political shuffle should begin soon
Political update & Question-
Gresham Barrett is running for Governor.
Billy Odell plans to run for his House of Rep (Washington) seat.
So - who will run for Billy Odells state senate seat?
Ah, a couple of years away and the fun is already starting!
Why Capt. Leo of course! Now that he is "in" with the "formerly in" crowd he could be a shoo-in! JP can get him the out-of-state contributions!
Political update & Question-
Gresham Barrett is running for Governor.
Billy Odell plans to run for his House of Rep (Washington) seat.
So - who will run for Billy Odells state senate seat?
Ah, a couple of years away and the fun is already starting!
-julia-barnes
Let me give you a little political lesson if I may. Senator O'Dell is a state Senator. His next term expires in 2012. Therefore the answer is no one. Now, if he wins then there will be a special election in 2011 to fill his seat. This is the same thing that occurred when Senator Waldrep ran in 2002. He lost, he retained his seat for 2 more years.
Now, there are 3 folks that have declared their candidacy that are members of the SC House. Jeff Duncan (laurens, i think), Michael Thompson (anderson), and Rex Rice (pickens). The question now should become who will fill their seats? They have to give theirs up, they run every two years and cannot run two races at once.
Politicalhack is right:
SC Senate is up every 4 years, always with the presidential election. O'Dell could run in 2010 with his seat safe should he lose. Just to clarify a little, Waldrep ran for Congress in 2002 for Graham's open seat. He lost that race which had a full field including now Congressman Barrett, Ducworth, & Klauber and continued to serve in the Senate until he retired in 2004.
A good while back, when speculation of Barrett running for governor was starting, the speculation for his congressional seat was centered on Michael Thompson, SC Rep. for Dist. 9 in Anderson & Strom Thurmond, Jr., fmr U.S. attorney from Aiken. The 3rd congressional district barely contains Aiken and supposedly Strom Jr. lives several miles from where the district lines end. He was quoted that he doubted he would move across town just to run.
Recently, the names of Jeff Duncan and Rex Rice have come up. However, I don't think anyone has declared their candidacy as Barrett has only officially announced he was running for governor yesterday.
I wonder if O'Dell will be running in the Republican or Democrat primary?
Billy ODell has done more for our district than his counterpart Kevin Bryant has....so why slam him?
Billy seems to realize that his job is to represent the needs of a geographical part of the state in Columbia. Kevin Bryant seems to feel that his job is to represent the needs of the party to a geographical part of the state..... with kevin, I always feel like I am being preached to and told that we are not worthy enough yet.... so we need to do what he wants us to do.....
talk about having priorities upside down.
You got that right Pal. I don't understand lee-cole's jab at the good senator. There are plenty of politicians in this state that could run on either ticket and many who have. I know O'dell switched parties rather late in the game but he's always been a conservative leaning senator even when he was a Democrat. Some of the johnny-come-latelies to the Republican Party in Anderson have either forgotten history or they choose to ignore it. At one time every body in Anderson County was a Democrat or at least they voted in the Democratic primary. It took almost twenty years for the handful of Republicans in this county to elect a Republican to office--Gene Taylor as sheriff in 1988. The same nut crowd that hounds the likes of Billy O'Dell and other Republicans in this county hounded Taylor. When Taylor left the county, they turned on Preston and his Gang of Five. Now the nut crowd is in control and look where we are.
Those people who worked hard over the last fifteen, twenty, twenty five years like the Seabrooks, the McAbees, and others have been shunned. Those of us who remember when the Anderson County Republican Party could meet in a phone booth think the real Republicans could still meet in that phone booth. The people who are running the Republican Party here are the rinos. They just think they're republicans.
Remember lee-cole, even Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond were Democrats at one time.
As for Kevin Bryant, I guess Bob Waldrep got it right. We are living in Nazi Germany. And Kevin, like Camberlain, has opted for appeasement. It seems to me that when Kevin was chairman of the party, he stood up to the nut jobs that tried to drive Gene Taylor out of the party. I remember several pretty heated meetings with Kevin advocating a big tent policy. Wonder what has changed
At the moment I cannot think of a single SC lawmaker that should be returned to office. Seems our State is in Deep Poo-Poo financially. Who is responsible? I recall the Gov was lamblasted for the squealing pigs he carried into a house full of what? Squealing hogs?
Turn'em all out!
Amen to that, Ed.
The State’s unemployment is the second highest in the nation.
The Governor thinks that private charities, rather than government should carry the responsibility for people in need.
Which is fine in abstract, but…
According to an article in the Washington Post ( yeah, I know JD, that liberal rag ), anyway it said that private charities in Columbia , for example, were unable to keep up with their citizen’s needs.
The Salvation Army ‘s phone lines crashed from calls from people needing help with overdue utility bills, the Family Service Center of S.C. was overwhelmed with people seeking counseling about their delinquent mortgages and the Life Force food pantry ran out of food in less than an hour.
Yet Sanford wants Washington to give him a waiver to use millions of Stimulus dollars, scheduled for new spending, to lower the State’s debt. If he doesn’t get the waiver, he will refuse the offered help.
Time for a change is long overdue, but the State and County Democrats are as disorganized as the National Republicans.
I must repeat, where is the local Democratic outrage over the way the Republicans have screwed up the County Council for years. The Chairman is too busy wearing his non-partisan hat running ALL to tend to the political business he was elected to do .
Pappy,
Alliance for Local Leadership (ALL) is the answer to our political dilemma in Anderson County. We have to be pragmatic and focus our attention on what can make a difference. Anderson County is hopelessly far-right conservative. So, we need to start from the middle and reach to all sides through the power of reason, based on well researched facts.
Pappy,
Alliance for Local Leadership (ALL) is the answer to our political dilemma in Anderson County. We have to be pragmatic and focus our attention on what can make a difference. Anderson County is hopelessly far-right conservative. So, we need to start from the middle and reach to all sides through the power of reason, based on well researched facts.
-art-kaldas
That's fine, my problem is that if it's man in charge is also the Chair of the Dems in Anderson, doesn't that obviously taint it's attempt to be non-partisan ?
Or is it now an arm of the local Democratic Party ?
Art, I beg to disagree with you. What we need here in Anderson is for the real Republicans to take back the party from the Rino's and the LIARS who have abducted the ACRP. Precinct reorganization is Monday night at the civic center. I doubt though that the real Republicans will show up. It will be the same nut jobs that now run the county.
Pappy's right on this one. You can't be both partisan and nonpartisan at the same time. Maybe the Dems need some new blood in their party. We'll send them some of our nut jobs. How about it????
elfiefant,
The Dems need new blood, but instead of nut jobs they need members with cojones.
Absolutely, PAPPY. The Democrat Party already has more than enough nutjobs without cojones. I knew if I stayed here long enough we would find something to agree on. 
That's fine, my problem is that if it's man in charge is also the Chair of the Dems in Anderson, doesn't that obviously taint it's attempt to be non-partisan ?
Or is it now an arm of the local Democratic Party ?-pappy
Pappy,
Mr. Stuart Sprague is a well-educated, experienced man, but he doesn’t seem to be a good fit in Anderson County Democratic Party. He is too moderate to be a Yellow Dog Democrat. So, I hope he will resign his position as ACDP Chairman and focus his attention and energy on ALL.
Absolutely, PAPPY. The Democrat Party already has more than enough nutjobs without cojones. I knew if I stayed here long enough we would find something to agree on. [image]
-jdtippett
Curses, foiled again. . .
Art, I beg to disagree with you. What we need here in Anderson is for the real Republicans to take back the party from the Rino's and the LIARS who have abducted the ACRP. Precinct reorganization is Monday night at the civic center. I doubt though that the real Republicans will show up. It will be the same nut jobs that now run the county.
Pappy's right on this one. You can't be both partisan and nonpartisan at the same time. Maybe the Dems need some new blood in their party. We'll send them some of our nut jobs. How about it????[image]-elliefant
Elliefant,
Unfortunately, moderate Republicans in Anderson County are too wounded to return to ACRP any time soon. They have been accused of unspeakable crimes, just because they wanted to support progress.
Alliance for Local Leadership (All) could be the true Big Umbrella, which will unite all concerned residents against the chaos in our County Government.
Could it be that FITS NEWS already has a candidate for the congressional seat that Folks has been hired to pimp...???
Could it be that original thinking is so absent in the Republican Party (did some say "ditto"?) any more that people only say what they have been fed by media sources?
