According to Weiner, Rogers has previously outed Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida).
Democratic candidates for governor called on Bauer to apologize for equating the poor to stray animals, and Bauer did, subsequently, agree the metaphor was badly worded. Yet, in a January 23, 2010 interview with The State, Bauer said the uproar over his comments doesn't change the fact that South Carolina needs to have an honest conversation about the cycle of government dependency among its poorest residents.
In a January 23, 2010 New York Magazine news and opinion piece, Lindsay Robertson wrote: "Let's be absolutely clear, here: Bauer's remarks are not appalling because they're offensive or "un-PC" or a Biden-esque "oops!" They're reprehensible because this man who currently holds office in South Carolina and is making a bid to run the state is demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that he doesn't possess even the very most basic understanding of the biggest problem in his state, which is poverty. Deep, ingrained, historical-legacy style poverty. The kind of poverty where, forget about college, nobody in your family has ever owned a telephone or a car or a TV or known how to read. The kind of rural poverty that at its worst is invisible to most Americans, because the only way to see it is to accidentally get off I-95 at a no-gas-station exit and drive twenty or so miles from the highway. That is what this still, in 2010, very segregated state is dealing with. And then their Lt. Governor said something even worse:"
Like former President George W. Bush, Andre Bauer was a varsity cheerleader in college. Should a conclusion then be made that male cheerleaders make poor leaders, and, if so, should be outlawed from ever running for any elective office? Or that all Republican politicians should be required to wear duct tape over their mouths when in public?
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