By Andy Pierrotti
Reprinted from Count on 2 News

Eugene Platt takes his poetry seriously, “At night, I am your angel.” Very seriously.
He wants to take his passion for hard work to the state house as the District 115 House Representative.
Others disagree, not based on his qualifications, but on his writings.
South Carolinians for Responsible Government sent out 10,000 flyers, saying Platt “promotes deviant sexual behavior,” In a book titled: Summer Days with Daughter.
Platt is accusing incumbent Wallace Scarborough of sending out the flyers. To give you some perspective of what the flyers consider deviant, it sites his poem: Passion and Ice, “…prize of your thighs, the comfort of pillow-soft breasts, and for blissful rest, the support of firm buttocks.”
Platt says it’s not about his daughter. Both met on WTMA’s Morning Buzz with Richard Todd Friday morning about the flyer.
Scarborough: “He wrote the book of poetry. I didn’t write the book of poetry. I didn’t have anything to do with it. If Mr. Platt wants to write poetry. I think that’s his choice. It has nothing to do with me. If he wants to put sexual explicit poems in a book about his daughter, that’s his choice.
Platt: That is outrageous! I hope you’re not going to let that go.”
“I don’t think I said anything that Mr. Platt seems to think that I said in that interview and I’ve listened to it several times, and I haven’t,” Scarborough said.
Platt wants an apology, for what he believes were indirect sexual remarks Scarborough made about Platt and his daughter.
Both hope the radio outburst doesn’t over-shadow the real issues about their campaign.
“I want to talk about roads, I want to talk about bridges,” said Scarborough.
South Carolinians for Responsible Government takes full responsibility for the flyers. They say Scarborough did not have any input into the contents. Both plan to debate again Wednesday, October 11th on WTMA 1250.