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S.C. Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell said Tuesday he won’t run for governor in two years, after all.

The Charleston Republican had been among a handful of prominent politicians considered possible candidates in the budding contest to succeed Gov. Mark Sanford.

But Harrell said Tuesday he thinks he can do more good continuing to serve as Speaker.

The Post and Courier

So Harrell was the party’s heir apparent to Mark Sanford? What a joke! Harrell’s fiscal restraint leaves a lot to be desired. I am somewhat amused that he claims he can do more good as Speaker, as if somehow the House under his leadership has been all that great. Harrell’s House is full of big spending RINOs masquerading as conservatives at election time. Here is a perfect critique of Harrell’s leadership:

After all, it wasn’t us here at FITSNews who raised state spending by 41% over the last three years, appointed an anti-business Democrat to the State Supreme Court, provided only $81 million in job-creating tax relief out of a $1.5 billion budget surplus, pumped another billion dollars into the nation’s worst education system over the past four years (only to remain last in the nation in SAT scores and graduation rates), presided over dwindling income levels and a 5.5% unemployment rate and fought tooth and nail to preserve an 1895 system of government that’s the functional equivalent of racing a “Model T” in the Indianapolis 500.

Nope, it was “Republican” leaders like Bobby Harrell….

Read on at FITS News. He said it all better than I can.

South Carolina can do better than Bobby Harrell.

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