By FITSNews || S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford will not veto the entire $21.1 billion state budget this year, sources tell FITS.
Instead, Sanford will issue “lots of” individual vetoes, although our sources declined to say how many vetoes will be issued or whether the governor has a specific dollar amount in mind. Sanford has yet to disclose his intentions regarding the state budget, which was passed last Thursday just fifteen minutes before lawmakers adjourned for the year.
In previous years, Sanford has gone both ways – veto speaking, that is - rejecting the entire spending plan as well as targeting his vetoes toward programs he didn’t like.
Governors in South Carolina do have the “line-item” veto, but the bundled manner in which the budget is written makes it difficult for them to get at individual spending items. We have long advocated for an online checkbook – not only for transparency’s sake but because it would better enable governors to target unnecessary spending.
However busy Sanford’s veto pen ends up being, we’re hearing that there’s a growing sentiment within the House Republican Caucus to support his decisions.
That could mean some real savings to S.C. taxpayers if Sanford decides to get aggressive – which we hope he does.
By Just call me Ava June 7, 2010 at 11:36 am
And how is this different from Sanford any other year? The SC Legislature will do what it always does, over-ride the vetoes. That’s why Sanford hasn’t gotten anything done in the past 8 years and it’s why Haley will be a carbon copy (right down to the cheating).
By CSOL 2L June 7, 2010 at 11:49 am
I can see India from the Charleston School of Law!
V i n c e n t S h e h e e n, our next gov’nah.
By No Name June 7, 2010 at 11:56 am
Well I guess this is what you waited around for Mark….it has certainly gotten weird enough out there for you….and if you are planning a Spitzer on us and want to recapture what could have been yours nationally were it not for your penis getting in the way…..well now is the time to show some voice and intent on what must be done.
Hell….eveyone has played the river card …lets see yours.
By sclawboy June 7, 2010 at 12:05 pm
“In previous years, Sanford has gone both ways”
Inappropriate physical relationship” with one Will Folks, perhaps?
By Duh June 7, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Of course he won’t veto the entire budget, because that can be overridden with one vote by each chamber. Nice newsflash. Bwahahahahahhahahahaha
By Brian June 7, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Reminds me of the famous headline error:
“Governor’s penis busy” instead of “Governor’s pen is busy”
By Ttiger June 7, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Please Mr. Luv Gov. wee doont kneed ani mony fur edukasion. wee allredie smarter then wee youse to bee. kut al the mony sew wee kin go too privite skool fur our edukasion.
By Not so Much June 7, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Can he just veto himself? I suspect that he will cut funding for wheelchairs for the disabled, teachers for the learning disabled, and funding for any form of infrastructure repairs. Let’s leave those crumbling bridges and roads alone until they fall completely apart.
“Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome; time for this one to go home.”
By Lawmaker123 June 7, 2010 at 12:33 pm
The growing sentiment you talk about is called “Armtwisted”. The Reformers in the House let Speaker Harrell twist their arms and sellout their principles to vote for that awful $21B budget. The only voted for the budget when Speaker Harrell promised to allow the rest of the RINOs to vote to sustain many of Sanford’s vetoes.
So there isn’t a growning sentiment, just just people who sold out on the budget to get some veto support from the RINOs.
By Cancerman June 7, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Bauer takes lie detector test, Haley campaign calls it a three-ring circus
race for South Carolina governor now involves a polygraph test as republican candidates scrap on the last day before Tuesday’s primary. The press office of Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer says that Bauer has taken a polygraph exam to “refute accusations made against him last week by opponent Nikki Haley.”
“I’m not willing to have that kind of false accusation go unchallenged,” Bauer says in the new release. “She made a false accusation about me, and I wanted to prove that I was telling the truth.”
The news release comes as Bauer is now considered dead last in at least one recent poll while Haley is leading the pack of republican candidates. The new poll from WCBD now puts Haley in first place with 43 percent of the vote and Bauer is at the end. The poll says Haley is the leader, followed by Congressman Gresham Barrett has 23 percent of the vote. Attorney General Henry McMaster has 16 percent and and Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer is last with 12 percent.
According to Bauer’s press office, – In a debate last week, Haley accused Bauer of being responsible for charges of marital infidelity against her. Bauer denied the accusation, and challenged Haley to take side-by-side lie detector tests to prove who’s telling the truth. Haley refused to take a lie detector test, but Bauer volunteered to submit to a polygraph test without her.
According to his staff, Bauer submitted to and passed an examination last night in Columbia which was administered by an independent, FBI certified polygrapher. The news release from Bauer’s campaign says “the initial verbal report was issued at the conclusion of the exam, and the final written report is expected to be issued later Monday morning,”
The news release also says that later today, a second, independent certified polygrapher will review Bauer’s test results and that the final exam will be turned over to a Columbia TV Station which had earlier expressed interest in providing polygraph exams for others.
“How can the voters of South Carolina be expected to make informed decisions Tuesday with this giant cloud of doubt hanging over us,” Bauer says in the news release. “I have done my part. Now it’s up to others.”
Tim Pearson from the Hayley staff sent this quote through an email “Nikki is focused on leading South Carolina for the next four years. We’ll let Andre focus on leading the three-ring media circus.”
By V.Mark June 7, 2010 at 1:20 pm
As one of Sanford’s staffers put it, he is “an extremely stupid man” and “I cannot fathom how he was elected.”
By George June 7, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Sanford is just paying us back for not believing that he went hiking in the Appalachians.
By CNSYD June 7, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Who is this guy Sanford? If he anybody important?
By Checking in June 7, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Sanford may have allies this year in the Democratic House, who is refusing to join in on the overrides, depending what they are. You need 2/3, and it is very hard to do that even with a majority body
By eggaday June 7, 2010 at 2:02 pm
can we possibly get Safraud to take a lie detector test?
i know someone with lots of questions for him… hell i know a bunch of people who have questions for him!
sanfraud, a name for Markie Mark for the South Carolina history books. ain’t he lucky?
By @parishilton June 7, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Give Sanford and Nikki another ally and vote Curtis Loftis for Treasurer! Vote for Reform…
By CNSYD June 7, 2010 at 2:25 pm
@parishilton, take a look at the Richland County court web site. Why all these civil cases involving Loftis? Is he a slum lord?
By Teapartier June 7, 2010 at 7:11 pm
I surmise that CNSYD is a senior House staffer, perhaps in Bobby Harrell’s office. “Crosby, Nash, Stills, Young and Dumbass” reflexively defends status quo hacks like Chellis and criticizes reformers like Haley and Loftis, while displaying so-called “insider” knowledge. Get back to work, fucker.
By ceilidh10 June 7, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I will just be relieved when Sanford goes. He is a pig-headed jerk.
By eggaday June 7, 2010 at 7:48 pm
sanfraud is going to jail.
sanfraud is gonna be a jail bird!
By Doris June 7, 2010 at 8:09 pm
But for April, Sanford has such an young, inexperienced, cheap labor staff – like Will once was, bless his heart – that no one in the Governor’s office even knows what the professional bureaucrats have put into the budget and where. He has a 29 year old art history major making recommendations on his vetos. Lord, have mercy upon us. I love Jenny, but she and Mark both hired the youngest, dumbest, and naive – but most enthusiastic and perky “professionals” state government have ever seen. And they were/are proud of it!
By Jimmy Byrnes Ghost June 7, 2010 at 11:55 pm
The GREAT news is that this is the last time we”ll ever have to suffer through another veto debate with the same predictable results. Dems and Sanford sycophants can’t achieve anything by sustaining vetoes other than saving a few bucks that will be re-appropriated in January. This is when Jenny was at her best….now we have to rely on agrup of well-intentioned individuals who have little of no understanding(insert reference to Gov. here) of how the budget is put together. Goodbye to MS & Co, please give us our State back!!
By jeannie June 8, 2010 at 10:28 am
He is meeting his soulmate again this weekend. Fits, you should have someone stake him out!