Well there is Mel Watt's 12 congressional district in North Carolina.
Posted on 01/13/2009 7:39:50 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) accused House Democratic Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) of playing the race card instead of explaining increased spending he wants as part of a proposed stimulus package.
In an interview with The Hill, Sanford said Clyburn, the highest-ranking black lawmaker in the House, injected racial politics into their disagreement over what constitutes an earmark by raising questions about Sanford’s wealth and the plantation his family runs.
"He can't come up with a solid argument" in favor of the earmarks, Sanford said.
President-elect Obama has said he wants a stimulus that is free of earmarks.
Clyburn, in comments made to Roll Call, called for allowing federal money included in the stimulus to be sent back home to lawmakers’ districts. Sanford and others say that’s an end-around that would allow earmarks in the legislation without calling them such.
The money would bypass governors' offices and instead go straight to communities. Clyburn disagrees with Sanford, who opposes accepting that federal money.
Sanford has said he does not want additional federal funding despite the Palmetto State's high unemployment rate and poor budget situation. This year, Sanford's $5.8 billion proposed budget is about $1 billion less than the fiscal 2008 budget.
"[H]e happens to be a millionaire," Clyburn said of Sanford. "He may not need help for the plantation his family owns, but the people whose grandparents and great-grandparents worked those plantations need the help" in the form of federal money.
Sanford called Clyburn’s comments “not OK”
“It steps way past not only the truth but any kind of rational explanation of the earmarks [Clyburn] is in favor of," Sanford said. "You're playing the race card as your way of trying to defend stimulus packages and deficit spending out of Washington, D.C."
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And the BS starts.
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The more I hear from Sanford, the more I like him for 2012. He’s not afraid to call people out and make his case. That’s exactly what we need.
i find that when they play the race card usually the only other card in their deck is the joker.
Clyburn is a Je$$e Jackson wannabe. He is an embarrassment to us in SC.
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True, and Sanford earns a huge plus in his column for calling Clyburn out that way. Who else in this entire government, regardless of party, would have done the same? The temperature is rising, the great messiah of unity is splitting the country apart just as the muslims want him to, regardless of whether he is or isn’t one of them.
Clyburn needs to shut up, he and several members of his family have been under investigation for crimes for the past couple of years. I geuss he thinks with obama in the white house he’ll never get called to the carpet about what he’s done.
A fool like Clyburn is the result of tremendous ignorance of both blacks and their Liberal white so-called friends.
Wake up peoples, can’t you see beyond your little minds!
"He may not need help for the plantation his family owns, but the people whose grandparents and great-grandparents worked those plantations need the help"
This comment is actually racially slanderous, though it does not appear that way to the casual observer. The fact is that Sanford's father bought Coosaw Plantation when Sanford was in his Junior year of high school, but Clyborn leaves open the implication that Sanford's ancestors were slave owners.
So did Clymer ever succeed in shutting up the environmentalists and getting that bridge built down in the swamp? When I left SC at the end of 2004, it was all the news that he wanted something like $60 million for a nine-mile bridge across some swampland down in Colleton or Dorchester.
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Edie’s right. Take a look at a map of the Sixth District in SC and you’ll see he can never lose. It was literally built, on purpose, to elect a black man to Congress. It stretches 120 miles from Columbia to Charleston, encompasses any number of majority-minority towns along the way, and in places is no wider than the right-of-way along Interstate 26. It’s probably the most obvious racially-gerrymandered district in the entire country.
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Well there is Mel Watt's 12 congressional district in North Carolina.
I haven’t heard anything about his bridge for a while. I’m hoping it’s a bridge that will never be built. In one area he describes as being economically depressed (that is allegedly going to be helped by this bridge) has 3 drinking clubs within a 1/4 of a mile of each other. On the weekends, their business is booming.
Unfortunately I’m in his district.
A solid conservative move.
Fewer people working means less state revenue which means the state should cut spending instead of raising taxes which is the exact opposite of what Zero intends to do with the federal budget.
We need Governor Sanford in the White House instead of this travesty that's getting ready to be sworn in.
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