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UPSTATE REPRESENTATIVE GETS OUR FIRST “UNDORSEMENT”

FITSNews - May 27, 2008 - For those of you who don’t know what an “undorsement” is, it’s the exact opposite of an endorsement. Basically, it means that if forced to choose between a particular candidate and an inanimate object, like a rock, you’d be better off voting for the rock.

Based on the anti-performance of the S.C. General Assembly over the past few years, we’ll probably be handing out a lot of these “undorsements” over the next few weeks, but our first is reserved for an overtly-racist, faux reformer, faux Republican named Bill Sandifer.

If you had to put everything that’s wrong with the South Carolina’s “legislative leadership” into a picture, then Sandifer’s face (above ) is what you’d find staring back at you. He’s dumb, he’s petty, he’s corrupt and he’s totally owned by special interests, and on top of that his voting record is slightly to the left of a left hand turn.

Given his vulnerabilities, Sandifer is one of the leaders of the so-called “Reform Caucus,” a comically-absurd effort designed to fool voters into thinking that the preeminent defenders of waste, inefficiency and corruption in the General Assembly are really all about change.

In fact, here’s an excerpt from the strategy memo that created Sandifer’s little group of deformers …

… this looks to be a terrible year to be an incumbent, as the voters appear to want change. They will be looking for “reformers.”

To combat both (Gov. Mark) Sanford and the “change environment”, the legislature needs to create a “reform” image for itself …

Ahh … nothing like honesty, is there?

Anyway, we don’t know much about Sandifer’s opponent Ed Rumsey, other than the fact he’s a former Air Force pilot and retired small businessman.

Rumsey was also one of almost two dozen challengers who signed a recent Common Sense Contract, which means he’s at least moving in the right direction when it comes to supporting real reforms aimed at fixing our tragically ass-backward state.

Again, though, Rumsey could be a rock - or a petrified dinosaur turd - and still be preferable to Sandifer.

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