMint Statement on DNC's Negative Ads in South Carolina

March 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments

DeMint Statement on DNC’s Negative Ads in South Carolina

Columbia, S.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement in response to the Democratic National Committee’s decision to inundate SC airwaves with negative ads attacking our Governor Mark Sanford.

“After years of losing elections here, the DNC should know better than anyone that spending lots of money to try and brainwash SC voters with misleading ads will not work.  South Carolinians are worried about the economy and their jobs but they have little faith in Nancy Pelosi’s desire to spend our way back to economic success.  Instead of wasting George Soros’ fortune bashing conservatives like Mark Sanford who are right to question further deficit spending, maybe the DNC should focus on some other state where they have more friends.” 

Source: us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com

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  1. anonymous says:
    March 13, 2009 at 19:54

    Complete text of letter to Gov. Mark Sanford signed by 52 state mayors:

    Dear Governor Sanford and Members of the South Carolina General Assembly:

    As you are well aware, we are facing an economic crisis in South Carolina as dark as we have seen in decades. Our state’s unemployment rate for January 2009, released this week, stood at 10.4%, second highest in the entire United States and the highest in nearly 26 years. Nearly 43,000 of our fellow South Carolinians lost their jobs in January, and all told, there were nearly 228,000 people without work in our state. There is no reason to believe those numbers have improved since January. In fact, our state’s Board of Economic Advisors has warned that the unemployment rate could rise to as high as 14% by summer.

    The numbers are grim, but as mayors who lead South Carolina cities and towns, we see the human-scale impact of these statistics every day. We know the terrible cost of this economic downturn on our fellow citizens. Every day, we talk to people in our communities who have lost work to the latest layoff or downsizing, who struggle with impossible choices like buying either groceries or prescriptions for their children, or whether to pay the rising health insurance premium or this month’s rent or mortgage payment. The people represented in the unemployment statistics are not abstractions, they are our neighbors, and they are hurting.

    To deal with this crisis, last month Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), designed to stabilize the economy and to preserve and create jobs, help the unemployed, invest in our nation’s infrastructure and stabilize state and local government budgets to avoid further layoffs and cuts in vital services.

    This week, Governor Sanford sent the General Assembly a letter indicating that he will ask President Obama for a waiver from spending a substantial portion of the funds the way Congress intended, but rather to use it to retire state debt. If President Obama does not grant the waiver, Governor Sanford says he will reject bringing these badly needed funds to South Carolina, and the dollars that our citizens pay in taxes to the federal government will be sent to the other states.

    To reject this funding will mean drastic cuts in services to our citizens and be tragic to South Carolinians who badly need help in this time of crisis. We urge Governor Sanford to reconsider his position.

    If Governor Sanford does not reconsider, we urge the General Assembly to override the Governor’s decision to reject the funds and apply them to help our state achieve the goals of the ARRA. This would include overriding the Governor’s position that he will reject funding for an extension of unemployment benefits to part-time workers who are searching for full-time work. The teachers, police officers, parole officers, firefighters and sanitation workers who serve in our communities and whose jobs are threatened by budget cuts deserve nothing less. The citizens in our communities who those wonderful employees serve should not have those services cut when the means exist to prevent it.

    Furthermore, it is a matter of the highest urgency that our state government acts immediately to get the ARRA into our economy as fast as possible to help as many people as possible and to stop the downward economic spiral. May states have appointed a “stimulus czar” or other official to help efficiently utilize the funds, ensure accountability for them and to maximize their state’s competitiveness when it comes to seeking discretionary funding for their states. We urge Governor Sanford to appoint an official whose job will be to challenge state agencies responsible for this funding to spend it as quickly and as wisely as possible so that it gets into the cities and towns and communities all across South Carolina and begins to relieve suffering caused by the economic distress.

    As mayors, we know that people don’t eat in the long run, they eat every day. We are Republicans, Democrats and independents and our letter has little to do with our political ideology or whether we feel the stimulus package is good national public policy or not. We are writing as citizens of this great state, who as mayors, are focused on our towns and cities, but we speak for the needs of all South Carolinians, whether in our cities or not. The 228,000 South Carolinians who are out of work and the hundreds of thousands more whose jobs, homes and families are threatened by this economic crisis live in our communities, they are our neighbors, and they rightly expect leadership from us in this time of crisis. The ARRA provides our fellow citizens with the promise of jobs and relief from the pain of this terrible economic downturn. We urge you to seize the opportunity presented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help reverse the downward spiral in our economy and to protect the vital services our state and local governments provide to our citizens.

    Sincerely,

    Joseph P. Riley

    Mayor, City of Charleston

    O.L. “Buddy” Johnson, Jr.

    Mayor, Town of Little Mountain

    Harold Thompson

    Mayor, City of Union

    Kevin L. Johnson

    Mayor, City of Manning

    Nancy G. Brigman

    Mayor, Town of Latta

    Bobby Brock

    Mayor, Town of Blenheim

    Thomas R. Rivers

    Mayor, Town of Williston

    Keith Bailey

    Mayor, Town of Blythewood

    Jeffrey Graham

    Mayor, City of Camden

    Minnie Blackwell

    Mayor, City of Hanahan

    Steve Carver,

    Mayor, Town of Wagener

    Derek A. Hodgin

    Mayor, City of Westminster

    Elise Partin

    Mayor, City of Cayce

    William Barnet, III

    Mayor, City of Spartanburg

    Charlene N. Herring

    Mayor, Town of Ridgeway

    Don Godbey

    Mayor, City of Mauldin

    Bob Coble

    Mayor, City of Columbia

    Moses L. Cohen, Jr.

    Mayor, Town of Fairfax

    Joseph McElveen

    Mayor, City of Sumter

    Sallie Peake

    Mayor, City of Wellford

    Welborn Adams

    Mayor, City of Greenwood

    Carl B. Beckmann, Jr.

    Mayor, City of Folly Beach

    Wright Gaines

    Mayor, City of Inman

    Ailene D. Ashe

    Mayor, Town of Lockhart

    Thomas H. Alexander

    Mayor, City of Bishopville

    Nathan R. Salley, Sr.

    Mayor, Town of Salley

    Terence Roberts

    Mayor, City of Anderson

    Alton McCollum

    Mayor, City of Bamberg

    Rob Taylor

    Mayor, Town of Aynor

    Doug Echols

    Mayor, City of Rock Hill

    Randy Randall

    Mayor, City of Clinton

    Bronco Bostick

    Mayor, City of Hardeeville

    Burley L. Lyons

    Mayor, Town of Edisto Beach

    R. Keith Summey

    Mayor, City of North Charleston

    Billy Keyserling

    Mayor, City of Beaufort

    Carol E. Burdette

    Mayor, Town of Pendleton

    Rick Danner

    Mayor, City of Greer

    Stephen J. Wukela

    Mayor, City of Florence

    Frank McMulty

    Mayor, Town of Seabrook Island

    Johnnie Waller

    Mayor, Town of Calhoun Falls

    Anne Johnston

    Mayor, Town of St. George

    Peggy Paxton

    Mayor, Town of West Pelzer

    Donnie D. Grice

    Mayor, City of Clover

    Roy Smith, Jr.

    Mayor, Town of McCormick

    David Owens

    Mayor, City of Pickens

    Charles Ackerman

    Mayor, Town of Harleyville

    Tony Watkins

    Mayor, City of Darlington

    Larry Abernathy

    Mayor, City of Clemson

    Tom Alexander

    Mayor, City of Bishopville

    J. Edward Lee, Ph.D.

    Mayor, City of York

    Arvest M. Turner

    Mayor, Town of Ninety Six

    Paul Miller

    Mayor, City of Orangeburg

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