If you didn’t read the Free Times last week, you may have missed this:
A judge heard oral arguments on March 12 in a public corruption lawsuit brought on behalf of a prominent GOP fundraiser against Republican Gov. Nikki Haley.
Fifth Circuit Judge Casey Manning has yet to make an official ruling on whether the case will move forward.
Reached by phone, Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey said the governor’s office had no immediate comment on the matter.
Former Board of Economic Advisors chairman John Rainey, who recruited Mark Sanford to run for governor in 2002, filed the lawsuit in November. It asks whether Haley broke any laws as a House member either by lobbying a state agency on behalf of her employer Lexington Medical Center or by doing secret consulting work for Wilbur Smith and failing to properly abstain from legislation benefitting the engineering firm. Both occurred during the time she represented Lexington County as a Republican in the S.C. House prior to becoming governor in 2010…
It continues to puzzle me that South Carolina went through such paroxysms over Ken Ard buying a few trinkets with campaign money, to the point of his resignation, while we’ve never had a satisfactory answer to the question, What did Nikki Haley do for Wilbur Smith to earn that $42,500?
For that matter, we don’t know what she did for Lexington Medical to earn that $110,000 salary.
We’re still waiting. Nikki’s still silent on these matters. And no one is bothered by that, apparently, except John Rainey.
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It’s only puzzling until you realize that she may simply be offed now that their man McConnell is in the que.
Wait — que isn’t even a word.
Surely there is a word for it somewhere though.
Ard perjured himself. That’s a huge deal. As is so often the case, it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.
and I’m concerned about Nikki Haley’s apparent corruption, for the record.
On the other hand, Rainey is REALLY bothered by it.
We all should be though; this is the most blatant, most corrosive form of political corruption – and its right there in front of us. Even Lexington Medical Center seems to acknowledge that the situation wasn’t on the up and up.
It’s the kind of thing Juan should be all torqued up about, even though Haley isn’t an attorney.
Put me down as also concerned about Haley’s apparent corruption, and apparent total lack of ethics.
Maybe her fictional autobiography will clear some of that up.
In addition to perjury, Ard and his unindicted 30-40 co-conspirators did some heavy duty money laundering, although it was his money they were washing – as far as we know. I bet the AG didn’t go very far in that direction. This was more than trinkets. The unusual few hours of resignation-indictment-plea-sentencing speaks to that.
Good for John Rainey. I hope he stays bothered. I think there is so little desire by the politicians for details of Nikki’s un-registered lobbying while a legislator to come out because it comes a little too close to home. I never thought Nikki was smart enough to come up with this kind of thing on her own. It had to be something she saw other legislators doing. I bet our ne’r do well(based on tax returns) governor-to-be thought she had died and gone to heaven the day she was sworn in to the House.
It is a word, but it’s spelled “queue” and pronounced like the word “cue” in “pool cue”. It is a Britishism for “line” as in “There’s a queue in front of the theatre.” (=”There’s a line in front of the theater.”) Very stylish word, IMHO.
Turning to the subject of our unethical governor, I don’t much care who replaces her, as long as she is gone.
And to answer the question, “What did Nikki Haley do for Wilbur Smith to earn that $42,500?” My guess would be to unethically (and perhaps illegally) peddle her influence and possibly her vote.
Good question, Brad, why aren’t Republicans concerned about the ethical issues surrounding our Governess? Two theories: 1. We live in glass houses. 2. We’re exhausted after years of Sanford and Haley and we hope the electorate will solve the problem before the legal system.
No one wants to be seen picking on the “girl governor” you’d look like a bully and no one plays victim better than Haley.
I know a lot of people who are very bothered by it, but unfortunately, most of the folks in the Legislature don’t seem to be among them. Glass houses and all that, as others have already commented.
The latest issue of More magazine has another gushing piece on Nikki Haley. I want to frow up.