Around 80 people, almost all democrats, rallied at the Statehouse Thursday evening calling for Governor Mark Sanford’s resignation or impeachment.
The late Michael Jackson played over the speakers, singing about “Change.” A large orange poster containing the outline of a peach with a big “M” in the middle, for “M-peach,” was held in a long line of posters.
The star speaker in the citizens’ rally was well-known Charleston Democrat Phil Noble, who leads a progressive statewide group known as the New Democrats.
Noble said that democracy, to work, has to have a basic sense of honor and trust between the people and their leaders, and he says that was broken by Sanford and he should resign. “All over this state there children who look up to Mark Sanford as the governor. They had his picture in their rooms. But you know what? That picture is not there anymore because the parents had to explain to the kids what this governor did.” [click to continue…]
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