CEIPS CAMPAIGN SENDS OUT PHOTOS OF ‘ILLEGAL ALIEN’ ALLEGEDLY HIRED BY SENATE OPPONENT
To call the District 46 South Carolina Senate primary race between incumbent Catherine Ceips and Tom Davis, the former top aide to Gov. Mark Sanford, a choice between the lesser of two evils would be an understatement. Add in the fact that infamous bad boy consultant Rod Shealy is running Ceips’ campaign, it’s not only a lose-lose for voters, but it’s sure to have some nasty bloodletting as well.
And that first volley of gunfire came today, when Shealy “leaked” a photo (above) to the Associated Press and the Beaufort Gazette that he said shows an illegal immigrant hired by Davis to paint his Scott Street home. In the photo, a man identified as Josias Misale Ayala is seen standing in front of Davis’ front door.
Shealy, who ran Ceips’ Senate campaign last year and said he plans on running her re-election bid, said Randy Bates, a Ceips staffer and former candidate for House District 124, sent him the photograph of a man identified as Josias Misale Ayala.
“I do not know for sure who shot it,” Shealy said Tuesday. “I have the names of (Bates) and two other people who were witnesses to the immigrant.”
Neither Bates nor Ceips could be reached for comment this afternoon.
Shealy said proof of Ayala’s immigration status was based on a conversation his “sources” had with the man.
“They apparently had a pleasant conversation and the gentleman had no qualms about saying he was not there legally,” he said. “The photographic evidence is pretty strong. He clearly was there working, there was work being done. I believe there was an illegal immigrant there working.”
But Davis disputes all of Shealy’s claims.
“This is a company that obeys the law and plays by the rules at a time when many other companies are using illegal immigrants,” he said. [IAN LESLIE - Beaufort Gazette]
¡Ay dios mio! If this is the kind of stuff that Shealy is dropping with 11 weeks left in the race, I don’t even want to think about what’s around the corner.
Knowing Shealy’s record, Davis should expect at least a NAMBLA endorsement, some door-to-door canvassing courtesy of La Raza and/or a previously unheard-of “fifth cousin” to emerge who swears he has a fetish for killing kittens (or worse) in the near future.
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UPDATE: Just got another picture sent out by Shealy (click thumbnail for larger view):
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Illegal actors are cheap!
Rich Republicans using illegal labor. Who would have thought it!
Haha…why the outrage. Rich people exploiting illegal’s is WHY we have an immigration problem. So Tom Davis should join all the other rich right-winger an enjoy the money he has made, while watching US jobs being shipped overseas!
I don’t see how Rod is the bad guy. Tom Davis is the guy hiring illegal aliens.
I heard Sanford’s plantation is crawling with illegals that work there. But I don’t know for sure…though I am sure Tom Davis could tell us.
Perhaps the Governor and Davis share a “coyote”.
Mark Sanford on Illegal Immigration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJohB8htGk
It pays to have friends at City Hall New or should be we call this the Good-Ol-Boys ride again?
I guess it helps that Bill Harvey, the City Attorney, is also a partner at the Harvey & Battey law firm with Tommy Boy.
Who else could (or is that may) get away with this?
Something doesn’t add up. Or as the Bard would say, There is something rotten in the City of Beaufort.
Is doesn’t mean is anymore and obviously only in Beaufort must means nothing.
Stay with me here. Class now pay attention.
CLASS!
This is basic law school 101: must versus may.
The provisions regarding the issuance of a temporary license that are cited in the Gazette story are incorrect as a matter of law. Before all you lawyer types tee up the “I’m gonna sue you,” I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.
If the painting firm applied for a temporary business license after the fact (as reported in an AP story), it is contrary to Beaufort City Code.
Section 7-1002(21) of the Code defines a temporary license and notes “this license must be issued prior to beginning any work on the specified job ….”
The wise city fathers (and lone mother) when constructing the Code made it a mandatory requirement that the license be “issued prior to beginning any work.”
It was not written as a discretionary act allowing the clerk to issue the license after the work has begun. If that was the intent of the City Council the language would reflect that and allow for it: “this license may be issued ….”
Or maybe it should read “this license may be issued …. and if you are among the rich and powerful, don’t trouble yourself to follow the law we got special ways to fix that.”
Violations of the business license provisions are classified as a misdemeanor (unless of course you meet with one of the newly created special exceptions to the must issue requirement).
Class dismissed.
Tom Davis has plenty of skeletons in his closet, as well. Wait – I see a bleached white foot poking out!
Tommy Boy hired this guy?
Henry Tome?
Who is Henry Tome?
Iglesias imposter arrested for enticement
BEAUFORT — A Beaufort man was arrested Monday for a Dec. 7 incident in which he posed as a popular singer, helped a 14-year-old girl skip school and then took her on a date, police said.
Henry Tome, 28, was charged with enticing a minor from school for the incident, which happened after he met her in a Kmart and spoke to her on the phone the week before, Sgt. Daryl Rhoads of the Beaufort Police Department said.
The girl met Tome behind the gym before school started Dec. 7, according to reports, and the girl’s friend alerted school officials of the plan later in the day.
The victim called her father after Tome took her to McDonald’s and Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, the report states.
Tome told the girl his name was Enrique Iglesias, Rhoads said.
The Three Stooges of politics:
Richard Nixon, November 17, 1973 - “I am not a crook.”
Bill Clinton, January 26, 1998 - “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Tom Davis, Esq., March 24, 2008 - “I did not hire that illegal alien.”
He said, he said, he said and he aint saying.
Let’s settle this thing with an easy solution.
Strap Tom Davis and Rod Shealy down for a polygraph.
What say you Mr. Davis?
What say you Mr. Shealy?
Tom Davis has been doing Sanford’s dirty work for years…so don’t think this campaign will be clean.
Someone should ask Tom the REAL reason he left the governor’s office the last time…
Oh how i hear those skeletons rattling…