A government rally bashing S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford for refusing to accept $700 million in bureaucratic bailout money wasn’t anything near what it was cracked up to be.
Despite an unprecedented barrage of taxpayer-funded communications aimed at drawing people to the event, the government-sponsored “People’s Rally for the Stimulus” drew scarcely 1,000 attendees yesterday – or less than a quarter of the crowd that annually descends on the State House in support of parental choice.
And that’s liberal La Socialista‘s estimate, people, not ours. We put the crowd at just under 1,000.
Also, by our count, at least 10% of the people you see in these pictures were actually on hand to show their support for Gov. Sanford.
Sure, it was a much bigger crowd that the non-taxpayer-funded rally the day before, but still … if this doesn’t prove our point that the only people bitching at the governor about this are bureaucrats (and the mainstream media), then we don’t know what does.
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By lou April 2, 2009 at 8:19 am
Hey SIC Willie, people are startin to get pissed off.
By fitsnews April 2, 2009 at 8:21 am
It was a “cracked polystyrene rally, (which) just crumbled and burned.”
Anybody wanna take a stab at what song we’re listening to now?
-FITS
By Toyota Kawaski April 2, 2009 at 8:51 am
your listen to Richard Simmons sweatin to the oldies
By T4 April 2, 2009 at 8:59 am
Again, voter apathy. Trust me, plenty are disgruntled and pissed off at govna Sanford’s “mandate from heaven.” People simply feel disenfranchised.
By Mab April 2, 2009 at 9:12 am
T4 —
The Guv. = our white Moses!!!
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You didn’t get the memo?
By Natasha April 2, 2009 at 11:51 am
What a joke. You people want to print more money and send our economy down the tubes rather than have businesses held accountable for poor decision making? It’s the way capitalism works. And btw when they do file for bankruptcy, isn’t it required to have a reorganization? Obama doesn’t need to tell these guys to reorg and fire their top dogs, a bankruptcy does. Fail fail fail, the market will adjust the way it is supposed to. And aren’t we insured by the FDIC for up to $100k in each of our financial/bank accounts as well? I think that changed to $250k. Wake up people!!! Government is printing money, does that sound like a good idea to you? And burdening your children and grandchildren with trillions of dollars in debt. Obama is taking this opportunity to expand government that is the only growth you’ll see out of this.
By T3 April 2, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Haha, nice.
By RedBank Bar April 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm
It figures, the Sanfordistas waving Confederate flags.
By Brian April 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Sic
You are missing the boat on this one. My wife and I were out to dinner last night and all anyone in a silly Mexican restaurant was talking about was Mark Sanford. At church on Sunday, Mark Sanford. At my son’s soccer game, Mark Sanford. All of it from Republicans and Democrats is bad, very bad for him. I know you and Sanford are smart politically but you missed this one bad. I have never heard the normal average SC citizen so pissed off like they are right now. My guess is an opinion poll on him right now might not even give him 20% support across the state.
I suggest you and your buddy call off the wolves and take the money or else find another job.
By Fashizzle April 2, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Brian…I too was out to dinner and although I agree with you that people are talking about Sanford, most of the people I hear from support the Governor. This probably results from the fact that people tend to surround themselves with friends who share similiar views so it makes sense that two people can have different experiences here. The bottom line is the Governor does not believe in saddling us with crippling debt to buy two more years of good time wastefulness. Opinion polls don’t matter today. If he called this one right and the stimulus creates more problems than it solves his polls will be sky-high in a few years…just in time for 2012.
By Brandon April 2, 2009 at 5:23 pm
My comment to fair weather conservatives is “How can you decry the welfare state on Monday, and ask the Governor to get your free cheese on Tuesday.”
The Gov is dead nuts on the mark. Our country is doomed if Washington can count on conservatives turning against a man they elected not once, but twice, on his pricipals of being a fiscal conservative, just because the economy slows.
By Chuckie [Rugrats' fame] April 2, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Fashizzle, you always have keen insight. Sky-high approvals = exactly right.
That’s if we are still part of this Union.
‘I predibt’ Newt Gingrich will be the Guv’s most credible competition @ 2012.
By chris April 2, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Never seen a bigger group of clueless TARDs….They dont have any momentum because they arent smart enough to understand the true issue.OOH Public school teachers.I wondered why they all came in a short bus
By hilton wannamaker April 2, 2009 at 10:45 pm
A lot of us “Commies” voted for Goldwater, Reagan, Bush, Campbell, and [gag]
Lucifer, I mean Sanford.
By BIN News Editorial Staff April 2, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Wacko paid political hacks of S.C. really get together at sic(k) willie’s porn site. Flushizzle is a m@r@n if he really thinks “the people” are supporting sanfraud’s latest scam on S.C. Watch for the Palin-Sanfraud bumper sticker.
BTW. Where was all of this moral outrage when the Administration of the last 8 years was digging the USA into this hole? What a scam. Take the money, Mark.
By Marvin April 3, 2009 at 1:14 am
BIN, trust me — those of us who are fiscal conservatives and support democracy and the free market saw very little of either in the last eight years in DC, and even less in the Republican-led Statehouse in the last five years. We ain’t defending them, dude.
Don’t be too sure people are not supporting the governor. They are suspicious of this money, they know they gotta pay it back and that if they can’t afford state government programs without it, then we are screwed in 2 years. The working people in this state and the small businesses that pay the majority of paychecks are small businesses. There ain’t nothing for them in Bobby and Hugh and Glenn and Danny’s “knowledge sector pyramid,” or whatever that thing is. All that crap does is pay more bureacrats to sit in a room at talk about their vision for a “marathon, not a sprint.” Meanwhile, they’ve made the private sector pay for this scam.
We have 11 percent unemployment and no one to blame but those guys. They screwed up, they are panicked and they don’t want to get blamed for the mess, so they are scrambling to make Sanford look like the bad guy so people won’t examine too closely what those guys aren’t cutting out of the budget. If we did, we’d see all the crap behind the curtain, and it would infuriate the taxpayers.
Mark is right. Bobby and Glenn and Hugh, etc. are wrong. Leave the money alone and cut spending right now so we can recover from this in the long run, and figure out the right plan for going forward.
By BILLHILLY April 3, 2009 at 3:23 am
It is like everything else of importance around this area. We don’t hear anything about it until a day later. If the media including the State paper and WIS tv would try to be impartial and objective when reporting what is supposed to be the news we would know ahead of time events like these were scheduled. If a rally was held to dump Sanford and properly advertised Williams Brice stadium all the way to Elmwood street would probably be SRO.