Comments on: Grooms Won’t Make Haley Eat Stimulus Vote

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:40:57 +0000

Wont even make out the primary

By: Yawn

Yawn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:29:55 +0000

JACK, get your facts straight. Gresham Barrett voted with every other republican in Washington to OPPOSE the stimulus. He’s a conservative that will do what the Governor in this state is supposed to do — CREATE JOBS.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:17:42 +0000

Gresham Barrett is a weasel. He never gives a direct yes/no answer to correspondence urging his support or non support of pending legislation. His response is usually that he will give consideration to your input. That means absolutely nothing. Why is he afraid to take a stand? Who does he have to check with before casting a vote? It is obviously not the people of the 3rd district.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:17:22 +0000

When a Candidate for higher office promises to support pending legislation in his current position to numerous different people, on various occasions and still has made no effort to sign on as a cosponsor 3 months later, one has to question ALL of the representations he has made on the campaign trail. If you oppose the concept, so be it, just state your opinion. Gresham Barrett cannot be trusted to act as he promises on the campaign trail, or did the stimulus vote not make that clear already?

By: Liberty

Liberty — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:44 +0000

Gresham Barrett has about as much of a chance becoming the Governor of SC as I do of becoming President……and I am not even American.

That guy is a dumbass.

By: Smelly Cat

Smelly Cat — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:12:14 +0000

I do live in the 3rd, and you are correct. Constituent Service used to be excellent. Then it crapped out. Not sure what happened, but that is a fact CNSYD.

I will vote for Gresham Barrett 3 times. Once in the primary, once in the run-off and once in the general. Of all the candidates, he is the best. But he needs to get his 3rd District offices back in shape.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:04:12 +0000

Smelly cat, do you live in the 3rd district? I do and would not vote Barrett for dogcatcher. Constituent service is unknown to him.

By: Smelly Cat

Smelly Cat — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:39:09 +0000

Does it really matter what spitting contest Haley or Grooms get into? Neither one will have a chance to win.

What we have here is two folks fighting within the chambers and it will ultimately hurt Andre’. McMaster is about as much a factor in this race as Nelson, so who wins? Gresham Barrett. Those who vote for Haley and Grooms will switch to Barrett in an eventual run-off.

I predict that Gresham and Andre’ will be in a run-off. Barrett will be our next nominee, but in a very close and bitter race. The biggest negative (besides the stimulus vote) that Barrett has right now is his hiring of Heath Thompson. Thompson was the bonehead that lost it for Peeler in 2002. Which eventually got us into the situation we are in now. I like Sanford, but he needs to learn to compromise a little bit. Just a little bit, please.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:16:16 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but every Republican in the General Assembly voted for the state budget that included stimulus funds. Then the governor line-item vetoed his portion of the stimulus money, and some conservatives including Haley voted to sustain that veto.

And I also think her vote in question here was not to use stimulus funds but simply to allow the House to draft two versions of the state budget for the purpose of debate–one that included stimulus funds and one that did not.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:14:34 +0000

Eat the stimulus vote? The vote was to DEBATE one bill with the stimulus and one without. Hardly was a vote for the stimulus. Her vote when it came down to it was a NO vote on the stimulus.

Time to Call…record shows on the actual vote for the stimulus she voted NO.

This is a far stretch and twist of another Folks story.