Tom Davis goes back to the Howard Rich trough
Oh, my. We’ll never forget when Sen. Tom Davis gave us this regarding Gov. Mark Sanford taking on members of his own party in the 2008 primaries:
To achieve the goal of defeating targeted legislators, the proposal puts forth an “ideal list” for a “core council” staff. And in a part of the document noted as “sensitive,” the proposal calls for a direct link to the governor’s office that can’t be ignored.
Sanford Chief of Staff Davis appears third from the top of the list, and the proposal recommends his duties in the effort as “research” and as the person who should be in charge of a “contract for S.C.”
Davis said that he has not seen a legislative hit list and believes Sanford wouldn’t be a part of such an effort. “I’ve never seen any sort of a document, or any sort of a briefing on a hit list,” Davis said. “I can’t speak for the governor, but I’d be extremely surprised if the governor has met with somebody to go over a hit list. All the governor has ever talked about doing is advocating particular issues.”
Then Davis led the press conference for said contract a few months later. Interesting.
Thus far, he’s raised $146,209.23, and expended $146,219.14. He has $197.45 on hand. That’s not the interesting part. What is, is that he’s already feeding at the trough provided by now-Philadelphia-based Howard Rich, who seems to think it’s his responsibility to buy every state legislature up for grabs.
According to the latest disclosure report, Davis got $10,000 from Rich shell corporations. Get ready, boys and girls. It seems Herr Rich isn’t done with South Carolina yet.
