More On The Governor’s Plumbers
HOW SANFORD’S POLITICAL SPOOKS COULD GET CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN
FITSNews – April 17, 2007 - We reported last week that one of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s closest allies was rumored to be the mastermind of a surreptitious political intelligence gathering capability directed at individual members of the S.C. General Assembly. We’ll pause for a moment while State Sen. Hugh Leatherman sends someone to look up the word “surreptitious” in the dictionary …
Okay … while our sources have yet to reveal the identity of the Sanford ally in question, they have provided exclusively to FITSNews a list of five State Senators said to have been individually targeted by the governor’s Watergate-style “plumbing” operation. They are:
Sen. John Hawkins
Sen. Jake Knotts
Sen. Hugh Leatherman
Sen. Bill Mescher (since deceased)
Sen. Luke Rankin
Not surprisingly, all five of these Republican Senators are – or were – frequent and at times vocal opponents of the governor’s legislative agenda.
“Plumbers” get their name because of their ability to stop – or start – leaks, in this case of politically damaging information. The term became commonplace in political settings during the infamous Watergate scandal, where efforts to cover-up a botched political break-in forced the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in August of 1974.
No word yet whether the alleged Sanford plumbing operation is also directed at members of the House of Representatives, but count on FITSNews to keep you updated with the very latest information on this developing story …
Comments
By Chip Felkel on April 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Not Governor Sanford, no way he could ever be a part of such behaivor. Say it ain’t so.
By Lynn on April 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
This raises the question did Sen. Mescher die of natural causes or was were there some mysterious circumstances (a grassy knoll perhaps)?
By Junior on April 18th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
one down, four to go.
By Mike Reino on April 18th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I doubt there would be any retribution in the House.. The Senate is where all his legislation got killed. Is there any type of fairy dust that renders elfen-size Senators useless??
By RINO Buster on April 19th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I do think he will go after a couple house members. Which ones? Time will tell. He does have a war chest to burn.