The man on the left is Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina. Do you know what he did in 2004? After the Republican-lead state legislature over-rode 115 of his line item vetoes of pork-barrel spending, the next day, he marched into the legislative chamber carrying two pigs under his arms!
He set them down on the floor and one of them crapped right there!
The Republican leaders were outraged, claiming that the governor was out of his mind, that he no longer could lead, and he hadn't taken his medicine. The people of South Carolina, though, got the point! He was re-elected in a landslide in 2006.
His office in Columbia, SC has lowered the governor's employee payroll by $7 million. He has made it $100 million cheaper to run the Columbia Government over all. Before being governor, he was a representative in Congress in Washington DC. There, he slept every night on a cot in his office, and reduced the cost of his staff, saving tax-payers millions. He was known for not backing down on cutting waste.
He's the one for me. I'm voting for him. Of course, as of now, he's not running. Nobody knows him on a national level. But I'm voting for him anyway.
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Tell you what, anyone who fights the out of control pork spending gets my support, for the most part.
Another great opponent of pork barrel spending is Congressman (R) Mark Flake from Arizona. (http://www.jeffflake.com)
We need more people like him in office.
He sounds dreamy! Check this out
www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html
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