A.G. McMaster (R-SC)
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster “has spent three decades working for the people of South Carolina,” as his Web site tells us, and today he announced that he’s going to be one of the Republicans running to be the state’s next governor.
His opening ad is a back-and-forth of contradiction.
He begins by telling South Carolinians that “[s]o far, under Barack Obama, over 39,000 South Carolinians have lost their jobs” — with no mention of Gov. Sanford’s Republican office, which made a pre-scandal mission out of trying to refuse stimulus money, or the state’s Republican-led statehouse.
McMaster then quickly shifts, noting that he “stands tall for family values” but understands the distrust in government, borne of “too much dishonesty and too many scandals” — with no mention that South Carolina’s primary recent scandal involves its current Republican governor.
And, this is only, as the site proclaims, “Day 1.”
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Chris Geidner is the senior political writer at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found