When are the muckety-mucks going to stop picking on trailer parks? Don't they know South Carolina has more manufactured homes per capita than any other state?

John Rainey , Gov. Mark Sanford's chief campaign fund-raiser and his chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors, is the muckety-muck in question.

When the Sanfords said they could not run the mansion for the rest of the fiscal year without private help, he opened a private Mansion Fund. Rainey raised $100,000 or so in two weeks, including $5,000 out of his own wallet.

So far, so good. But then Rainey compared our executive-housing situation to our love-to-look-down-on friend to the west, Arkansas. Gov. Mike Huckabee moved into a triple-wide during renovations of the mansion.

"The governor of Arkansas moved into a house trailer," Rainey said. "We just can't do that. We can't go there."

Burch Antley, spokesman for the state's Manufactured Housing Institute, was dismayed.

"It's mean-spirited," he said. "I do think the Bubba trailer school ad offended people as well and they could've remembered that, that Tuesday in November."

Y'all remember Jim Hodges' ad? It's the one that ran the weekend before the election, with Bubba and Mrs. Bubba joking about "trailer-schooling" their child. It's the one some Republicans say cost the Democratic incumbent the election.

Antley is hoping for an apology.

"There's no sense in anyone putting people down just because of the house they live in," he said. "They don't deserve that."

Rainey declined to respond to Antley for publication.

For the record, 355,000 S.C. families live in manufactured homes. And, Antley assures us, they vote.

Spokesman Will Folks said the governor's office doesn't speak for Rainey and Rainey doesn't speak for the governor.

"As for the governor's thoughts on manufactured housing, I frankly doubt he'd spring for a triple-wide."

A BUZZ EXCLUSIVE: GOVERNOR IS ALL WET

Gov. Mark Sanford's Thursday got off to a wet start.

Instead of riding to the State House with his official State Law Enforcement Division escort, as usual, he had his wife, Jenny, drop him off after they took their kids to school.

It was 7:30 a.m. The doors to the State House were locked. There was no one else there.

It was raining.

So a wet and getting-wetter governor loped his way around the State House grounds until he was finally able to get out of the rain through the State House garage.

He showed up in his office dripping wet.

That'll teach him to leave his bodyguards at home.

But just to make sure it doesn't happen again, Sanford was issued a magnetic key card that will unlock lots of doors, including the one that leads to his office.

Maybe Sanford friend and fund-raiser John Rainey can start a foundation to raise money to buy Sanford an umbrella.

THAT'LL BUY A LOT OF GRITS

Thanks to federal law, we can tell you that Gov. Mark Sanford's stake was worth $317,163 in a Charleston County company that decorates mouse pads and glass products.

The governor owns 7 percent of Wilson Brothers USA, the umbrella company for companies based in Texas and Pennsylvania.

The company's president is John H. Sanford, the governor's brother.

How do we know this?

We found a form SC 13G that the governor filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Translation: If you own more than 5 percent of a publicly traded company such as Wilson Brothers, you have to tell Uncle Sam about it every now and then.)

The form even listed Sanford's mailing address as the Governor's Mansion.