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Governor Sanford Responds to DNC Attack Ad web posted March 17, 2009 COLUMBIA – Governor Mark Sanford issued the following statement Monday on the Democratic National Committee attack ad that began airing in South Carolina this week. The ad by the DNC berates Gov. Snaford for refusing to accept federal funds that would impose greater unfunded mandates on the state by the Obama Administration. "Over the past year, candidate Obama promised a break from 'politics as usual' - something that I joined with millions of Americans in indeed hoping for. I did so because my entire time in public life has reinforced how needed change is from 'politics as usual,' and because for better or worse I have always tried to debate ideas on their merits. "My opposition to the stimulus bill was based on the merits as I saw them and has been well-chronicled, but rather than engaging our administration in that debate, Obama's Democratic National Committee instead chose to launch a political attack ad against us for not supporting the stimulus plan exactly as the Obama administration saw fit. What may fit in one state may not fit in another, and accordingly I think tailoring stimulus responses makes sense. "Equally disturbing is the fact that this ad was launched before the White House even bothered to respond to our request to use just one quarter of the available stimulus money to our state to pay down a portion of our high state debt. This still means a $2.1 billion spending windfall would come to our state - and one has to ask isn't there a point when enough is enough in spending money we don't have? I don't think this approach of targeting ads against anyone who sees an issue a little differently represents the kind of so-called 'change' many people were voting for in November. "In his inaugural, President Obama proclaimed 'an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.' It's in that spirit that I'd respectfully ask him to end this ad, as it shatters the idea of change he so well articulated this fall - and to ask his Democratic National Committee to put an end to this mudslinging and get back to an honest debate about the future of our country." The ad can be viewed Below. U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement last week in response to the Democratic National Committee's decision to inundate SC airwaves with negative ads attacking our Governor Mark Sanford. "After years of losing elections here, the DNC should know better than anyone that spending lots of money to try and brainwash SC voters with misleading ads will not work. South Carolinians are worried about the economy and their jobs but they have little faith in Nancy Pelosi's desire to spend our way back to economic success. Instead of wasting George Soros' fortune bashing conservatives like Mark Sanford who are right to question further deficit spending, maybe the DNC should focus on some other state where they have more friends." South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney) released the following statement in response to the new Democratic National Committee ad attacking Governor Mark Sanford: "Washington liberals are exploding our budgets, growing government by leaps and bounds, and putting us even more in debt to nations like China. Now they are attacking anyone with an opposing idea. We may have our disagreements as Republicans, but we won’t take having extreme liberals telling us what's best for South Carolina taxpayers. Maybe they should spend less time attacking our Governor and more time explaining how we are going to pay down all this debt they're creating. " © Copyright 2009
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