Elect Weaselly Beasley Not!

South Carolina political minds have very limited short term memories as
well as horrible long term memories. Therefore, it is time to review the
facts about the former South Carolina Governor David Beasley, especially because
the newspaper, The Times Examiner, reported on January 7, 2004 that he plans to
enter the U.S. Senate seat primary race.

Beasley is a Democrat. The 1986 and 1990 SC Legislative Manuals
document the David Muldrow Beasley was a Democrat from District No. 56,
Darlington-Marlboro Counties. Just because he decided to jump the political fence to the
Republican Party in 1996, does not mean he became a Republican Platform
supporter. Apparently, he wanted to be elected Governor and the Christian Coalition
was the political tool of the day in South Carolina. Pastors let him speak
from the pulpit under the banner of Christian Republican . . . which he later
mocked by ignoring pro-life pastors across the state.

Beasley is an advocate of the federalization of the pro-Democrat
socialist public education system. The SC House Journal documents on Thursday, June
1, 1989 that Rep. Beasley "moved that the Committee of Conference on the
following Bill be resolved into a Committee of Free Conference and briefly
explained the Conference Committee's reasons for this request." The Bill was S-321 -
"A bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Section
69-18-15 so as to provide a process whereby schools can be given the
flexibility of receiving exemption from certain state regulations and by amending
Section 69-18-20 so as to establish a competitive schoolwide innovation grants
program" [page 3982].

In layman's terms, S-321 was called Target 2000 to hide its real title
and intention as the federal Goals 2000 agenda.

That same day, the House Journal further reports that "the motion to
resolve Committee of Conference into a Committee of Free Conference was agreed
to. The Committee of Conference was thereby resolved into a Committee of Free
Conference, the SPEAKER appointed Reps. Beasley, Nesbitt, and Jaskwihich to the
Committee of Free Conference and a message was ordered sent to the Senate
accordingly" [page 3983]

Ironically, the same day Thursday, June 1, 1989, the SENATE Journal
records the following success: "On motion of Senator Setzler, with unanimous
consent, the report of the Committee of Free Conference was taken up for immediate
consideration. On motion of Senator Setzler, the report was adopted as
follows (Doc. No. 2227D) -- Citation Section 1. This act is known and may be cited
as the ‘Target 20000-School Reform for the Next Decade' Act."

In layman's terms, Beasley put the Goals 2000 agenda into play with the
South Carolina legislature as a House of Representative member, and then he
negotiated its passage all the way to the goal post. For the record, it appears
that Beasley was a lackey for the Republican Governor Carroll Campbell.
Furthermore, Beasley became Governor and pushed his legislation to completion
following Title 3 of Goals 2000 which concluded on June 10, 1998 with his
signature on the 1998 Education Accountability Act . It is written.

Beasley has connections with Arkansas and Bill Clinton. The TIME
magazine documents this fact on August 14, 1989. Furthermore, the Darlington County
Historical Commission reported that Rep. David M. Beasley spoke to the
Arkansas folks who migrated from Darlington County to Arkansas just before the
beginning of the Civil War. "Reuben Beasley, their common ancestor, was born in
old Darlington District, 166 years ago and did not elect to emigrate to Arkansas
until well into his middle age, along with his wife and eight of their ten
children. . . . Reuben Beasley was a farmer, turpentine distiller and cooper . .
. He also ran for and was elected to the position of Ordinary, the
ante-bellum term for Judge of Probate and held this office one term."

Reuben later wrote a letter to the editor of the Darlington County
newspaper, ". . . this state [Arkansas] is largely Democratic, but in our county we
have a hard time to hold the reins the Republicans are mostly in the city of
Little Rock . . . the greatest struggle at this time however, is the candidates
of the same party striving for the nomination . . ."

The Beasley family (i.e., John Beasley) owned a 32-year old male slave
as of August 26, 1850. This information is on a document entitled, "Schedule 2
- Slave Inhabitants in Second Division in the County of Darlington State of
South Carolina."

Beasley talked the talk of a Pro-Life candidate, but failed to walk the
walk. Beasley never fulfilled his promise made to Pro-Life pastors to submit
legislation which would halt the use of South Carolina tax dollars that were
supporting the abortion clinics around the state. He repeatedly lied to
pastors about his intentions, even from their own pulpits.

Therefore and in conclusion, the Weaselly David Beasley should be
scrutinized by those of strong mind and good heart. Is he worthy of such power as
is prescribed in a U.S. Senate seat?

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