SC Republican chairmen apologize for Jewish remark

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SC Republican chairmen apologize for Jewish remark
AP

By SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press Writer Seanna Adcox, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 18 mins ago

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.

The chairmen, Edwin Merwin Jr. and Jim Ulmer, wrote the newspaper in backing Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's opposition to congressional earmarks.

"There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves," according to the piece published Sunday in The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg.

DeMint called the comment thoughtless and hurtful Tuesday, and one of South Carolina's two Jewish legislators, Democratic state Sen. Joel Lourie, said he was outraged. He called on the chairmen to be removed.

[rurallib]

1. Did he use their standard 'sorry if anyone was offended' line?

[Peacetrain]

2. Good point!

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Those old Klan roots are hard to hide. n/t

[tblue]

4. What is up with South Carolina? nt

[Sinti]

5. WTF????

The pennies and pounds thing has nothing to do with Jewish people. It's an old English saying for goodness sakes. Do they feel compelled to stick their foot in it, just to see what will happen, like a kid with a firecracker might test how it feels to have it blow up in his hand? Maybe I'm just not up on the inside lingo of Klansmen.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. "By their words you shall know them."