South Carolina's Lt. Guv Has His Own Secret

Mike Rogers—who outed Larry Craig and Mark Foley some time before they outed themselves—has now outed South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer. Hah.

The "rumors" have been an open secret in South Carolina for a while, and obviously no one outside of South Carolina would ever care, at all, if it weren't for the fact that the Governor of South Carolina is still Latin Lover-lover Mark Sanford.

So now he definitely can't resign. Closeted gay Republicans have no place in South Carolina politics!

http://www.blogactive.com/

His wife cited this in her divorce papers. He denied it.

Linda Ketner, an out lesbian, who almost defeated a white male incumbent in a 2008 congressional race stated this in an interview. She also outed the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Glenn McConnell and Lindsey Graham.

From the interview:
I asked her if she thought being upfront about being gay, even campaigning with her partner of 9 years, Beth Huntley, impacted the race. "When you lose by such a tight margin, anything could have played a role." In focus groups she found that people didn't care about her personal sexual preference but respected her honesty. "We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably in anyplace in the United States; they're just not out of the closet. We have an awful lot of people in the closet-- Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who's our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor... I obviously lost the conservative, religious crazy vote, but I would have anyway because I'm pro-choice... It got more national attention than it did local attention; it was no secret to anybody around here." She actually won in Charleston County.
http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/30/blue-america-meet-linda-ketner/

There will not be a fundie head in the state left unexploded.

SC with a gay governor, oh my!

reason to oust Sniffling Sanford.

I can't prove it and I have no evidence.

Just something I can't quite explain.

It's obvious to me, just as obvious as Ted Haggard.

As long as it was just gossip, it was politely overlooked. He has had some other problems:

-Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, rushing to the State House Tuesday, was ticketed for reckless driving after police say he drove 60 mph and ran two red lights in downtown Columbia. Four blocks after an officer tried to stop him, Bauer, 34, pulled over on Assembly Street at about noon, police said. He was so aggressive, officer Jon Vanhouten drew his gun and ordered Bauer to raise his hands, a police report said.

-Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer's failure to stop an attempted takeoff where the plane was traveling too slowly was the probable cause of a crash last year that injured him and his co-pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. A national aviation safety expert not connected with the investigation said the NTSB report showed Bauer should have known early on that his single-engine plane needed more speed on the private airstrip near Blacksburg.

-The S.C. Department of Transportation paid Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer significantly more for his land than it paid other property owners who were forced to sell as part of plans to widen Lake Murray Boulevard, according to agency records. In 2004, Bauer was paid $130,000 for a 0.10-acre parcel near Irmo, more than double what the agency initially offered.

-Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer was pulled over - but not ticketed - by S.C. Highway Patrol officers for doing 101 mph on the night of Feb. 25, after using a police radio in his state vehicle to try to communicate with troopers.

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=search&s_search_type=keyword&p_product=CS&p_theme=realcities&s_site=thestate&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=andre%20bauer&p_text_advanced-0=(andre%20bauer)

His judgement has been a little suspect.

Either way, the family values crowd is taking a big blow over this.
They can't elect anyone who lives by their principles without failing said principles. (Tom Coburn doesn't count)

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