Posted on 05/20/2010 1:29:28 PM PDT by Mamzelle
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- A Spartanburg County judge has ordered a political action committee to pull it's ads. ReformSC is running ads in support of Republican candidate for governor Nikki Haley. Judge James Hayes issued the order at the request of Haley primary opponent Rep. Gresham Barrett and three unnamed donors to ReformSC.
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An issue in SC recently is that the pols at the State House don't want their votes recorded or reported publicly!
Nikki has pissed off the old boys, non-transparent SC gov’t operations.
Yes, and she was behind the effort to require them to vote on the record. I believe she said that 99% of Senate votes were by voice and 92% of Assembly votes. This means that the legislatures, for the most part, never had to go on the record INDIVIDUALLY on a topic — sort of like Obama voting Present.
Take the ad, let someone else sponsor it, and put it right back up.
Are there current poll numbers? I seen so little in the news regarding this race.
“Judge Orders SC Political Ads Off Air”
Ilegitimus judicus. He’s prohibiting free speech. Unconstitutional.
I think one poll has her at 30%—the Palin endorsement was golden. Now we’re beginning to see more of Barrett’s true colors.
Good grief, Charlie Brown, where's the editor? They need to have the Apostrophe Protection Society sicced onto them.
WTF? Free speech anyone?
How can this be? You mean to tell me that I don’t have the right to know how my legislator voted? This is just unreal!
That's exactly what Mark Critz's surrogates did leading up to the special election for Murtha's seat.
He got caught in a lie trying to say that Tim Burns supported a 23% sales tax on everything, had to apoligize, then had his lackeys in AFSCME put out virtually the same ad under their lying sponsorship.
Prohibiting political speech is highly, highly unusual. Likely a violation of the 1st amendment.
What if your contribution to support a conservative candidate was being used to support a liberal, like say, Meg Whitman or Barbara Boxer? Would you be happy about it?
bttt
Found an article on this. 30%, yes. Very exciting.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/05/20/gop-candidates-react-to-latest-polling-data/
Any contribution to the national GOP IS going to Liberals.
“What if your contribution to support a conservative candidate was being used to support a liberal, like say, Meg Whitman or Barbara Boxer?”
Is that what’s happening?
Seems like a “buyer beware” issue.
One should always scrutinize the organizations that they give money to.
-PJ
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