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Thread #127017 Message #2828956
Posted By: Ebbie
03-Feb-10 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Poor
Subject: RE: BS: The Poor
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said Monday night that he regrets comparing those who live off government assistance to "stray animals."
In an interview Monday night with POLITICO, Bauer defended the sentiment of what he was trying to say last Friday, but rejected the metaphor he used that landed him in hot water.
Bauer – one of the frontrunners in the state's GOP gubernatorial primary – said during a town hall event focused on reducing the number of South Carolinians on government assistance that "my grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed."
"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply," he said.
"They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that."
Bauer has come under attack from some of his gubernatorial rivals and his comments were subject of much scrutiny Monday by the national political press.