House Speaker David Wilkens, the governor's point man in the House, is said to have nixed Hallman because his environmental concerns make big businesses uncomfortable. Both parties are suffering from the loss of intelligent and independent representatives. One can only wonder if the governor's gang isn't using some kind of IQ cap as criteria for joining their club. Word has reached us from Greenville Precinct 28, home of Bob Jones University, that God is a Republican. It apparently took years for Albert Allen, pastor of White Oak Baptist Church, to come to this conclusion, as his church has been used for over a decade as a polling place for both Democrats and Republicans.
State law requires the parties to hold organizational meetings at the same place people vote.
On March 6, Allen finally realized that God is partisan, and he rose up and drove the Democrats from his sanctuary. I've never been thrown out of a church before. The story started in February when The State ran a story about a lesbian wedding in Columbia. Some 200 letters to the editor and a lot of pressure later, publisher Fred Mott called a meeting and told the news staff that he was going to write an editorial apologizing for running the piece, a move that is unprecedented in newspapers. The sentiment in the news room was one of betrayal.