WTF! NOW Sanford is going to worry about jobs?????????????

[Are_grits_groceries]

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But Sanford allies like John Rainey, the state’s chief economic adviser who encouraged Sanford to run for governor in 2002, said he dined with Sanford on Sunday and encouraged the governor to stay on.

“The state would lose momentum. A change in administration would take months to adjust to,” Rainey said. “I said (to him) ‘You must stay. It is your duty to stay.’”

Rainey said Sanford now must focus on job creation. South Carolina ranks third in unemployment with 266,000 jobless workers.

“We’ve got people underemployed and unemployed. We’ve got (food banks) with empty pantries,” Rainey said. “We are in the vortex of an economic storm. Things are going to get worse before they get better. The state’s success is tied to (Sanford’s) success.”
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http://www.thestate.com/local/story/846576.html

That asshole has done NOTHING to bring jobs to this state. He hasn't done anything about retraining people for new types of jobs.

He's worked hard at 2 things. Dismantling the public school system and not accepting the stimulus money that we so badly needed.

Unfortunately the state's success has been tied to him, and it's been all down hill. It's time to cut him loose and set the effing state free. He's done enough thankyouverymuch.

I hope he sticks a roman candle up his pious tight ass and flies to the moon.

[sarcasmo]

1. Bill Clinton, will you please go after this guy the way he went after you.

[el_bryanto]

2. I think he's sincerly worried about job loss - one job in particular admittedly

The prospect of unemployment does tend to focus the mind.

Bryant

[napi21]

3. I heard one comment he made over the weekend where he said

he was going to try to work WITH the State legislators because the past few years have been very difficult.

I still think he should resign...not because of his affair...but for total irresponsibility when he abandoned the State and all his duties for 5 days and wwas unreachable! Anyone in any job, no ,atter what position it was, would have been terminated!

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. That was the funniest thing he has ever said.

Sanford has done everything in his power NOT to work with the legislature - and the majority of them are Rethugs.

In 2006, he targeted some of them and supported other Rethugs.
Secret Proposal Aims to Defeat Anti-Sanford Lawmakers
http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064227409&ShowArticle_ID=11462201080760466

They'd rather work with the Devil himself. All that has gone on in the last few years has been monkey business. Sanford and the legislature fling poo back and forth at each other.

PS - The reason Lindsey Graham is backing Sanford is because he and the Gov of Love made a deal. Sanford agreed not to run agains Graham in his 2008 bid for relection to the Senate. I'm not sure what Sanford got out of it, but I'm sure we will see. He's getting some of it back now with Graham's support.

[napi21]

6. Can't you find a decennt Dem to run aginst Graham? n/t

[blindpig]

10. Nope

Never seen one in these parts.

They are indistinguishable from Republicans, even more so than the average.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. There are a couple of candidates that are not bad.

However, my opinion of the leadership on the party is, shall we say, piss poor. They have their own little patch of turf and they busily protect that. Carol and Don Fowler have run the party forever, and until they go, the party won't function well.
In 2008, the person who ran against Graham was an ex Ron Paul supporter who switched parties. He was a loon who still got 42% of the vote.
Obama's organization is setting up offices in the state thank heavens. Democrats can be elected, but not the way it has been going.

[xxqqqzme]

4. Is he having a mental breakdown?

This is really erratic behavior from out here in non-South CArolina.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. I have given that a lot of thought.

Sanford has always been strange. He has never fit in with anybody in the state. He has never been a run of the mill Southern politician.

When this mess began, I really didn't think it was an affair. I know anybody can change, but a lover never entered my mind. The man really fell in love to my astonishment. Sanford went against every moral code he has espoused.

I think he did have some kind of break. He had to be under enormous pressure. He had to handle:
1- A faraway woman who he appeared to have lost his mind over.
2- His own marriage. There was never a peep about any trouble.
3- His 4 sons. Although he has treated them like crap in this mess, I think in his warped way he really does love them.
4- His moral and political ideology had split him into 2 pieces. On one side he was going against everything he believed in, and on the other he was holding tightly to his political beliefs.
5- somewhere in this he is supposed to be governing a state.

I think he snapped in some way, and I don't think he's right yet. He's in Sanfordworld now where everyhting is going to be okay. He's juuuuuuust like King David.

As Uecker said, "Juuuuuuuust a bit outside."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. When he works on holding onto jobs other than his own,

pigs will fly.

[Are_grits_groceries]

9. That would mean that

almost the whole state legislature would take wing.

[havocmom]

12. "... Sanford now must focus on job creation"

He's doing his part for steady employment of divorce lawyers.