Black History Month Agriculture

Citizen Rainey

Rainey’s words have weight. He is not some yahoo. Indeed, right now he is on the finance team of ex-ambassador to China and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who is running for the Republican nomination for president. For eight years, Rainey chaired the state’s Board of Economic Advisors under Sanford. Before that, in the ’90s, he helmed the state’s public utility, Santee Cooper, and navigated it out of one of the largest corporate scandals in the state’s history. Rainey’s charges against Haley are not new: He focuses largely on her dubious compensation for work at Lexington Medical Center and engineering firm Wilbur Smith, arrangements that have both left clouds of lingering questions in the wake of Haley’s rapidly rising political career. Those questions, Rainey believes, still need a thorough investigation, which he has initiated as much as he can as a private citizen. He also believes Haley’s election points to a dysfunctional trend in American politics whereby candidates aren’t vetted seriously by their own parties. From here at Fox Watch Farm, Rainey has been launching a series of private investigations into the sitting Republican governor for more than a year. Last September, before she was elected, Rainey authored a much-publicized letter to President Barack Obama’s U.S. attorney in South Carolina, Bill Nettles, with an opinion that Haley might have violated the federal Hobbs Act. The law prohibits public officials from receiving money “under the color of official right.” The letter was in response to news that Haley had taken $42,500 in consulting income from the engineering firm Wilbur Smith and a $110,000 salary as a fundraiser from Lexington Medical Center, despite her inexperience in either sector. Both entities also had business before the Legislature at the time. Rainey has since further investigated Haley’s tenure at the hospital.

Obama 'Black History Minute' Ad: 1991 TBS Commercial Resurfaces ...

. In his capacity there, he once appeared on television to deliver a bit of knowledge for Black History Month.

In a 1991 TBS “Black History Minute” advertisement that has since resurfaced, Obama talks about Charles Hamilton Houston, the black lawyer best known for mentoring future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and for his legal work combatting Jim Crow laws.

YouTube user Akaczynski , who provides the video above, looks to be compiling an assorted video record of past campaign ads and statements from prominent politicians, including Senate ads from both Obama and GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.

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