As we would like to appoint someone from every geographical region of the state, with only three appointments, we're not always going to be able to do that.

It shouldn't cost the taxpayers of this state $64,000 to keep the lieutenant governor 's speedometer out of the triple digits.

This is good-old boy budgeting. The fact that being a son of a senator entitles you to a state position is completely counter to what this administration stands for.

It's not something we've reviewed in detail yet.

When Dan Cooper puts together a budget that shatters state spending records, I can understand why he's sensitive about someone looking over his shoulder. But Gov. Sanford's job is to look out for the hard-working taxpayers of this state, and that's always going to be his top priority.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters