Why, you'd probably obey the law.
But that's because you're not Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina - a big Republican. He thinks laws are just (to use Bush's words) "damn pieces of paper."
Recently, South Carolina lawmakers passed a law directing Sanford to ask for stimulus money to soften school budget woes.
But Sanford has announced that he's going to ignore this new law.
Lovely. South Carolina has a governor who not only breaks laws but brags about it in plain sight.
What's more, the law is needed to avoid firing teachers and raising college tuition. So by disobeying the law, Mark Sanford isn't even acting in the public's interests!
Can't they impeach him?
This follows Sanford filing a frivolous lawsuit against the legislature because it dared to override his veto of this law.
Mark Sanford has truly established himself as one of the biggest clowns in American politics today.
(Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/740168.html;
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10389561&nav=0RaPa9u0)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
South Carolina guv: Laws? What laws?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Tim, does South Carolina's constitution call for the executive branch to be separate from the legislative branch? If so, the legislature can't order the governor to do something.
ReplyDeleteSeparation of powers doesn't give the governor the right to break the law.
ReplyDeleteBy that thinking, all he has to do is issue an executive order for the legislature to repeal that law and any other laws he doesn't like.
ReplyDeleteNo. He cannot.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever study political science in college? I did.
Funny you should ask. I majored in political science, and yes, I took high-level constitutional law.
ReplyDeleteThen how is the South Carolina legislature breaking the law? It isn't.
ReplyDeleteIt is presumably violating the state's constitution, if the constitution separates the legislative and executive branch of government.
ReplyDelete