Friday, January 13, 2006

Sanford blasts Lovelace for out-of-county donations

Below: Sanford uses maps to contrast his tight
base of local support with Lovelace’s donors from
“all over creation”
“So much for being a ‘Newberry’ physician,” scoffs Governor

B & P News - Columbia

Governor Mark Sanford took aim today at GOP primary opponent Oscar Lovelace, for the large percentage of out-of-county donations accepted in his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

“All I’m saying is, if this guy’s a ‘Newberry’ physician, why is money flowing in from Greenville, and Aiken, and Charleston?” asked Sanford at a press conference. “Sounds a little fishy to me.”

Sanford used charts to illustrate that his opponent’s donations have come from “practically all over creation,” while contributions to his own campaign have been relatively localized. While Lovelace does not deny that he has accepted numerous contributions from non-Newberry counties, he says he “patently rejects donations from Marlboro County, on principle.”

Even with a small war-chest that rolled over from his MUSC Student Body President campaign, Lovelace trails the governor in fundraising so far. But he doesn’t necessarily think large donations will affect voter turnout in the primary.

“Dollars translate to votes about as well as Gullah translates to pig Latin,” said Lovelace, consulting his notebook of state-specific one-liners. “South Carolinians can’t be bought like a cheap trinket from South of the Border, and Pedro can hang his sombrero on that.”

10 comments:

earlcapps said...

wow ... that is EXCELLENT photoshop work. far better than anything i can do, that's for sure.

pretty funny story too, like always. great work - keep it up.

Laurin Manning said...

Gervais knows that the "notebook of SC-specific one-liners" is my absolute favorite! Haha!

Laurin Manning said...

Why the rejection from Marlboro County contributions, though? The Mannings have been in Marlboro County since Moses Manning parted the Pee Dee River during the American Revolution. (Okay, so it's only confirmed that he sold cattle near the river.)

Anonymous said...

This would be funny if he actually had raised any money or could be taken seriously as a statewide candidate.

Check out the contributions to date at:

https://ssl.sc.gov/Ethics

PS...My dem friends (no pun intended) really, really like Oscar, what does that say?

Laurin Manning said...

How would "dem friends" be a pun?

Anonymous said...

The Palmetto Institute is nothing but a sham organization for Darla Moore to advance her agenda in preparation for her gubernatorial campaign. She’s the only statewide hope for the Dems in 2010. Joe Erwin has taken himself out of contention with his performance, or lack there of, as State Chairman.

Anonymous said...

We know that the Instititue is an anti-tax reduction organization, but thank you for bringing it to our attention again, Mr. Folks. Don't you have your own blog you can comment on?

Ross Shealy said...

Okay, kids -- that's enough.

Laurin Manning said...

QAF, I know you love a good conspiracy theory, and I hate to ruin another one for ya, but I know who writes Capital Cafe and who writes Masked Media, and neither is Will Folks.

Laurin Manning said...

Goddess? I like that!!!! ;-)

I won't argue with you that there are some of the same sentiments on the other sites (Will does have friends!), but the writing styles are too different to be Will's. I could spot Will's writing 10 miles away.