Inflatable pig visits Waterfront Park

The political group S.C. Club for Growth campaigned in Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park on Friday with a 12-foot-tall inflatable pink pig and an actor sporting seersucker playing the fictional Sen. Gimm E. DeBacon III.

The curly-tailed visitor had a banner on its belly that read "cut the pork," "end wasteful government spending," and, "on June 10 vote no to (Catherine) Ceips."

The park is a few hundred feet from the incumbent state senator's Bay Street home. The group endorsed Ceips' Republican primary opponent, former governor's chief of staff Tom Davis.

A press release from the group, which promotes lower taxes, smaller government and strong free enterprise, describes the pig as "doubly symbolic of both the wasteful pork spending and the hot air required to say one thing and do another."