I disagree. In a competition of gravitas between Thompson and Hunter, it's Thompson .. hands down. This article has nothing to do with my stated opinion, but is today's news.
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/state/news/politics/16813983.htm
Posted on Fri, Mar. 02, 2007
Hunter drops two S.C. advisers
Republican presidential candidate and California congressman Duncan Hunter has dropped two top South Carolina advisers a week after they were appointed because of their inflammatory statements about immigrants and religious minorities.
Hunter spokesman Roy Tyler confirmed Thursday that former GOP lieutenant governor candidate Henry Jordan and Horry County Auditor Lois Eargle would no longer serve as campaign co-chairs.
Eargle, speaking Feb. 22 at a news conference, said an illegal immigrant with three children came to her office the day before asking for free legal help for an abused child.
“I told her the best thing for her to do was to get back to Mexico,” Eargle said then.
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Eargle said she meant to say the woman’s boyfriend had abused her, and the woman came for legal help to get him out of jail.
Jordan, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1996 and last year, said he thinks Hunter did the right thing. Jordan said he didn’t want his comment disparaging Muslims and Buddhists, made while he was a state school board member in 1997, to hamper Hunter’s campaign.
I read that story a day or two ago. Didn't cut any mustard with me. He dropped them. It's a non issue story.