patrickt
05-09-2014, 06:58 AM
"In the almost year and a half since being appointed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-tim-scott-of-south-carolina-to-be-first-black-republican-senator-since-1978/2012/12/17/cdd1db44-4878-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html)to the Senate by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Scott, a conservative Republican, has embarked on an unconventional listening tour, wandering his state in blue jeans, talking to folks without ever saying who he is. He’s mopped up the floors of a burrito joint, manned a shoe shop and ridden the bus through rough neighborhoods in Charleston.This year, he is poised to be the first black politician to win statewide election in South Carolina since Reconstruction. He’s young (for the Senate), affable and able to blend in where his colleagues would stand out — just try to imagine Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) talking about understanding the misguided allure of drug dealing, or being asked whether he had been assigned mandatory community service."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-undercover-senator-sen-tim-scott-goes-anecdote-shopping-in-south-carolina/2014/05/06/98e534b0-cbb9-11e3-93eb-6c0037dde2ad_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rdin
Okay, so maybe it's a gimmick. But, I like a guy who goes around listening to people. Can you imagine Sen. Harry Reid listening? How about President Obama listening to someone who wasn't holding a checkbook and a pen?
Can you imagine any other politician not telling people who he is, why he's really, really important and why they should quit doing whatever they're doing, shut up, and listen to him.
Can you think of another politician who doesn't seem to think he's the center of the universe?
Sen. Jim Scott is destined, in my opinion, to be a quote maker--in a positive way.
"And unlike other, more prominent black Republicans — Herman Cain or Ben Carson, for example — Scott isn’t likely to accuse black voters (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/12/19/tim-scott-treads-carefully-through-south-carolina-and-d-c-political-thicket/)of being enslaved to the Democratic Party. “That language doesn’t suit me,” Scott says. “It’s really hard to offend someone into changing their minds.”
I'm hoping he gets elected to the Senate. He seems like a good man, bright, and certainly not a racist. I hope more politicians look at what he's doing and consider the possibility of listening to someone who isn't paying them to listen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-undercover-senator-sen-tim-scott-goes-anecdote-shopping-in-south-carolina/2014/05/06/98e534b0-cbb9-11e3-93eb-6c0037dde2ad_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rdin
Okay, so maybe it's a gimmick. But, I like a guy who goes around listening to people. Can you imagine Sen. Harry Reid listening? How about President Obama listening to someone who wasn't holding a checkbook and a pen?
Can you imagine any other politician not telling people who he is, why he's really, really important and why they should quit doing whatever they're doing, shut up, and listen to him.
Can you think of another politician who doesn't seem to think he's the center of the universe?
Sen. Jim Scott is destined, in my opinion, to be a quote maker--in a positive way.
"And unlike other, more prominent black Republicans — Herman Cain or Ben Carson, for example — Scott isn’t likely to accuse black voters (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/12/19/tim-scott-treads-carefully-through-south-carolina-and-d-c-political-thicket/)of being enslaved to the Democratic Party. “That language doesn’t suit me,” Scott says. “It’s really hard to offend someone into changing their minds.”
I'm hoping he gets elected to the Senate. He seems like a good man, bright, and certainly not a racist. I hope more politicians look at what he's doing and consider the possibility of listening to someone who isn't paying them to listen.