By Dan Hoover
STAFF WRITER
dchoover@greenvillenews.com
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Add another top Republican name to Arizona Sen. John McCain's
unofficial presidential campaign.
Secretary of State Mark Hammond gave his endorsement Thursday to
McCain, the 2000 runner-up to the eventual nominee and president,
George W. Bush.
Hammond described McCain as "a tried and true conservative and
our party's best chance" to retain the White House in 2008."
Although former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reeled in his
biggest South Carolina catch on Tuesday in U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint,
McCain has been salting away endorsements since early 2006.
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Among them are U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key ally from 2000,
Attorney General Henry McMaster and his predecessor, Charlie Condon.
Also: Adjutant General Stan Spears, Agriculture Commissioner Hugh
Weathers, Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell, Christian
activist-consultant Bob McAlister, former ambassador and retired
banker Bob Royall, Florence surgeon and GOP fund-raiser Edward
Floyd, Sen. Mike Fair, a slew of other state legislators, and a
posse of county sheriffs.
Most were Bush supporters in 2000's bitter primary with McCain,
and again in 2004.
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback's long-shot GOP presidential bid got a
boost from a pair of South Carolina conservatives, state Sen. Kevin
Bryant of Anderson and Hal Stevenson of Columbia.
Both will serve on the Kansas senator's steering committee,
according to a Brownback campaign announcement.
Bryant and Stevenson, former president of the Palmetto Family
Council, praised Brownback's conservative credentials. |
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