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GREENVILLE BOOING STILL PLAGUES GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE
Try as he might, Gresham Barrett just can’t shake his recent record as a Congressman.
Nearly four months after Barrett was mercilessly booed at an Anti-Tax Day Tea Party in Greenville for voting for (and against) a $700 billion bank bailout and supporting the massive government stimulus package, the man who wants to be South Carolina’s next governor is still taking questions about that day.
A segment on WIS-TV in Columbia last night about Barrett’s statewide bus tour to build name recognition focused less on his trip around South Carolina and more on the “votes that could count Barrett out of the governor’s race.”
When asked by anchor Ben Hoover about his stimulus flip-flop and voters’ subsequent outrage, Barrett responded, “from the time I took the first vote to the time I took the second vote things had changed in this country and I believed with all my heart that we were literally days away [from a point] when mom and pop were gonna take their ATM card, stick it in the machine, and nothing was gonna come out.”
Barrett said he hoped people would look at his overall record and not just those votes.
But with America still suffering through a significant economic recession, financial woes remain at the forefront of most voters’ minds.
That is something that Barrett will have to overcome if he intends to be a serious contender for governor. And it will take a whole lot more than a bus tour to do it.
It would have passed without his vote. If that’s the worst and it must be because that’s all I’ve seen, I’m OK with that. The term Flip-Flop is way over used; it’s time for his opponents to get with the program. We’ve seen what a governor who stands on his convictions unyielding to change can do. I ready for a common sense approach.
Barrett is already a serious contender for Governor. If Barrett weren’t, Adam’s employer wouldn’t be ordering him to hypocritically attack Barrett. Adam and his employer supported the bailout from the get go.
Thanks for giving Barrett a little more name id. the more you talk about him, the more i think he’s the right choice for SC!
will you top notch journalist be in the Henry mac adds as extras?
It is hard to shake–kinda like losing a criminal trial to a guy with a dungeon.
Adam, GB is the only serious contender for governor from the Republican Party. This is proven given that he’s out raising McNugget 2to1. I just wish you’d give this guy some credit, he voted for the “bank bailout” big deal. If you were to take TPS, Fits, and all 100 Ron Paul lovers out of the equation GB wouldn’t have anybody in his way, and you know that.
Oh yeah…
http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/08/12/henry-mcmaster-coming-to-a-television-near-you/
i don’t understand how the vote would hurt him. is this page still against the stimulus? if so, you need to learn to read a balance sheet.
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Keep up the good work.
Barrett had his chance to vote with the people of South Carolina against the Bush-Paulson Porkulus and voted for tyranny. Before his second vote, hundreds of economists had signed a Petition that the crisis was being over-hyped by Paulson. I cannot believe even now that Barrett is defending that terrible, vote as if he would do it again. That decision is used by the Obama Administration to quadruple the national debt. This failure to recognize his vote was terribly wrong and continued justification of it, is exactly why we cannot elect that man as Governor. If he timely admitted his mistake, it would be a different story. He is clearly unqualified.
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First of all, please produce your alleged “Petition” [sic] that “hundreds of economists signed” claiming “that the crisis was being over-hyped by Paulson.”
Secondly, the lowest reasonable estimate sets the current national debt at approximately $11 trillion. I fail to see how a $700 billion dollar investment — which, I might add is being paid back at a great profit to the Treasury — would “quadruple the national debt.” Before you offer your economic arguments, I recommend you first study mathematics and then read up on the facts.