From today’s campaign (thanks to the Former SC Governor and now Congressman Sanford’s twitter feed) Of course, Mark Sanford is no stranger to Congress as he returns after a stint as Governor of South Carolina. A former South Carolina GOP operative in talking with me this evening about Sanford’s return to Congress recalled that Sanford “was sort of infamous for being one of the most fiscally tight House members. He refused to rent an apartment in DC.”
In my opinion, that is what Congress needs, individuals that do not become permanent citizens of the District of Columbia.
WELCOME TO MOE’s!!!!
Gotta love a guy that campaigns on Election Day at Harbor Freight.
Lunch with the voters. A Statesman that knows what his job is. Talking to, understanding what the people want in their Representative in serving our Representative Republic that is America.
It is in the books. Victory was and is CERTAIN!
You don’t see the Democratic Party recycling their old politicians which have been publicly disgraced.
Anybody seen John Edwards lately?
One of the biggest problems with the Republican Party is they continue to stifle development of younger candidates, preferring to let the old guys have their way, taking their turn and somebody elses along the way, all reaching for a higher or a new position in the political structure, never being content to being a role player, and never going to the sidelines unless they’ve been term limited, blasted in an election, or just tired of the process.
You’d think some of these guys would have enough money saved up to pay their own air fare back and forth from D.C., but they (including Victor Ashe) are addicted to the public paying their freight to knob around the country/around the globe on the taxpayers nickle.
He will be used against the Republican party as an example of hypocisy and deceit. He will alienate voters tired of the same old same old. While I appreciate his fiscal responsibility and his conservative governing of SC, his affair and his deceit will overshadow anything else he has done.