Mark Sanford on the hot seat over government shutdown
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 10/7/13 5:31 PM EDT Updated:
10/7/13 6:02 PM EDT
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Of all the House Republicans taking a hard line on the government shutdown, Rep. Mark Sanford may be in the hardest spot of all.
Reminders of how heavily Sanford’s congressional district leans on the federal government are everywhere: Charleston’s 24,000 federal workers, more than 7 percent of its workforce, the 10th-highest proportion of any city in the country; the veterans who make up nearly one in seven residents; the thousands of defense contractors who count on Washington’s largesse; and the multiple military facilities, including the Marine Corps’ famous training base and air station, Parris Island, where nearly 300 workers were furloughed.
Yet Sanford — who made and then remade a political career on his credentials as a fiscal conservative, and who was a proud member of the Republican Revolution that prompted the last federal shutdowns in the mid-1990s — isn’t backing down from his refusal to support a budget bill unless Obamacare is altered.
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