MORNING HEADLINES | S.C. Sen. Matt Leber, R-Charleston, is facing calls for resignation following public allegations by his wife that he engaged in an extramarital affair with a paid Republican campaign consultant.
In a series of now-deleted Facebook posts over the weekend, Michele Leber, a recently-elected member of the Charleston County School District Board of Trustees, accused her husband of engaging in an affair. The allegations got widespread notice in a weekend story by FITSNews.
Charleston Democrats seized on the opportunity to criticize Matt Leber, who has been a lightning rod for controversy through a nasty 2024 GOP primary against then-Sen. Sandy Senn of Charleston and this year in calls for library board members to take oaths of office.
“Hypocrisy seems to be the standard by which Leber and his MAGA Republican cronies live,” said the Rev. Thomas Dixon, chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party. “Like polished snake oil salesmen, they routinely tout themselves as the morally conscious ‘religious Right’ while constantly getting caught violating the moral principles they hold others to.”
But Charleston County Republican Party Chairman Andrew Boucher harangued Dixon, not Leber, in a statement published in The Post and Courier, rather than focus on Leber.
“Thomas Dixon and the Charleston Democrats have sunk to a new low with their ugly and vicious, transparently partisan attack. It’s gutter politics at its absolute worst,” Boucher said.
Meanwhile, one Lowcountry conservative blogger wrote that Leber had “forfeited his role as a moral political leader,” and could not uphold his campaign pledge to support “family values” in South Carolina while “using his position to spit in the faces of his own family.”
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