Tim Scott to Be Named for Empty South Carolina Senate Seat

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Tim Scott to Be Named for Empty South Carolina Senate Seat, Republicans Say - NYTimes.com

10:17 a.m. | Updated Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina has chosen Representative Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the United States Senate, according to three Republican officials. The move will make Mr. Scott the first black senator from the South since the late 19th century.

The governor will make the announcement at noon at the State House in Columbia. She began informing the roster of finalists on Monday morning about her decision to go with Mr. Scott, who was the preferred candidate of many conservative leaders and groups in Washington.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, three Republican officials familiar with the process confirmed to The New York Times the decision to select Mr. Scott. Aides to the governor declined to comment before the noon announcement.

Ms. Haley seriously considered a number of potential contenders, particularly Jenny Sanford, the ex-wife of former Gov. Mark Sanford, who supported Ms. Haley in her race two years ago. But in choosing Mr. Scott, she selected a lawmaker with a strong conservative voting record during his two years in Congress.

Additionally, Mr. Scott offers a unique story and background, one that is in scant supply in the Republican Party right now. Raised by a single mother, he was, by his account, a lost child who struggled with school and with life until a Chick-fil-A franchise owner took him on as a protégé and schooled him in conservative principles.

“Coming from a single-parent household and almost flunking out of high school,” Mr. Scott said in 2010, during his bid for the House, “my hope is I will take that experience and help people bring out the best that they can be.”

Although Republicans have far fewer minorities and women in Congress than Democrats, the party, with Monday’s announcement, will now be able to claim the only current black member of the Senate, as well as two of the three Latinos.

Mr. DeMint announced earlier this month that he would retire two years into his second Senate term to run the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington. In Mr. Scott, Ms. Haley has chosen a lawmaker with very similar views to Mr. DeMint on all matters of public policy from taxes to guns to social issues.

Mr. Scott, who lives in Charleston, will no doubt be missed among many of his House Republican colleagues. “There is not a kinder, more humble, sweet-spirited person,” Representative Trey Gowdy, one of Mr. Scott’s freshman colleagues from South Carolina, who was also considered for the job, said in an interview last week. “That is somewhat antithetical to what you’d expect at this level of politics. “

Besides Mrs. Sanford and Mr. Gowdy, Mr. Scott bested several other finalists including former Attorney General Henry McMaster and Catherine Templeton, the state health agency director. A rush to fill Mr. Scott’s seat will now ensue with various contenders already licking their chops.
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Crakface said:
It looks pretty self explanatory. They dont f with brothas like that in southern politics.
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I know. I'm surprised he wasn't the first one in the region.

I found the first.

Hiram Rhodes Revels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction.
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Can you imagine the saltiness of those white Mississippi fukkers back then? Just got their ass beat in a war, the Yankees occupying their state, and then having a Black Senator.

I bet they're still mad.
 
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Indian bytches love Tim Scott.

This was his girlfriend, don't know if they're still together.
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