Atty. Gen. Henry McMaster officially filed his papers to run for governor on Monday, making official what has been assumed in South Carolina political circles for months. And months. And months.
According to his initial report, S.C.’s “Macker” has $630 in his campaign account, but it should be assumed that he will be moving his $1 million+ over the the gubernatorial effort relatively soon. The only interesting contribution comes from the College of Charleston’s John Crotts‘ boat company. You’d think that Henry Mac would indulge us with better fundraising sources, considering the stories we’ve heard on background. Guess not.
Already, the campaign has had a false start. McMaster’s consultant’s blog (which is run by seriously one of the most inept people we’ve ever met in politics, and that’s saying something, considering we know people in the S.C. Democratic Party leadership) wrote:
“I am proud to announce Henry will be signing the Americans for Tax Reform’s No Tax Pledge today,” McMaster spokesman Brad Henry said Friday. “As we all know, lower taxes create economic bounty.”
McMaster is the first gubernatorial candidate — announced or unannounced — to sign the ATR taxpayer protection pledge, which requires “candidates and incumbents [to] solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases.”
Oh, really? Because when it came to the pledge to conservative activist Grover Norquist’s group, this is what we saw — you know, on the ATR site:
Two Republican candidates in the South Carolina gubernatorial race, Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (R-03) and Atty. Gen. Henry McMaster (R-SC), signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge this week. The Pledge commits signers to, “oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes.” To date, 34 U.S. Senators and 172 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed the Pledge. Additionally, seven governors and over 1,100 state legislators have signed the Pledge.
That was posted on July 31, when the kid who thinks it’s fun to get wasted and roll over people’s feet wrote that McMaster was the only “announced or unannounced” candidate to sign that pledge. Man, oh, man. It’s 10 months out from the primary and McMaster’s joke of a staff is already making mistakes. We can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
Oh, and before McLovin accuses us of being on the take from Barrett, he should probably make a few phone calls. You see, we’re not getting paid by any gubernatorial campaign. We just have a problem with idiots getting in positions of power. Like the guy who runs a political blog and has a fake driver’s license from Hawai’i.
