A political news blog run by the former press secretary to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford suggested this week that the state's top business lobbies will work to defeat three Republican senators on a committee that intensely questioned a Sanford nominee to the Workers' Compensation Commission.Prominent defense lawyer Samuel F. Painter abruptly withdrew his nomination to the commission on April 10, a day after he underwent an intense grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Joel Sawyer, Sanford's current press secretary, said Painter withdrew for personal reasons.Leading the que...
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