Thursday, May 27th, 2004
Pork and Barrel
Governor Brings Pigs To Statehouse; Lawmakers Unamused
Gov. Mark Sanford carried two piglets under his arms to the House chamber today to protest fast action by lawmakers to override his budget vetoes.
The pigs names? Why “Pork” and “Barrel” of course!
Now this is a guy who sounds like an old-style Republican for smaller government. His actions are enough to make a Libertarian proud!
“It’s illegal in South Carolina to run a deficit and if we’ve got cold, hard cash available to take care of it, I think we have a constitutional requirement to pay it off rather than pay for pork projects around the state,” Sanford said.
Maybe lawmakers should spend more time cuting the budget and less time being outraged!
Inside the House chamber, representatives were outraged.
What others are saying
- Pigs vivify Sanford’s opinion: ‘Pork won’
- 105 Sanford vetoes overridden
- Legislators deal with clog of Sanford’s budget vetoes
- Sanford angry House members speeding through veto overrides
- State budget final as Senate finishes overriding vetoes
Guess the Senate didn’t get the message “Pork” and “Barrel” brought to them.
Tags: guess, house chamber, house members, lawmakers, legislators, libertarian, overrides, piglets, pigs, pork projects, sanford, senate, state, state budget, veto, mark sanford
4 Comments
May 27th, 2004 at 22:48
Lets see, Sanford has hacked Republicans, Harrell and Kuhn. Maybe he should switch parties to the Libertarian party. After all, the Libertarians may like him as the Republicans are plotting his demise.
May 28th, 2004 at 08:32
There is something afoot that is not known to the voting populous. The legislature hates Sanford, I know part of it has to do with the PR war he has waged against them and another part is the enormous egos these elected folks choose to carry. Their spending ( the legislature) is nothing short of outrageous. Look back ten years ago at the size of the State budget in comparison to today. The legislature likes to spend our money short and simple. In the gubernatorial primary I did not vote for Sanford, much preferred another candidate. To this day I still am not terribly found of Sanford but I have less affection for the legislature at this particular moment. Maybe he is winning the PR war?
June 23rd, 2004 at 13:07
[...] the South Carolina
legislature its Porker of the Month for June 2004.
I wrote about Gov. Sanford’s stunt
last month and was the one who nominated the SC legisl [...]
July 3rd, 2004 at 01:50
[...] in recent
memory. He impressed fiscal conservative and a few Libertarians
like myself by fighting with the legislature over the budget. He won’t back down from a fig [...]