South Carolina GOP Chairmen: Jim DeMint is Like a Wealthy Jew
Two county chairmen of the South Carolina Republican Party, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr., have an editorial in yesterday’s edition of the Times and Democrat newspaper defending Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
But with an antisemitic defense like Merwin and Ullmer’s, who needs critics?
DeMint watches out for all of us.
Recently your newspaper published a letter from state Rep. Bakari Sellers attacking U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and his opposition to congressional earmarks.
There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves. By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.
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− Edwin O. Merwin Jr., Chairman, Bamberg County Republican Party, Denmark
− James S. Ulmer Jr., Chairman, Orangeburg County Republican Party, North
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