{"id":1618,"date":"2009-05-28T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T19:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2009-05-28T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T19:07:37","slug":"mr-speaker-welcome-to-the-south-carolina-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/mr-speaker-welcome-to-the-south-carolina-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Speaker, welcome to the South Carolina Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Back in 1994, after voting absentee, I was in Atlanta on the day after the election. I remember reading in the paper that the Republicans had just taken control of the United States House of Representatives and have elected Rep. Newt Gingrich as the new speaker. I will never forget that day. I don\u2019t know where I was when I learned that the Democrats took control of Congress as I am trying to forget that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">It was my honor to introduce former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to the Senate last Thursday (05.21.09). I appreciate the staff of Governor Sanford for asking me to host the speaker.<br \/>\nL-R Gingrich, Sen. Hugh Leatherman, myself\u00a0<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1641\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/mr-speaker-welcome-to-the-south-carolina-senate\/bryant-leatherman-speaker1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SP550UZ&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1242872243&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.68&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bryant-leatherman-speaker1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1641\" title=\"bryant-leatherman-speaker1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"bryant-leatherman-speaker1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bryant-leatherman-speaker11.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1994, after voting absentee, I was in Atlanta on the day after the election. I remember reading in the paper that the Republicans had just taken control of the United States House of Representatives and have elected Rep. Newt Gingrich as the new speaker. I will never forget that day. I don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-q6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}