As I questioned Gov. Mark Sanford's pending decision not to take the economic recovery funds offered to the Palmetto State last month, Rep. Ted Vick and I begged him to leave his multi-million dollar Sullivan's Island home, and we asked him to look around the rural parts of South Carolina where federal aid is needed.
Apparently he did not take our advice, opting instead to base his decision on what will get him closer to his party's presidential nomination and endear him in the hearts of the Cato and Goldwater institutes.
Since being elected to Congress in 1994, Mark Sanford has made a political career out of saying "no." He was nicknamed "Dr. No" by some of his colleagues in Washington and he carried that same mentality with him to the Governor's Mansion in Columbia.
Since his election in 2002, South Carolina's economy has tanked. For nearly that entire time, the former Goldman Sachs employee who claims to know so much about economics has presided over a state that has hovered at 48th and 49th in the nation's employment statistics.
During this same time we have watched our state's commerce chiefs come and go.
As more and more South Carolinians find themselves out of work, employers coming to the Southeast continue to ignore South Carolina for our friends in Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama, and just last year, Volks-wagen passed on us and went to Chattanooga.
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