Last week I blogged on Duncan Hunter’s new "A Team" in South Carolina.
Well, one week later, Hunter has dismissed the "A Team" – "Why," you ask?
Check out this short AP story, and read it for yourself. In the meantime, if you know someone in South Carolina who would like to head up Congressman Hunter’s efforts in that important battleground state, and they have the ability to think BEFORE they speak, then send them to the Hunter Campaign to sign up!
The story…
Hunter drops two S.C. advisers
Republican presidential candidate and California congressman Duncan Hunter has dropped two top South Carolina advisers a week after they were appointed because of their inflammatory statements about immigrants and religious minorities.
Hunter spokesman Roy Tyler confirmed Thursday that former GOP lieutenant governor candidate Henry Jordan and Horry County Auditor Lois Eargle would no longer serve as campaign co-chairs.
Eargle, speaking Feb. 22 at a news conference, said an illegal immigrant with three children came to her office the day before asking for free legal help for an abused child.
“I told her the best thing for her to do was to get back to Mexico,” Eargle said then.
The following day, Eargle said she was misquoted, but a recording of the news conference proved otherwise. Eargle said she meant to say the woman’s boyfriend had abused her, and the woman came for legal help to get him out of jail.
Jordan, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1996 and last year, said he thinks Hunter did the right thing. Jordan said he didn’t want his comment disparaging Muslims and Buddhists, made while he was a state school board member in 1997, to hamper Hunter’s campaign.
Speaking of Duncan Hunter, he spoke at CPAC today.