Mark Sanford’s Family Actually Owns a Plantation

By Jeff Quinton on May 4, 2013 No Comments

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Alexis Levinson of the Daily Caller wrote about comments made by SCDP Chairman Dick Harpootlian at last night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Columbia, South Carolina. Vice President Joe Biden was the keynote speaker.

In the article Levinson wrote:

Four days before former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch face off in a race to become the next U.S. representative from South Carolina’s First District, state Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian promised to send Sanford “back to the plantation.”

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“We’re not the fools you think we are,” Harpootlian said, “and we’re gonna send Mark Sanford back to the plantation, or Argentina or wherever.”

Of course, people involved in South Carolina politics already have common knowledge of something Levinson apparently did not know (since it’s nowhere in her article.) The Sanford family owns Coosaw Plantation (pictured above) in Beaufort County. In fact, they got a $2.5 million conservation easement on the property last year. I know Sanford always used to refer to it as “the farm” when he was running for Governor and in office and maybe he still does. Laurin Manning recently blogged at HuffPo about some details of the Sanford divorce settlement that reference Coosaw Plantation.00

Levinson also reported:

Shortly thereafter, Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat who is challenging Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, and who narrowly lost to her in 2010, promised to send his political opponent, “back to wherever the hell she came from.”

However, Twitchy reports that Chris Moody of Yahoo News tweeted that those comments were also made by Harpootlian.

I would tend to believe Harpootlian made those comments, and not Sheheen.

UPDATE: Levinson tweets to me that the story has been corrected to say Harpootlian made the comment. Sure, typing “Vince Sheheen” instead of “Harpootlian” is a “typo”

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Steve King not running for Iowa Senate Seat

By Jeff Quinton on May 3, 2013 No Comments

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It was reported yesterday that Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey announced he would not run and he was hoping King would run. Earlier in the week, King was reportedly undecided as late as Wednesday. It was also reported that King had hired the same fundraiser used by Ted Cruz.

From The Washington Post story on Northey linked above:

Aside from Northey, Rep. Tom Latham and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds have ruled themselves out of the Republican race. Former U.S. attorney Matt Whitaker, state Sen. Brad Zaun and Secretary of State Matt Schultz are possible Republican candidates.
On the Democratic side of the race for retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin’s seat, Rep. Bruce Braley (D) is the likely nominee.

This news breaks via Twitter tonight:

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Magic Johnson SWATted

By Jeff Quinton on May 3, 2013 No Comments

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TMZ

Magic Johnson has just been swatted … but this one is RADICALLY different from all the others … because the LAPD is clearly hip to the prank now … TMZ has learned.

Someone placed the electronic 911 call within the last hour … claiming multiple shots were fired at Magic’s L.A. home. We’re also told the caller claimed the shooters were holding someone hostage.

As for the LAPD’s response … it was anemic compared to prior 911 incidents. We’re told only a few patrol cars responded. There were no choppers, no SWAT team, no guns-drawn maneuver.

Apparently the LAPD has now figured out the markers that distinguish swatting from the real deal.

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Breaking: U.S. believes Israel has conducted air strike in Syria

By Jeff Quinton on May 3, 2013 No Comments

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Reuters

The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, CNN reported on Friday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials.

CNN quoted the officials as saying Israel most likely conducted the strike “in the Thursday-Friday time frame” and that Israel’s warplanes did not enter Syrian airspace.

It said the officials did not believe Israel had targeted a chemical weapons facility.

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The CNN report said that during the time frame of the attack, the United States had collected information showing Israeli warplanes overflying Lebanon.

Israel has made clear in the past that it might intervene to prevent Syrian advanced weapons falling into the hands of militant groups, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war withIsrael in 2006.

In January this year, Israel bombed a convoy in Syria, apparently hitting weapons destined for Hezbollah, according to diplomats, Syrian rebels and security sources in the region.

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Report: 3 More Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Arrested

By Jeff Quinton on May 1, 2013 No Comments

UPDATE:
CNN reporting that two Kazakhstani students will be charged with obstruction of justice with a court appearance later today. They went to college with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at UMass-Dartmouth. No information on the 3rd suspect is available according to CNN. The two students have already been looked at for visa violations.

Also via CNN: 3rd suspect is a US citizen, not the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The charges against the two student visa violators are making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

WBZ reports two names: Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev.

The US citizen will reportedly just be charged with making false statements.

Fox News reporting the two students may have gone to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s apartment and removed computers and tried to dispose of them.

CNN reporting the students arrested lied about knowing about the whereabouts of the Tsarnaev brothers as well as dumping computers and other items in a dumpster.

CNN reporting Robel Phillipos is the third student arrested today (the U.S. citizen.)

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