Posted on 04/04/2009 6:53:22 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For a millionaire, Gov. Mark Sanford has a reputation for frugality that borders on the extreme.
Former employees say he has been known to require his staff to use both sides of a Post-it note. When Mr. Sanford was a congressman, he slept on a futon in his office and returned his housing allowance. And when, after he moved into the Governor’s Mansion here, tax collectors declared his family’s home on Sullivan’s Island a secondary residence subject to a higher tax rate, he appealed and won.
Now, with his threat to refuse more than $700 million in federal money to stimulate the economy, Mr. Sanford’s contrarian streak is taking him from South Carolina, which is second only to Michigan in unemployment, to the national stage.
On Friday, just before the Obama administration’s deadline, Mr. Sanford became the last governor to certify that he would accept some stimulus money, but declared that he would not accept the $700 million largely designated for education unless the legislature agreed to use a similar amount to pay down the state’s debt. (He did, however, accept most of the remaining $2.1 billion for Medicaid, transportation and other uses. Only Mr. Sanford and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska have rejected the education money.)
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Through the tumult, Mr. Sanford has remained unperturbed. “I think the fatal flaw of a lot of people in politics is that they want to be loved,” he said Friday in an interview in his office. “I sleep like a baby at night.”
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Is Mark Sanford implicitly mocking John McCain?
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I’d support either Palin or Sanford for president. If we have another election.
That's how many folk become millionaires.
Ah yes, more straight forward, non-biased reporting from the NY Times. How could the paper possibly be broke?
” Fort Jackson is located in South Carolina, near the state capitol of Columbia. A metropolitan region with a population over 400,000, Columbia offers a diversity of experiences and attractions.
Columbia displays its patriotism proudly and is glad to be the home of Fort Jackson, the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army.
The Fort Jackson/Columbia area is a moderate cost-of-living area. The location operator’s phone number is 803-751-5141. “
I say again....”The Fort Jackson/Columbia area is a moderate cost-of-living area.”
I say again....”The Fort Jackson/Columbia area is a moderate cost-of-living area.”
THATS MY GOV!!!!
SANFORD/PALIN 2012
It’s such a pity that we can’t have Sanford/DeMint. Oh well.
I’d rather have DeMint/Palin or Palin/DeMint.
This might be the Presidential ticket in ‘12: Either Palin/Sanford or Sanford/Palin. Palin will still have to fully express her views on illegal immigration (And it better be “pro-enforcement of all present laws only!), and Sanford will also still have to really officially end his beliefs in man-made global warming, if such a Presidential ticket is going to actually be successful. Failure to actually do these things and it’s already all over for both of them.
Sanford voted against Kyoto in 2000, but yes, you are right, he will have to officially come out against man-made global warming, or at minimum, carbon cap-and-trade.
Think he is more likely, referencing our Prez,Obama. . .
(Also, believe Haley Barbour; Gov of Mississippi is trying to say 'no' to funds as well. . .and being threatened,for his efforts; by Obama Administration.)
It sounds like a great ticket, but other than the south and a few western states they will not win NY, CA, IL, OH, PA, the entire northeast and other big electoral vote states. Things are gonna have to get a lot worse, and maybe they will. I am NOT a defeatist just a realist. This is not the eighties. We gotta work harder to change things.
I’m both: a realist defeatist.
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