{"id":113666,"date":"2023-05-24T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113666"},"modified":"2023-05-24T03:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:07:59","slug":"south-carolina-governor-under-fire-for-comment-about-hunting-democrats-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113666","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;South Carolina Governor Under Fire For Comment About Hunting Democrats With Dogs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/south-carolina-mcmaster-hunt-democrats-dogs_n_646cff6ae4b06749be170f09#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20look%20forward%20to%20the,this%20turn%20of%20phrase%20before.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;Outrage is mounting over a remark South Carolina Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/henry-mcmaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Henry McMaster<\/a>\u00a0(R) made this weekend about hunting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a>\u00a0with dogs \u2015 a comment that critics slammed as a \u201cracially-tinged dog whistle\u201d encouraging violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McMaster made the shocking remark Saturday during a convention in Lexington, South Carolina, for the state GOP. \u201cI look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs,\u201d he told a crowd of party members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Carolina Democrats have since demanded accountability, pointing out that it\u2019s disturbing to hear a white governor, from the state\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/religious-landscape-study\/compare\/racial-and-ethnic-composition\/by\/party-affiliation\/among\/state\/south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly entirely white party<\/a>, make such a comment about the state\u2019s Democrats, a majority of whom are Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe majority of the Dem electorate in SC is Black and our governor is saying out loud he can\u2019t wait to hunt us down with dogs,\u201d Christale Spain, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspain1920\/status\/1660059052854919168?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThis is absolutely chilling to hear from a Southern Gov who knows our history.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;Outrage is mounting over a remark South Carolina Gov.\u00a0Henry McMaster\u00a0(R) made this weekend about hunting\u00a0Democrats\u00a0with dogs \u2015 a comment that critics slammed as a \u201cracially-tinged dog whistle\u201d encouraging violence. McMaster made the shocking remark Saturday during a convention in Lexington, South Carolina, for the state GOP. \u201cI look forward to the day that Democrats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113667,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113666\/revisions\/113667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}