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SC New Democrats Call on LG Andre Bauer to Denounce and Fire Consultant Chip Saltsman
By Sam Spence
Date: March 10, 2010
It was reported on Monday by FITSNews.com, that in an attempt to boost support for his campaign for governor, Lt. Governor Andre Bauer has hired GOP political operative Chip Saltsman. That’s the same Chip Saltsman who was forced to drop his bid to become chair of the GOP after it was discovered that he sent out CDs to Republican friends featuring a song entitled, "Barack the Magic Negro" as Christmas presents shortly after President Obama's election—a stunt that even Newt Gingrich called “inappropriate.”
SC New Democrat’s President Phil Noble called on Bauer to denounce Saltsman and fire him from his campaign. And, the SC New Democrats have launched a petition campaign to urge Bauer to do so.
“This is exactly the type of racist political tactics that our state doesn’t need. We are still trying to live down the sad legacy of cheap politics made commonplace by Lee Atwater for decades, but Bauer is continuing in this low tradition,” said Noble. “We need a new politics about bold visions that inspires our people to strive to achieve, not the old racist tactics dredged from the gutter of the past.”
Like most people, we thought we had heard the last of Chip Saltsman in 2008. After all, who would want to work with someone who thought such racist 'humor' was anything but revolting?
“Even mainstream Republicans were embarrassed by Saltsman and they forced him out of the race for chairman of the Republican National Committee,” said Noble. “I would hope that South Carolina Republicans would be as outraged as we are about Bauer importing some one like this to raise poll numbers. Saltsman has no place in South Carolina politics – Democratic or Republican.”
SC New Democrats is an independent reform group founded by former Governor Richard Riley. Find more information at www.scnewdemocrats.org.
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