One of South Carolinians for Responsible Government‘s henchmen launched another attack on former Rep. Bob Walker recently, but the fact is that Walker, who lost by a scant 19 votes, was screwed over by the people running his race.
Walker’s firm was Starboard Communications. As we discovered when researching “the hit list,” Starboard was one of the main firms that was supposed to be helping out. It turns out that Josh Gross, when he was at Starboard last year, created the mail pieces for each of the Sandlapper Group‘s candidates. Sandlapper candidates were all a part of the hit list proposal, and the two people who founded the firm in Nov. 2007, Taft Matney and Chad Connelly, were in deep with Gov. Mark Sanford‘s front groups.
So, Gross was doing the mail for Walker’s opponent, current Rep. Joey Millwood (who has $2,431 on hand). While we won’t say that Starboard threw Walker’s race, it seems rather odd that the same firm would be working both sides of a very contentious race. Certainly, if we were advising a candidate, we would suggest that they not go with Starboard, for the off chance that the firm would also be doing work for that candidate’s opponent.
That’s the real issue, here. We’re waiting for Starboard, Sandlapper, Millwood, Gross and their apologists to admit to what we all know is true.
