Currently: Bauer is in the hot seat for yet another fumble, at a town hall meeting on Thursday he alluded to starving the poor by saying… “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals.  You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”

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Bio: Bauer served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1996 to 1999. He served on the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee. In 1999, Bauer was elected to the South Carolina State Senate in a special election. He was then re-elected in the 2000 general election and served in the State Senate until his inauguration as Lieutenant Governor on January 15, 2003. He came in second in the Republican primary to fellow State Senator David L. Thomas of Greenville, but defeated Thomas in the runoff for the nomination. He then defeated fellow State Senator Phil P. Leventis, a Democrat from Sumter, in the 2002 general election for Lt. Governor, with more than 52 percent of the vote.

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