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LT. GOV. MADE SAME PROMISE IN 2006 ABOUT NOT RUNNING FOR TOP EXECUTIVE POST
South Carolina’s second-in-command says he will not run for a full term as governor if Mark Sanford were to resign and leave him in control.
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer — who is currently running for governor — told CNN Monday that if Sanford steps down in the wake of a highly controversial extramarital affair, he would serve as his replacement for 18 months and not seek the office in 2010.
“We are at an impasse now because it’s all about 2010 and the next governor’s race, and I don’t see anyone being an adult,” Bauer told CNN. “The people that are so concerned for their own political future about running for governor, would no longer be worried if I came in and became governor, because I would just say. ‘You know what? This is bigger than politics. I will go and lead in for the next 18 months and not run for re-election.’”
But critics are quick to point out that Bauer has pulled this stunt before.
During the 2006 election, Bauer told the Greenville News that he would not run for governor if voters elected him to a second term as lieutenant governor.
“I want to go back, make a good living. I’d like to meet somebody and start a family. This stuff wears on you. Some people get a big drive out of it,” Bauer said at the time. “I’m a small business owner, and contrary to what a lot of people think … I don’t aspire to have any big dreams of holding big political office and carrying on some legacy.”
A South Carolina political insider told The Palmetto Scoop that, “if Bauer really cared about the people of this state he wouldn’t make such a pointless promise. By saying he’ll only serve the rest of Sanford’s term, he’s basically saying ‘I just want to put the word governor before my name.’”
Bauer’s statement is also contradicted by the revelation that his out-of-state consultant Chris LaCivita has been lobbying behind-the-scenes to get prominent Republicans to call for Sanford’s resignation.
“André Bauer is my client; I’ve been working this since Monday,” wrote LaCivita in an email obtained by the New York Times. “I need to get this guy (Sanford) out.”
Yeah right. And if nominated he would not run, if elected he would not serve. Right? I’m sure he’d come up with some story in 18 months saying how so many people expressed their strong desire that he run, and how he really didn’t want to . . . but if thats what the people wanted . . . .
Bauer needs to spend a little less time appearing on Fox News shows and a little more time working on his story. Cause, I ain’t buying this one.
When You Vote Republican You Get Immorality
Newsvine.com… Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:41 PM EDT
Republicans never tire of making public displays of how concerned they are with America’s moral fabric while supporting their own adultery and fornication at the same time. This while they judge others, deny equal rights to gays, plunder America’s treasury on illegal wars, support torture and discriminate against anyone who does not agree with them. Americans been barraged with laws, programs, sermons, demagoguery, the religious right, right wing bigots and all sorts of moral demonization from a Republican political movement whose most powerful pundit is a multiple-times-divorced drug addict who flamboyantly cavorts around with a new girlfriend every few months.
The GOP harbors these deviants and why Americans seem oblivious in caring is beyond words! Americans get more upset over two men kissing in a movie than they do murder, rape or soliticious sexual affairs by Republicans. Perhaps it is their own self righteousness that dictates a gross misjudgment of immorality.
After all, even now that this conduct has been exposed, their instinct, all the way to the highest levels, is to excuse and defend those leaders and offer up the most disgusting defenses, all because preservation of their political power depends on it. This is not some bizarre aberration. This is how they operate and it is who they are.
Republicans and the religious right talk a lot about threats to marriage and families, especially when scaring Americans about gay people. They do this to control, manipulate and raise money in an obscene hypocritical manner; however these right-wingers have the market on breaking up families and marriages, creating orphaned children and hurting people and destroying the moral fabric in America.
The Republican Party nor the right-wing, religious right preachers who claim “family values,” and “pro-marriage” platforms in the context of their Party and their religion in order to propel themselves to power and who cannot remain faithful to their own families and churches, demonstrates the PURE hypocrisy of the right wing and the so called “Christian/Religious Right”.
I must admit I always get a good laugh out of witnessing another one of these “family values” type politicians getting caught with his pants down. I say if a man cheats on his wife, he will cheat on anyone, his wife, his children, his political Party, his church, his congregants and his country.
The truth is that on a personal level these solicitous sexual affairs are none of my business however when elected leaders, taking taxpayer money, stand on their soapboxes and judge others, when they condemn gays and deny equal rights to all Americans, when they destroy the lives of their families and their children, when they use their political power to deny rights and benefits to others and use taxpayer money for self-righteous and religious right agendas then it becomes my business, it becomes Americas’ business.
My goodness, is there anything Andre Bauer won’t say to put himself first?
Really, is there anything?
Of course, I suppose in 18 months of deal making one can make a lot of money, possibly enough for a lifetime. And you would have the GOV title, and the relationships made, for a lifetime.
But my gosh, the rank gall of this man is amazing.
If Andre followed through on that promise, it would be the Deal of the Century!
Hey Andre — Deal!
~Hope springs eternal~
Andre would sell his mother to be Governor.
By the way, anyone seen his mother lately?
Andre needs to be Governor RIGHT NOW
Andre Bauer has tried to be governor but the people of this state do not care for him nor trust him. Gov Stanford has done more to represent and protect the people of this state more than any resent governor. This is why the politicans want him out. He has call them out too many time for trying to screw the people of this state. My question is how many of those wanting to throw stones have their own ladies, our men, on the side. His moral indresion dose not effect his ability to run this state.
Mr. Getting my 15 mins of fame,
Get your facts strait, he the Lt. Governor of South Carolina never said that. Speed reading is not always a good thing ya know?
Jeffey,
Get YOUR facts straight, SC Hotline doesn’t have a staff.
Adam,
You just seriously insulted my staff, offended the colonel and the senator… They have been sitting behind this laptop with me all morning working the hell out of a bag of pistachios and helping me with my strategery. A handwritten note of apology will suffice, until then eat crow and argue with The P&C
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/30/bauer_may_limit_run87665/
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