Indigo Journal

Dwight Drake: Children are not animals

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Tim Kelly in Election 2010

Dwight Drake is the latest Democratic candidate for governor to issue a statement condeming Andre Bauer’s outrageous comments about the poor.

I condemn Bauer’s attack on hungry children because their parents don’t have a job. During his time as lieutenant governor, the state’s unemployment has doubled and is now one of the highest in the nation. This is no time to attack children to pick up a few votes.

Lt. Governor Bauer and Governor Mark Sanford have been neglecting their jobs for years now and the results are impossible to miss. Governor Sanford in his State-of-the-State apologized to the people of South Carolina for abandoning his post, but he and Lt. Governor Bauer should have apologized to the hundreds of thousands who have lost their jobs because they have neglected their jobs for last 8 years while angling for higher office or running off to Argentina. The only jobs Sanford and Bauer have been interested in are their own – while more than 270,000 are out of work.

Lt. Governor Bauer’s comments reflect utter lack of concern the current administration has for the people of South Carolina.

Not a single GOP candidate has stepped forward to challenge Bauer’s statements.