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Mark Sanford’s Liberal Hires Raise Eyebrows

BUT WILL THEY SWAY HIS VOTES?  || By FITSNEWS ||  As regular readers of this website are aware, Amy Lazenby (our former liberal guest columnist) is a solid writer.  Her pieces for FITS were always lucidly written, well-conceptualized and well-researched.  And more often than not they were very convincing. But Lazenby…

BUT WILL THEY SWAY HIS VOTES? 

|| By FITSNEWS ||  As regular readers of this website are aware, Amy Lazenby (our former liberal guest columnist) is a solid writer.  Her pieces for FITS were always lucidly written, well-conceptualized and well-researched.  And more often than not they were very convincing.

But Lazenby is a self-identified liberal … which makes her hiring as the mouthpiece for a guy claiming to be one of the most “conservative” members of Congress a bit surprising.

Or is it?

FITS readers will recall Sanford hired a liberal environmental lawyer to be his chief of staff last year.  Prior to that he hired a liberal supporter of left-leaning South Carolina billionaire Darla Moore to run the day-to-day operations of his Washington, D.C. office.  Now he’s got a liberal managing his media?

What gives?

Is the “Luv Gov” switching parties? 

Obviously we don’t care nearly as much about an elected official’s staffing moves as we do about their record … although Sanford’s “prayerful” decision to vote for U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (who immediately screwed taxpayers over big time on Obama’s executive amnesty) was quite telling.

That was a “gut-check” vote – and Sanford failed it.

Additional “gut-check” votes are coming up … on the crony capitalist Export-Import Bank and “Obamatrade,” to name just a couple … and Sanford will be squarely in the spotlight on both votes.

Will he stand with taxpayers?  Or be pulled further to the left?

We’ll find out soon enough …

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71 comments

Rocky March 13, 2015 at 2:51 pm

You know what they say about liberal girls……….

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shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 3:49 pm

Are you referring to (shocked tone) those girls who don’t shave their armpits or trim their nose hairs?

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aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 5:24 pm

I search for the one’s that do the “Cowgirl” so good that you refer to them as ———————–
ANNIE OAKLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU BETCHA!!!!

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shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 5:46 pm

—– and Rodeo Sex?

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aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm

Educate me……………..

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:58 pm

He is more humor than politics. If you need to be educated….hmmm. What topic are you interested in? Oooops, look like you are a sex ed?

If looking for sex I strong recommend electrolysis ;)

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 7:02 pm

“sex ed”?
How so?

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 8:12 pm

Your interest in Rodeo Sex …. it’s a joke, please laugh!

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 9:00 pm

Kuel. Politics only happens on one day in November every two years.
Sex a little more often.

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 9:26 pm

LOLOLOL- there you go!

shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 7:27 pm

Rodeo Sex: That’s when a guy is having sex with his wife/girlfriend, and just when she starts having her orgasm you hold her tight and whisper in her ear, “you’re almost as good as your sister” —- then you try to hold on for 8 seconds!

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 8:58 pm

True story.
A few decades back, my bride saw fit to interrupt a thoroughly delightful dream by waking me up.
She shouted, “WHO the hell you dreaming about?”
I replied ” ——“, who was her sister.
She calls sis and starts raising hell about my mis directed erotic dream, to which “Big Sis, said,”Ask him I am still as good as I was in school?”
The bride stayed pissed with both of us for a few months.

shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 9:00 pm

pretty good..!!

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 9:01 pm

Both were!

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 10:59 pm

lol

Toyota Kawaski March 16, 2015 at 9:32 am

hey if your going to claim to be from Aiken County the please dont speak like a dam yankee with that You Betcha crap. Take that back on up to Minnesota.

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:46 pm

Well I don’t shave my armpits, what does that say about me? Hmmmmm…..electrolysis?

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aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 7:01 pm

I sincerely hope this indicates your gender to be MALE!!!!!!!!!!

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 8:05 pm

Ha! So you prefer your women with full, stinky armpit? Each to their own :)

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 8:53 pm

I don’t know how this got so screwed up, but “HELL NO!”

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 9:25 pm

LOL – I think there is a lag time in what we see ;)

Toyota Kawaski March 16, 2015 at 9:27 am

change your name transplant.

shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 7:12 pm

I’ll edit my comment, thank you….

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 8:10 pm

LOLOL – no need for edit!

shifty henry March 13, 2015 at 7:24 pm

True Story: One night at John Pauls on St. Andrews Road we met two girls who seemed unusually happy. Chatting it up with them one said she was getting married in three weeks and she had a surprise for her husband. The other girl had been performing electrolysis on the bride-to-be’s pubic area —– creating a lovely valentine heart shape. This was the day it had been completed. Of course we guys were having a hoot about this. A few of us were lucky — she let us peek!

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Toyota Kawaski March 16, 2015 at 9:26 am

edit: for only the 2nd time in my life i saw one at some local Fag Bar on “straight night”. Us guys(?) who hooted on some woodys earlier could not belive that girl showed her christmas to us. Us little bitches were blown away by the site of something we are scared of.

sparklecity March 13, 2015 at 3:23 pm

Fuck that military duty shirking/skip out on South Carolina SOB

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You Know My Name March 13, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Amy Lazenby, despite bitching on here to the contrary, was not a bad writer or obectionable to me. She was head and shoulders above whiney liberal RINO, Taylor Brown. I wish Amy well in her new endeavor. If I think about it, I’ll send Amy a bottle of leather treatment in case she is unfortunate enough to have an encounter with Jenny. Perhaps if she gives Jenny a touch-up, it’ll put Jenny in a better frame of mind.

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yes, we know your name March 13, 2015 at 4:28 pm

“Misogynist”

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:44 pm

I too wish Amy well (glossing over everything else).

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SCBlues March 14, 2015 at 12:55 am

” If I think about it, I’ll send Amy a bottle of leather treatment in case she is unfortunate enough to have an encounter with Jenny. Perhaps if she gives Jenny a touch-up, it’ll put Jenny in a better frame of mind.”
Take a look at the Luv Guv’s picture above this article – and you think Jenny needs a bottle of leather treatment?!?!? And that’s just his face . . . .

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snickering March 14, 2015 at 2:02 pm

You seem to have much knowledge.

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FitsNews March 13, 2015 at 3:46 pm

What gives? Politics is just a money making venture for these people. “Liberal” and “conservatives” are just words they use so idiots will think they have some kind of choice when it comes to elections.

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:43 pm

It’s all about the money and no one dare take money out of politics Somehow money is freedom of speech, but only applies to some?

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Bible Thumper March 13, 2015 at 3:54 pm

It’s not Amy Lazenby’s liberal politics that should raise concern. Instead, it’s her association with this website that makes her totally unfit for this new position. I do hope that she will heavily edit Sanford’s future Facebook posts.

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I wonder March 13, 2015 at 3:56 pm

Why do you care so much? Lazenby got a better job than writing for you and working for Tom Davis and T-Rav, huh? And she got it with your old boss. Sour grapes.

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Makes you wonder March 13, 2015 at 3:57 pm

Didn’t Amy move to Georgia though? Why can’t Sanford find talent in the state he is serving? That is my only complaint.

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aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 5:22 pm

He’s a CARPETBAGGER!
Ya’ think he has any morals?

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Toyota Kawaski March 16, 2015 at 9:15 am

AikenCounty change your dam name. U know good and well you are transplant.

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GrandTango March 13, 2015 at 4:14 pm

No one lasts w/ Sanford for long. Just ask eternal soul-mate Maria Chapur…

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:41 pm

She is not the writer Folks is….he made her look good in print. That is MHO.

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GrandTango March 13, 2015 at 4:02 pm

As long as Sanford gets to suck the teat of the Government Mule…he does noty give a S#!t what you think.

And as long as you keep putting his sorry @$$ in office, he’ll ride the gravy train, and tell you whatever you want to hear…

I just wish a TRUE Conservative would go up against him…How long before FITS would go dark???…

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Uncle Sam March 13, 2015 at 5:22 pm

Did you have to move over so there would be room at the teat of the Government Mule?

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GrandTango March 13, 2015 at 6:34 pm

Cliche idiot much?

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:40 pm

GT we really missed you on the Mia link :(

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GrandTango March 13, 2015 at 7:39 pm

This site misses me on EVERY link, that I don’t grace. It certainly is not as interesting, until I weigh in on it. For sure.

Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 8:09 pm

LOL – I will give you that!

johnq March 14, 2015 at 8:37 am

Overuse of the word much, much.

Much,much,much,much…

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GrandTango March 14, 2015 at 10:14 am

Funny coming from an ABSOLUTE leftwing Dumb@$$ – like you – who has NEVER posted an original thought.

shallow intrigue March 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm

Is Sanford trying to broaden his appeal as former supporters leave his tent?
Typically, a Narcissist’s relationship quality and/or quantity (friends, lovers, family) goes on a downgrade as people see him as his true self. Perhaps Sanford can’t get anyone else on the conservative side to take him seriously anymore? Not a great prospect.

Is Amy good friends with his Georgia gal? Maybe Amy is his cover when he hooks up?

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Uh Huh March 13, 2015 at 4:32 pm

FITS is just mad because he’d still have the job if he hadn’t pushed that woman a while back.

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Will Folks aka Sic March 13, 2015 at 7:54 pm

Ha! +2 for that one …

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Sanfraud boinking GA housewife March 13, 2015 at 5:09 pm

Sanford is a joke & a disaster. Who cares who he puts on his staff?(Maybe Chapur? I keeed)

Seriously, he’s incompetent at almost everything, so why should we be surprised that his hires don’t represent his supposed agenda?

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Anne March 13, 2015 at 7:57 pm

Amazing, absolutely amazing!!
Sanford ran against Bob Peeler for Governor. No matter which one we elected, we would have gotten an adulterer who was involved with a married woman, a lying, cheating, immoral, cretin who ran on their faith and family values!
Then we get Richard Eckstrom another lying, feckless, adulterer and embarrassment!
T-Rav was elected as State Treasurer and within weeks indicted and found guilty of drug trafficking and drug use.
Ken Ard elected Lt Governor and immediately had to resign for Ethics violations!
Bobby Harrell, our House Speaker, indicted on corruption and resigned.
James Metts, longest serving Sheriff in SC. Indicted on bribery and corruption charges and alleged adulterer. Bob and Donna Peeler bragged their affair was “no big deal, Metts had done the same thing and they were in good company”! What? Adultery and the destruction of three families, no big deal, good company?
Our incompetent Governor, unethical, lying Chief Executive! If she was not guilty, why was her affair, the talk of the Capitol in 2007? She was a nobody, do nothing 2nd term House member! On nobody’s radar to be anything more!
What in the Hell are we electing in this State?

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TroubleBaby March 13, 2015 at 9:53 pm

Tired of democracy yet?

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we the people March 13, 2015 at 11:09 pm

Corruption of a Democratic Republic can be corrected. Tyranny, not so much.

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TroubleBaby March 13, 2015 at 11:42 pm

“Corruption of a Democratic Republic can be corrected.”

Do you mean by “corrected”, it’s failure?

we the people March 14, 2015 at 8:16 am

Ha, ha. Hey, I hear Castro’s Cuba and Putin’s Russia would love to have you.

TroubleBaby March 14, 2015 at 10:22 am

Ha, ha. Hey, I hear the asylum is looking for people out of touch with reality and would love to have you.

we the people March 14, 2015 at 2:36 pm

Well no. Seems to me that we the people are waking up to the reality that it is not our Democratic Republic that is bad, but the elites and special interests of both parties that are abusing it. We the people must expose and vote out the corrupt. The Statist approach just increases their largesse while diminishing our freedoms.

TroubleBaby March 14, 2015 at 4:19 pm

“elites and special interests of both parties that are abusing it”

That’s been going on for a long, LONG time. “People” aren’t “waking up” to anything. The cycle will continue as it’s continued for 100+ years, until it collapses in on itself.

The question is when and what form of gov’t will replace it.

aikencounty March 13, 2015 at 10:26 pm

Why, the “Family Values” candidates, of course!

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Bonnie March 14, 2015 at 1:36 pm

All of these people are sickeningly ,pathetic narcissistic.
There will be some hot seats in Hell for these people who tout their Christian faith, use it for political gain and them mock GOD. GOD will not be mocked.
I see some of these around the Capitol and at different functions acting like they are special; when, they are more like that you scrape from your shoes, after detecting the smell of what you have just stepped in.

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Tony March 14, 2015 at 8:12 pm

Netflix has House of Cards, here in SC, we have House of Shit!

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nitrat March 13, 2015 at 6:22 pm

If Amy Lazenby has worked for Mark Sanford, Tom Davis and Thomas Ravenel, she is a Libertarian.
No self-respecting liberal would work for a single one of that bunch. Get real.
If this Libertarian blog identifies her as a ‘liberal’ because it had her write about ‘liberal’ positions similar to Rand Paul joining forces with Cory Booker over medical marijuana and criminal sentencing, it still doesn’t make her a liberal.
The only people stupid enough to fall for that line are the MSM in their never ending quest for a ‘bipartisan’ Republican.

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Tangerine March 13, 2015 at 6:40 pm

Amy is far left of me, she isn’t even a Libertarian to my knowledge. I will say this – she is sincere, well thought out and ambitious. I send my best wishes with her.

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snickering March 14, 2015 at 2:01 pm

Until Sanford secretly admits he went to Clown School and hired their Alumni I’m not surprised, bored maybe, surprised no.

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BIN News March 14, 2015 at 3:00 pm

Notice how sic(k) willie attacks pols who fired him (Sanfraud), rejected his sexual advances (tricky-Nikki) and refuse to laydown to TeaBuggers (Senior SC Senator)?

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TD BFT March 16, 2015 at 5:14 pm

This hire would have nothing to do with Lazenby being a very (very, very) close friend of Tom Davis, would it? You know, Tom Davis, of the Tom Davis’s of the world. I mean, those two parade all over Columbia together during legislative months.

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that's entertainment March 17, 2015 at 8:53 am

Oh Lordy, not another scandal!

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Lone Ranger March 18, 2015 at 7:52 pm

That’s right—you all-day suckers who keep reelecting this
scumbag deserve just what you get

A thug-RINO-Boehner-supporting serial adulterer and liar who’s
only begun to shaft you yet !!!

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