More South Carolina losers in Nov. 4 election

Tom Ervin. This Democrat
thought he could buy votes.
It was a $4 million ego trip
that likely did more damage
to his ego than good.

Can't buy me love!

Petition candidate for governor Tom Ervin got .92 percent (less than one percent) of the vote in last Tuesday's election.

While many in the public have an idea that you can buy elected office, Ervin's run for Governor would dispel that myth.

Ervin, a rich trial lawyer, spent more than $4 million. The self-called “Independent Republican” bashed Republican Gov. Nikki Haley incessantly. Ervin finally quit a week before the election and revealed his true colors, as many suspected all along. Ervin endorsed fellow Democrat Vincent Sheheen.

Democrat loses ground

In 2010, Haley defeated Sheheen 51 to 47 percent. In 2014 she took 56 percent of the electorate and Sheheen 41 percent. That is a rout, a shellacking and a landslide. 

What happened since 2010? The  Democrat Party ruled on a federal level and obviously  damaged the brand substantially. 

The whipping has Democrat Party mouthpiece, The State newspaper, moralized, surmising that it could take a decade to recover from this beating. Truth is: it may just take getting in touch with REAL South Carolinians, instead of pandering to more-and-more absurd special interests. 

Jenny Sanford's charcoal touch

Another loser last Tuesday was Jenny Sanford, and the woman she shot an ambiguous bash “Mark” commercial for. Sanford is the wife of former Liberal-Tarian Gov. Mark Sanford. And the Sanfords have been feuding publicly for a couple of years. Both carry themselves as elitists, but are a bit trashy and tacky of late. 

Democrat S.C. Secretary of State candidate Ginny Deerin became a cause-celeb of the media, and she was considered a real upset chance. Reality: Derrin got 40 percent of the vote after the Democrat embraced by Jenny Sanford.

Sanford seems to have the charcoal touch, everything she touches crashes and burns.

Lexington County

Lexington County shot down a county-council backed penny sales tax increase that would have cost voters more than $300 million over eight years. The vote against was 70-to-30. 
Lexington County Council, which claims to be Republican spent more than $450,000 to push the tax. You have to wonder if some of the council members may now have targets on their backs for de-election, the next time around. It was a big loss for tax-and-spenders claiming to be Republicans, but acting like Democrats. 
A $225 million facilities upgrade bond referendum passed in Lexington School District 2. That district covers Cayce, West Columbia and Springdale. Seems voters trust Lexington 2 more than they trust county Council. 
In Lexington County, the most Conservative-voting, Haley got 64 percent of the vote to Sheheen's 32 percent. Lexington County had 65 percent of its voters, vote a straight GOP ticket.