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Posted on 06/09/2009 8:46:06 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
A new letter from House Speaker Bobby Harrell places blame for the state’s high unemployment at the feet of Gov. Mark Sanford, alleging that the governor is not interested in creating and preserving jobs in South Carolina.
“Unemployment has consistently risen during your administration, and you have refused to present even a single key jobs-creating initiative to the General Assembly,” Harrell wrote in the letter dated Monday.
He challenges Sanford to address the problem.
“The power to reduce this number lies almost exclusively in your hands, as it has for the entirety of your administration,” Harrell wrote.
The letter touches on several disputes involving unemployment in South Carolina. Harrell notes that unemployment was 6.4% when Sanford took office and reached 11.5% in April. Harrell said that doubling of the number of people receiving unemployment benefits is why the state has to borrow federal funds, and he said the governor has not focused on turning it around.
Joel Sawyer, the governor’s spokesman, said Tuesday that the dispute “boils down to a fundamental disagreement on how to grow jobs.”
Sawyer said Harrell supports government spending on such expensive projects as hydrogen research, while Sanford wants to institute broad reforms to improve South Carolina’s competitiveness, such as the elimination of corporate income tax and the offer of an optional flat tax.
The two Republicans also clash over this session’s efforts to transform the Employment Security Commission into a Cabinet agency. Harrell asserts that Sanford didn’t make the change a priority early in the year and did little to garner votes for the package.
“As you know, this issue was debated in the House on two separate occasions, and it was clear that you failed to garner even a single vote of support for this reform from the House membership on either occasion,” Harrell wrote.
The governor mentioned the reform bill in his State of the State speech and praised Harrell for his support of it, Sawyer said.
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Time for a good Third Party.
Time to throw these bum-rinos out. They constantly misrepresent all of us, and then the hypocrite rats run some idiot that says all the right things, which some moron ‘conservative’ eat up and end up voting for the rat. Case in point, the current US Congress.
You’re right. Another case in point is Newt Gingrich. In front of a Conservative audience, Newt is fine; but give him a mixed audience, he is pure RINO. We need some one to “tell it like it is”....and Ronald Reagan has been dead for 5 years.
Yep, Newt likes to play a conservative, but in real life he appears to be a moderate.
I have to say, so far, I like Sanford and Palin, and to a lesser extent Perry and Jindal.
IAnother point: Very soon, people are going to go “John Galt” and say to hell with it all. I know I am. Why fight for the bastards who don’t appreciate any thing but their “temporary” comfort? F-em!
Sanford and Palin are my favorite too. I will support either of them.
Please....just WHERE do these morons come off thinking the government CREATES jobs?!!!
Go with your gut feelings. I am sick of them all but give Palin the best mark. If Sarah Palin shows some gumption, I’ll listen. That’s how I feel. We are sunk as a country and it is very sad.
Survival of the fittest is here.
I’m with you on your top four lineup there!
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