Sanford: It’s okay not to pay your taxes
And once again Joel Sawyer proves that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
In case you haven’t been paying attention for the last few months, Lee Bright and his Charleston puppet master Chad Waldorf have been hitting Scott Talley pretty hard for being a trial attorney, ignoring the fact that Talley is also a small businessman. Talley has counter punched by hitting Bright’s business record, showing that he has had a few tax liens for not paying worker’s comp and business taxes. In today’s SHJ, the Governor’s Office took up for Bright’s inability to pay his taxes “On Time.” Get it? “On Time?” Bright’s business is named “On Time Trucking.”
Ok, maybe we aren’t that funny. Here’s some of the SHJ article:
Sanford, who came to town Monday to publicly endorse Bright, continued that show of support in a TV ad. Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said the governor was not concerned about the liens or he wouldn’t have endorsed Bright.
“In the case of that particular issue (the workers’ compensation lien), Lee is appealing — availing himself of an option any business owner has a right to avail themselves of,” Sawyer said. “If after the appeal he was ordered to pay and declined to pay, that would be a problem.”
Sawyer also questioned the timing of publicizing the liens.
“They have been public record for several months now,” Sawyer said. “You have to ask why they’re coming up now just days before the runoff.”
Hey Joel…guess you missed his hit a couple weeks back.
Does anyone else feel like our Governor’s office has become one big consulting firm?
June 20th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I am the Lorax, I’m down on my knees
Slurping up loads of Chad Walldorf’s disease
Spitting it out all over the state
Endorsing “each ‘n’ Averyt” Club For Growth candy-date
From Fifth Avenue, N.Y. they watch me destroy
every bit of state gov’mint like a good puppet boy
Espousing the true Libertarian way, running rough-shod over the poor, the old, and the blacks every day
So help me on Tuesday by voting for Bright
Mr. Rich and his friends paid for his seat fair and right
And I can’t let them down or my wife’ll have my balls
But she’s too busy hanging posters of Grover Norquist on our walls
I was once a little-known Congressman from S.C.
But now look at what politics has done to me
Lying to everyone for my New York paymaster
But it’s what I gotta do to get that U.S. Senate seat faster.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
High fives for the expose.
The Lorax guy is pretty funny - I didn’t know that Warren hired a poet laureate. Certainly rounds out the team.
Scott Talley is a small businessman like Jake Knotts has a moral compass.