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      CommentAuthormis-one
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2008
     
    A new campaign causing a ruckus in our sister state:
    South Carolina is So Gay
    A state employee has resigned and officials have disavowed an international advertising campaign that led to calls for an investigation of tourism posters proclaiming “South Carolina is so gay.”

    The campaign, which plastered the London subway with posters advertising the charms of South Carolina and five major U.S. cities to gay European tourists, landed with a resounding thud in South Carolina, where the issue of gay rights has long been a political flashpoint. [...]

    The tourism department quickly said it was canceling payment of its $5,000 fee for the posters, which it said were approved by a low-level state worker who did not run the idea by senior officials. The employee, who was not identified, resigned last week, the agency said.

    A spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate for the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said the governor agreed that the posters were “inappropriate.”

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      CommentAuthorphantom2
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008
     
    i dont know about all that, BUT South Carolina has some freaking CHEAP GAS. they are still in the 3.04 range.
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      CommentAuthorDrew
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008
     
    ->link<-

    where?
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      CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008
     
    South Carolina is so.............Gay?

    Sorry, we would have accepted Racist, Xenophobic, Backwards, or Shitty, but Gay? I don't think so.
    • CommentAuthoroccupant
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008
     
    clemson sucks.
    • CommentAuthoroccupant
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008
     
    can you really call a whole state racist and/or backwards? i've met/known some really nice people from there..
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      CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2008
     
    No, I wasnt generalizing it to the ENTIRE public, I should have clarified.

    South Carolina's leaders are Racist, Xenophobic, Backwards, or Shitty......and they are voted into office by popular vote, so while there are some nice people in SC (one of my best friends is from Colombia) the general populous seems to be at least a little behind the times.

    I mean they take the confederate flag down from the capital building (finally) and then they put one up at the statehouse. Its like these douches just want to keep racist views on the forefront of their states public perception or just create unnecessary controversy. Either way its just ignorant.
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      CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2008
     
    maybe they keep it cause of heritage and not the racist views. i dont know, i dont know wat things are like down there so i cant say.
    buy why disown something purely because some rednecks that are racist also use it?
    its like children should stop getting rainbow stickers etc cause some fags in SC use it as a meaning of their sexual preference.
    i know thats not really the same thing, but i hope you see what im saying.
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    "cause some fags"

    Wow, really?
    I was accepting your opinion until then.
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      CommentAuthorBeeson
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2008
     
    you beat me to it winston. for that you shall pay in gravy jeans.
    not only that, but what history or heritage are you disowning by letting go of that flag? a 200 year old economic dispute? a short-lived propagator of slavery? come on, i live here and im fine with forgetting that

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