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Sanford doesn't see black candidates winning (SC) statewide offices
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Edited | Joshua L. May 11, 2005 07:09pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | May 11, 2005 07:00pm |
| Description | COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Gov. Mark Sanford said last week in a television interview it might be a long time before a black candidate is elected to statewide office in South Carolina, raising a few eyebrows, but prompting a few amens from black leaders.
In an interview that aired Sunday on a Columbia television station, Sanford was asked about blacks winnings statewide office. "Can I interject?" Sanford asked, interrupting the show's host. "I think there never will be," Sanford said.
"You said you don't think there ever will be?" asked Craig Melvin, who hosts "Awareness" on WIS-TV.
"In the foreseeable future," Sanford said. It hasn't happened in the last 100 years and "that is tragic," said the governor, who is a white Republican.
The only thing that could change that record is allowing governors to appoint some of the people who now are elected to statewide offices, Sanford said. |
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