Democratic Senate Candidate Addresses His Past, Critics

Not only does Stamper not have a snowball’s chance in hell, even if the SCDP found a candidate with proper background it wouldn’t matter as far as Graham’s seat anyway.

Both Stamper and the SCDP are living in a fantasy world if they think they are knocking SC’s favorite butt pirate off his perch.

Let’s see, carpet bagger, bogus banker, bogus real estate sales firm CEO, internet hoaxter and web address squatter from the land of grunge, over priced coffee, rain and amorality – looks like the perfect Democrat candidate.

Stamper is so bad that even the politically obtuse folks in the “land of grunge” wouldn’t vote for him.

Stamper whom I’ve known for almost five years, has had two lifelong dreams – to run for (and be elected for!) Congress as two of his family members have done (including his grandfather long-time Boeing President Malcolm Stamper) and to live in South Carolina. Both of these dreams hatched as a college student majoring in Government at Connecticut College, interning for several U.S. Senate candidates and taking trips to the South Carolina coast. Although he was born in WA state, he has lived all over the country on both the east and west coasts and has started (and sold) numerous successful businesses over the course of his entrepreneurial career.

Why are people within his own party focusing on only one of those business, that, of the 37 states it operated in, resulted in a war between attorneys about the very vague interpretation of securities regulations? SEC regulations were not clear about exemptions for certain short-term products – it is really the attorneys who wrote the original offering documents that are at fault in my view. Or perhaps it is the SEC for not making their regulations more clear so that any attorney would be able to interpret them as intended. More than anything that experience of having to accept a plea because there were no additional funds to continue defending himself and his clients, has made him a stronger EVEN MORE VIABLE candidate who now feels strongly about the need to reform vague, complex laws and regulations… our tax code perhaps?

Although innocent, does pleading to a charge due to his attorney’s misinterpretation of legal regulations make him any less viable of a candidate than others? Is choosing to not fight further for his innocence worse or better than other politicians in office who knowingly broke the law, but were not caught or charged? Take a politician who may have used drugs at some point in his or her lifetime. Were they knowingly breaking the law? And if they had been charged whether innocent or not, would that have made them a non-viable candidate? There are several President in our past that would fall under this category.

There is a reason why our constitution does not prohibit those who might have plead to a charge from running for office. Our justice system is far from perfect and it is important to examine the circumstances that lead to Jay’s deciding to accept this charge and give up his defense to use his own funds to honor his commitment to his investors.

I contend that he is courageous for putting his life under scrutiny by the public, having to explain and defend a situation that happened long ago, and of course for working tirelessly for the ideals he believes in.