{"id":1740,"date":"2009-06-23T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2009-06-23T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:20:53","slug":"ryberg-on-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/ryberg-on-sanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryberg on Sanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">June 23, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><strong>Statement on Governor Sanford\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Senator Greg Ryberg (R-Aiken) today said that the man-made tempest surrounding the recent vacation of Governor Sanford is \u201cnothing more than an intra-party political fight driven by the political enemies of Governor Sanford.\u201d Senator Ryberg said that, \u201cThe only people worried about the fact that Governor Sanford went hiking without an armed guard remain well-documented Republican political adversaries of the governor seeking to embarrass and discredit the governor. These same people fiddled during the last six months while South Carolina burned. Governor Sanford spotlighted their dereliction and now the defenders of the status quo are lashing back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Senator Ryberg noted that Governor Sanford was on a trade mission to Estonia at the time of the 2007 Charleston Sofa Superstore fire and that his office immediately located him to notify him of the tragedy and get him home in time for the memorial ceremonies. \u201cI am confident,\u201d Senator Ryberg said, \u201cthat if they can contact him in Eastern Europe then they can also contact him in a national park a few miles from here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Senator Ryberg also noted that, \u201cThe loudest yelps of concern for gubernatorial authority come from the same people who take every opportunity to destroy that authority. The notion that these people worry about whether or not Governor Sanford needs to sit by the phone waiting to wield his nickel\u2019s worth of power only adds insult to injury.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Senator Ryberg added that, \u201cWhat is this bizarre obsession with security? It reeks of elitism\u2014one that pervades South Carolina government at all levels. South Carolina legislators should spend less time worrying about bodyguards and more time worrying about the double-digit unemployment and reckless spending that really matters to the people who pay for the perks and status symbols of the legislators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u00a0 Statement on Governor Sanford\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Senator Greg Ryberg (R-Aiken) today said that the man-made tempest surrounding the recent vacation of Governor Sanford is \u201cnothing more than an intra-party political fight driven by the political enemies of Governor Sanford.\u201d Senator Ryberg said that, \u201cThe only people worried about the fact that [&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-1740","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-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}