Ok, so I've gone through Nikki Haley's (R) personal stuff. I'll go over Vincent Sheheen's (D) background, and then get into the Green Party/United Citizens candidate, Morgan Reeves.
So, Mr. Sheheen. There's a lot less info out there about Sheheen than Haley, as far as background goes. There is a solid legislative history behind him, though, which I'll get into later on.
Sheheen was born in Camden, SC. He's married, with three boys (13 year old twins, and a 9 year old). Went through the public school system growing up, and so do his boys. He's a Catholic. Sheheen went through undergraduate studies at Clemson, and then later on through law school with USC. He's got a few awards and such, but nothing near to what Haley has. Professionally, he's an attorney. He's been a law clerk, a city prosecutor, and an instructor in Law at USC.
That's about all I got on his personal background, both through his site, and Wikipedia. Other sites just re-hash stuff from those two. The professional background comes from scstatehouse.gov.
A lot of his side-work, volunteering-type of stuff is stuff with public schools, which I think is pretty awesome. Also, I haven't been able to find info about this elsewhere, but apparently (according to the Arab American Institute) Sheheen's great-grandparents are Lebanese. From that website, it seems Sheheen isn't really mentioning this, because it would take away from his campaign's focus.
“My campaign has purposefully been focused on and about South Carolina,” explains Sheheen, noting that Haley has not been locally focused, instead cultivating national press.So, the Republican candidate is Indian, and the Democratic candidate is Lebanese... I can't say I saw that coming.
Anyways, Morgan Reeves. Reeves is the candidate supported by the Green Party and by United Citizens. There is so little info out about this person on the internet, that my previous blog post is the #3 hit for a Google search of his name. I'll give you what I got, though.
I couldn't dig very far back into his history, but I did find that he went to high school here (in a public school, Irmo High). After that he went to college in Michigan, majored in Urban Planning and Development, minored in Business Administration. He has a Ph.D in Theology, and appears to be extremely educated in religious areas, including a Doctorate of Divinity, and is a certified religious Counselor.
Reeves has an extensive religious professional background. He's has been a Pastor at six different churches, and volunteers as a minister for the Department of Justice. Besides his religious professional experience, he owns a land clearing company, and is the founder of the M.B. Reeves Community Unity Scholarship Foundation.
I guess every candidate for the SC Governor seat has to have something that just totally sticks out. Haley is Indian, Sheheen is Lebanese. Well, Reeves says he was a Detriot Lion. See, the thing about this guy isn't that he was a Detriot Lion, as cool as that might be. It's that he isn't listed anywhere on the 1981 NFL draft (which is the year he was supposedly drafted). He also isn't listed on the Detriot Lions' All Time Roster.
...So was he a Lion or what?
Either way, at least he isn't Alvin Green.
I'll be writing up the candidates' stances on unemployment and the economy in the next post, which I'll probably finish tonight after dinner :)
-Ray
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