JAM for Tuesday 4-22-08 -- SANFORD FOR VEEP?

Hello Again –

The buzz today is about the Wall St. Journal article getting attention directed at Governor Mark Sanford for a possible VP candidate.

Here are the links to the audio track and the text document:

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama04-22-08.mp3

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt04-22-08.doc

“JUST A MINUTE”
SANFORD FOR VEEP?

Just A Minute – Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal recounted an hour long discussion between South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and, Brendan Miniter, a Journal editor about a possible Vice Presidential candidacy.

Sanford has not even been hinting he wanted the job or indicated he thinks he is in the running for it.

Miniter said what brings him to Columbia is the Governor’s record number of vetoes and small but significant victories demonstrating a more successful way of dealing with a sometime recalcitrant state legislature.

Miniter noted Sanford’s success creating a statewide Charter School district and the dint he made in legislative pork spending with his two-pigs maneuver a couple of years back. The important thing – which he said is often overlooked – is that both legislative and bureaucratic spending that year was markedly reduced. “I won...” he says without braggadocio.

Probably South Carolina is going to vote Republican anyway in light of present candidates – so balancing the ticket isn’t the prime motive. Perhaps what might be called the “quiet man” theme would prove most attractive to thinking voters.

<> I’m Jack Buttram
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