Powers-Norrell: Giving Female Politicians A Bad Name
Democrat Mandy Powers-Norrell, who waged one of the nastiest, most misleading (and potentially libelous) State Senate campaigns South Carolina has ever seen, still hasn’t called S.C. Senator-elect Mick Mulvaney to congratulate him on his eight-point victory … two days after the fact.
A congratulatory phone call is customary in political races, as the losing candidate typically places the call to the victorious candidate once the results of the race are clear.
Powers-Norrell’s conduct is similar to that of vanquished State Sen. Catherine Ceips, who refused to concede her 12-point defeat at the hands of Senator-elect Tom Davis earlier this summer.
Seriously, people … what is it with these chicks?
Powers-Norrell needs to understand that she still has a potentially bright future in South Carolina politics – assuming Mulvaney’s attorneys don’t eat her for lunch – but such petty, prideful displays make her look like a sore loser.
And like Ceips’ conduct, they do a grave disservice to the credibility of women in politics.
Comments
By GnuBerry on November 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
How did you find out this?
By Sharpening Stones, Walking on Coals, To Improve your Business Accumen on November 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
If you only talk shit about the people who run against the people who pay you,everyone can extrapolate who you work for and then the small percentage of people who come for news related issues, as opposed to morbid, voyeuristic pleasure,will be on to you and leave.
By fitsnews on November 6th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Great REM quote … not their best song, but a great quote nonetheless.
Well … it would have been had you known how to spell “acumen.”
Anyway, like we said, $750 doesn’t buy you a pot to piss in around here, because $750 doesn’t pay one quarter of one month’s phone bill around here.
And Sic Willie’s consulting firm produces LOTS of polls for LOTS of people, and lots of people pay him to tell them what his poll results mean. Mandy Powers-Norrell could call Sic tomorrow and he’d be happy to run a poll for her.
And why would (should) she do that?
Because Sic Willie understands the importance of asking the right questions of the right people in an operationally-defined, mutually-exclusive manner so as to produce dead-on “balls accurate” results, to borrow Marisa Tomei’s terminology.
And he knows how to turn those results into smart strategy, which is perhaps why every campaign he has ever consulted on has … wait for it … WON their election.
None of that, of course, makes Mandy Powers-Norrell any more or less of a bitch, or Mick Mulvaney any more or less of a horse’s ass (at times).
Nor does it buy them a drop of ink on this website, where we swing it however we want at whoever we want whenever we want to, something Sic’s clients (incidentally) must agree to up front.
We are, in fact, to borrow the Bare Naked Ladies’ term “so dangerous (they) have to sign a waiver.”
We also summon fish unto the dish, baby.
-FITS
By Politics Rocks on November 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Mike Gardner still has not called Sen. Glenn Reese to congratulate him yet either.
By CM Sullivan on November 6th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Not only did former Rep. Scott Talley never call to congratulate/concede in the Republican State Senate race he lost to Lee Bright in Spartanburg, but he staged a write-in campaign against the nominee in the General Election.
So much for Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
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By nope on November 6th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
WOuld we be talking about grace at all if she weren’t a woman?
By Diz on November 6th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
They pay Will for his balls, I’ve been told.
By Marty Bishop on November 7th, 2008 at 4:24 am
CM Sullivan,
Reagan’s Commandment applies to ALL stages of the race, not just the end. Now, I could frankly give a rat’s arse about that race. But in all truth & disclosure, you dang well know that Bright’s campaign broke that commandment as well. Don’t try to be the referee in that battle, you ain’t gonna cut it.
-Marty
By Rogers on November 7th, 2008 at 9:44 am
When the choice is between having a hot woman in elected office or some generic white guy, I would go with the hot woman. She would have been nice to look at around the State House. But not a total loss…from what I can tell this Anne Peterson Hutto has potential.
By Joseph Reynolds on November 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
You think Mike Rose called Bill Collins?
By Roger on November 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
You spend five or six months crapping on each other and you’re supposed to act like a regular plastic southernor and say ‘congratulations for stomping my name through the mud’. I realize it’s the polite thing to do but sometimes, polite is just stupid! Ronald Raygun is dead and it looks like he is taking GE with him!
By lancastermommy on November 11th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Not surprised at all. Mandy sent out her Victory speech by email and invited her supporters to a local restaurant about 2 pm on election day. Needless to say, she later had to give her cession speech at the ‘celebration.’
I don’t think she is even smart enough to be Lancaster’s City Attorney much less work in our state’s senate. Lancaster is very lucky to have a true conservative representing Lancaster and York counties, Mick Mulvaney.