S.C. Club for Growth endorses three candidates

The South Carolina Club for Growth has endorsed a third batch of candidates, many of whom are challenging incumbents in Republican primaries.

The group has chosen Tom Davis, former chief of staff for Gov. Mark Sanford, over incumbent Catherine Ceips for a Beaufort County Senate seat, engineer Roger Nutt over incumbent Keith Kelly in a Spartanburg House race and Trey Whitehurst for the Pickens County House seat held by B.R. Skelton.

All three of those incumbents, the group said, scored an "F" on the group's annual legislative report card in 2007.

The S.C. Club for Growth also said it prefers businessman Lee Bright over Rep. Scott Talley for the Spartanburg Senate seat vacated by the retiring John Hawkins, and Joe Bustos over Mike Sottile for retiring Ben Hagood's Charleston County House seat.

Comments

[PB&J]

Looks like they endorsed 5 candidates- bad headline.

Keith Kelly, Scott Talley and their ambulance chasing buddies should be worried. At some point your luck has to run out in buying legislative seats.

[jim]

I'm fed up with a lot of these good ole boy Republican wannabe's who vote like Democrats.

Let's vote out these big spenders and replace them with some real conservatives - people who care about spending our tax dollars on good government rather than on the pork projects they think will help them get re-elected.

Throw the bums out!!

[Jimmy]

Kelly and Talley are some of the best this state has to offer. It's a shame that Gov. Sanford and his lackeys are going after them.