June 1 press conference
Governor Mark Sanford said Monday he has a hunch he’s going to lose the stimulus cases. The governor says he expects that the South Carolina Supreme Court will rule against him on the issue of federal stimulus funds. He says he doesn’t plan to appeal the cases, and says it looks like the state will be bound to spend the stimulus money.
Sanford spoke in a press conference Monday afternoon, shortly after U.S. District Judge Joe Anderson ruled that two state lawsuits that Sanford wanted a federal court to decide would have to be decided by the state supreme couurt. Sanford says he does not expect the state court’s decision to be in his favor, because the court’s members are chosen by the General Assembly, which has already ordered him to take the money.
Sanford says it’s time to stop the tug of war if the court’s decision is against his position. “The question now is will we belabor this, and we’re saying we won’t. We will live by Judge Anderson’s decision today, and the Supreme Court’s decision after Wednesday. But it is my hope that within this tug of war that has gone on here over the last couple of weeks that people really do have that constitutional moment.” [click to continue…]
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