The General And “Tumpy,” Too
They might not be the reigning mens’ doubles champions, but two South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidates are members of a controversial “whites only” country club that continues to make national headlines as GOP officials across the country deal with the growing perception that they have a racial problem.
Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell III, son of former S.C. Governor Carroll A. Campbell Jr., is or has recently been a member of the Forest Lake Country Club, according to sources at the club and documents obtained exclusively by FITS.
He joins current S.C. Attorney General and all-but-announced gubernatorial candidate Henry McMaster, who has been a member at the club for several decades – a fact not widely known until we reported on it last week.
Forest Lake, as you may recall, garnered national ignominy back in the late 1980’s when it refused to grant a customary membership to Ft. Jackson’s commanding military officer because he was Jewish.
Jews have since been allowed to join the club, but not blacks – a stipulation written into the deed of the property on which the club sits.
This policy of exclusion came to the fore earlier this year when current SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson resigned as a member of the club shortly before announcing his bid for RNC Chairman – a move many still view as opportunistic.
We’d like to point out that there’s nothing illegal about the club’s refusal to admit black members, nor is there really anything wrong with it … at least not in our book.
Private clubs – white or black – should reserve the right to reject anybody they like. That’s why they’re called private clubs.
You can start a private club today and refuse to admit redheads if you want. You’d be crazy (think Angie Everhart), but that’s your right.
The problem is that in 2008 – even in South Carolina – being a member of an all-white country club probably isn’t going to go over well with most folks, particularly not when you’re running for governor.
In fact, our guess is that Campbell and McMaster’s pollsters are busy right now trying to find out just how big a hit their respective candidates will take on this issue.
Stay tuned …
Comments
By Inaccurate source----again on December 30th, 2008 at 4:04 am
You are inaccurate about Mr. Campbell here. Whatever documents you may have are inaccurate.You may want to thoroughly check those,as I can assure you HE is not a member. However, we do think that the whole idea of Mr. Campbell running for governor is absurd, almost laughable. You
By fitsnews on December 30th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Dear Inaccurate,
So you’re telling us that the official Forest Lake Membership Directory (complete with Constitution and bylaws) is wrong? You know, the one that clearly lists Carroll A. Campbell III as member #9809-HM?
Wow. Go figure.
-FITS
By lou on December 30th, 2008 at 10:00 am
It’s not so much about a “whites only” club. It is all about EXCLUSION> Republicans exclude anyone who is not male, white and rich. They practice hate towards other groups, ie: black Americans, disabled Americans, Women, Native Americans, etc….
So really being a Republican IS all about being a rich white male with power…excluding those less fortunate then themselves.
By A commoner on December 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Politics is basically all about white men running for public office.They receive campaign donations from their rich white friends who have businesses. Once in office , the now very powerful white men grab taxpayer dollars and route them to their rich white friend’s businesses.
These gubernatorial candidates, McMaster and Tumpy, join these rich white only country clubs to foster their relationships with the rich white men. No blacks,poor folks, or commoners need apply .
By Toyota Kawaski on December 30th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Lou you sound like Lou Holtz trying to tell us how great ND is.Get a clue
By Silence the Noise on December 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
lou…..you’re an idiot. Forest Lake isnt a “Repulican” club. Then again…..sucsseful white businessmen are far more likely to be Republican.
The whole lower taxes, limited government thing.
The fact that Henry McFailure and Katon Dawson are members proves its QUITE liberal.
By Chris on December 30th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Lou….wow, you need to go back to that logic class. If a Mustang is a type of Ford, and a Ford is a type of car, does that mean all cars are Mustangs? I will readily admit that a majority of white, middle-aged men with money are Republican. But let’s see….Warren Buffett, Bill Gates….hmmm…Democrats. By the same token, there are countless Republicans that are not middle-aged rich white men. That is like saying that all Democrats are blacks on welfare. It is ignorant f**ks like you that perpetuate hatred and discrimination in this country EVERY BIT as much as the members of the above named club. Get a grip – and a life.
By Earl Capps on December 30th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Lou – your knowledge of Republicans is amazing. So if I am a Republican (which I am), my first wife was of sub-Saharan African descent (which she was), and that we had a daughter together (who I raised alone for years) then I hated my own family, right?
I await your response.
By right said fred on December 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Governor Sanford’s commerce secretary joe taylor is a member. Columbia city councilman kirkman finlay is too. Former usc president john palms is a member. Rep james smith’s daddy is member.bob pulliam of pulliam ford is member. Governor’s mcnair and west were members up until their deaths.
Your beloved nationally syndicated writer kathleen parker and husband of different last name are members.
If you have a copy of the directory and the stones, then publish the entire list. Not that there’s anything wrong with being on it.
By Gen. Longstreet on December 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
What, sir, is a “Tumpy,” exactly?
By Colonel Moultrie Says on December 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Lou,
Why don’t you just upload the latest charitable act, check you wrote to us for the poor; black Americans, disabled Americans, Women, Native Americans, etc….
You ULPOS
By Mark Harbough on December 30th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Earl- you are the man!
By HCB on December 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
“growing perception that they have a race problem.”
Will, seriously. “Growing perception”? Perceptions can’t “grow” if they’ve been media conventional wisdom since at least the 1960s.
By Workin' Tommy C on December 31st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
It’s not black or white or brown or Jewish or Christian–it’s elitists vs. the common folks. I don’t think Forest Lake represents any expression of real social problems since they’re well within their God-given rights, but the networking and flow of OUR tax money that goes on between government agencies, politicians, lobbyists, and corporations is a HUGE problem.
It’s politicians like Katon Dawson and Lindsey Graham and their corporate cronies that have left our borders open to terrorists just so some dirt-poor, TB infected illegal aliens can “pluck our chickens” (Graham’s term–not mine) working for very low wages and displacing our own citizens.
There are a bunch of folks out there who aren’t doing anything about it. How bad does it have to get? Graham and others–Democrats and Republicans–with their corporate welfare, neocon mentality have ruined the economy, let in rapists, murderers, and molesters (along with all those “chicken pluckers”)and there’s no bottom in sight for the pit we’re falling into. How much worse will it get before common folks will make their voices heard?
By Chris on January 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am
“before common folks will make their voices heard?”
Stress the work make. Until the masses get a clue and voice a loud enough opinion, instead of bitching to friends and co-workers, yet doing nothing more then acting as a good member of the flock when they hit that VOTE button, nothing will change. Things will have to get a LOT worse before Americans are motivated enough to turn off the PS3 and do something about it. Much easier to go on bitchin’.
By George Chell on January 25th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
No problem having exclusive white southern clubs as long as these good white folks dont complain about blacks having a black cultural center, Asians having their separate clubs or non-white groups sitting together in schools and not mixing with whites..I have found that a significant proportion of white folks who complain about non-white groups segregating themselves in school cafeterias indeed belong to all-white clubs which will not admit any non-white, let alone black. Folks who belong to exclusive clubs based on race have no moral authority to ask other groups to assimilate into mainstream culture.
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