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Connected SC Family Steps up for Huntsman

Jon Huntsman continued his swing through upstate South Carolina on Tuesday and rolled out new, "coveted" endorsements in his run for president.  Additional members of the Campbell family, regarded as political establishment, are joining the fold.  Iris Campbell, widow of former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell and their eldest son, Carroll Campbell III, announced their support at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville.  Mrs. Campbell and Carroll Campbell III join Mike Campbell, 2008 South Carolina Chairman of Mike Huckabee's campaign, who had previously endorsed Huntsman .

Today Mike Campbell said, "We have the opportunity to go from having I would guess the least qualified president this country has ever had... to having a man with the qualifications of Jon Huntsman .  We feel like South Carolina is going to be a bellwether state for you."  Carroll Campbell III said Huntsman, "speaks with a voice that unites people" and in a statement ahead of the event, "He balanced budgets, created jobs and passed free-market health care reform without mandates... I am confident South Carolinians will rally around the campaign."

Huntsman showed his gratitude to the well connected Campbell family which has backed the previous GOP winners of the South Carolina primary, "I am humbled by the support of Gov. Campbell's family."  Referring to how Gov. Carroll Campbell was the gold standard role model, Huntsman stated, "I'm going to do for this country what Carroll Campbell did for South Carolina."

Monday night, Huntsman faced a crowd of 50 to 75 people at a restaurant in Greer.  He continued the theme he carried during his weekend in Florida, calling Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget plan a good idea.  He said debt and spending are unsustainable, "We are spending money that we don't have.  This country desperately needs a balanced budget amendment."

He went on to say the country needs to start making things, drawing attention to Boeing which has been a hot button issue for the state .  Boeing recently opened a new plant in South Carolina which has been the target of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint.  Over at the endorsement event in Greenville on Tuesday, he called out his former boss, President Obama, "If Campbell (referring to former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell) were here, and watching the situation with Boeing and the Labor Board, he would be the first person to stand up and he would tell the labor board to stand down.  If the president of the United States cared about jobs in South Carolina, he, too, would be standing up and telling the labor board to stand down.

Book Club to Go Kits: THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH by Robert Hicks

/*Starred Review*/ Carrie McGavock witnessed the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee, on a day in 1864 when 9,000 soldiers were slaughtered, the vast majority of them Confederate. Carrie, the central character in this mesmerizing novel, was an actual historical figure. Her farm was close by the scene of the battle, and her house was commandeered as a makeshift hospital. And what Carrie the fictional character does after the battle, the actual Carrie did in real life. When more than 1,000 Confederate bodies buried in a neighboring field were threatened with desecration, she and her husband moved them to their own land and organized the only private Confederate cemetery. The brewing of the battle, its events, and the wound-healing time afterward are told by Hicks not only from Carrie’s perspective but also from the points of view of Mariah, Carrie’s slave-turned-friend; Carrie’s plantation-owning husband; Union and Confederate soldiers and officers; and Carrie’s neighbors. The author gracefully yet forcefully enters the psychology of these various individuals, each one representing a certain side in not only the battle at hand but also in the overarching context of nation rending. And, almost strangely yet certainly beautifully, from all this carnage emerges a love story that transcends time. See the adjacent Read-alikes column for other novels about the Civil War that use the multiple-perspectives device.

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