Tom T on SC politics
I had the great fortune of meeting Tom Turnipseed back in 1996, when I was a field organizer for a non-profit doing money-and-politics research and advocacy. He was in his law office in Colombia, where he’d fallen back to after a knowingly-quixotic run at the South Carolina Attorney General’s office. Within five minutes of meeting him, he sang to me, an old tune from the forties iirc, and with a full-throated rendition that vibrated through every office in the building. He’s a white-male race traitor, a “amazing grace” amends-maker like me; and getting long in the tooth. This piece is not only informative on the occasionally bizarre topic of South Carolina, but a way for readers to meet this marvelous man.
Peculiar politics in South Carolina is a never ending saga. On June 15, South Carolina Republican State Senator Jake Knotts of Lexington told the South Carolina Senate he is proud to be a redneck and would not resign from the Senate for having called Nikki Haley and President Obama ragheads. Haley is a former Sikh of Indian ancestry and front-runner for the Republican nomination for Governor in the June 22nd run-off.
m.c.:
George Wallace is not a good example but it’s possible to be a center or right of center nationalistic instinct politician and be opposed to Imperialism. Take Charles de Gaulle. He withdrew troops from Algeria and Nato. Also supported domestic social programs and was popular with blue collar French.
p.s.– What do Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Marcy Kaptur, James Clyburn, Jesse Jackson, Fritz Hollings, Paul Wellstone(bless his soul), Jay Rockefeller, Bob Byrd, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, the Environmentalists, and the Labor Unions have in common?(all over the map)
Answer: They all oppossed and/or voted against Nafta in 1993.
22 June 2010, 11:51 amm.c.:
Three more Nafta no votes were Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, & Sherrod Brown. All still around.
sidebar: three more unc-ch bootlicking toadies. Alan Murray & Peter Wallsten write for the Wall St. Journal, and Doug Heye is the current RNC Communications Director.
13 July 2010, 6:20 pm