Ashley Cooper becomes first Dem in LG race

The only-in-South-Carolina-named Ashley Cooper entered the race for lieutenant governor, becoming the first Democrat to run for the office this year. He said that he’s campaigning because the state needs new direction. Granted. Anybody who’s lived through the Sanford years knows that there need to be a few changes.

Here’s the thing, though. What can you really do as lieutenant governor beside administer the Office on Aging? Run for something else, obviously. If he can pull off an upset by beating whoever comes out of the Republican primary, it will give Democrats a little more in the cupboard, which is very empty. We just wish he had the Twitter handle of another Ashley Cooper, this one a girl from Seattle — @ashleykicksass.