TweetAs I hoped, it looks like Lindsey Graham will be there with Haley asking for the flag to come down: (CNN)South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham will call Monday for the removal of the confederate flag from state grounds, a source familiar with the decision told CNN. Graham, a 2016 presidential candidate, will make his […]
TweetSince this letter acknowledges that he knows what’s up today, this probably goes sort of in the category of giving her support at a critical moment. The mayor already called for the flag to come down a couple of days back: Dear Governor Haley: On Wednesday, June 17th, a long time and dear friend of […]
TweetForgot to pass this on yesterday… The Washington Post writes that Nikki Haley, while committing to no one, seems likely to support Jeb Bush in 2016: Back in 2010, when the governor of South Carolina was merely “Nikki Who?,” running behind in a four-person Republican primary with her top supporter mired in scandal, Jeb Bush gave her […]
TweetThere are good reasons for us to change our way of choosing judges in SC. Stronger ones than the fact that the husband of a legislator was elected to the bench the other day. I briefly wondered why Nikki Haley seized on that incident to push for reform — after all, such a situation didn’t bother her […]
TweetThis does not bode well for responsible policy-making in South Carolina. (Now, if there’s an “Understatement of the Year” contest somewhere, and there’s a cash prize, I want one of y’all to enter that statement for me, on account of the fact that I’m too modest to do it myself. If there’s more than one […]
TweetIn the sake of clarity, The State‘s editorial Sunday about Nikki Haley’s “Let’s Make A Deal” proposal on paying for roads maybe what should have been an obvious point, although I had not yet thought of it this way: WHEN MARK Sanford ran for governor in 2002, he proposed to increase our tax on gasoline […]
TweetScratching my head a bit at this Lindsey Graham release: Graham ‘Honored’ to Be Part of Gov. Haley’s Inauguration WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made the following statement to celebrate South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s inauguration for a second term. “I’m honored and excited to be part of Governor Haley’s inauguration,” […]
Tweet On Nov. 4, South Carolina voters have the chance to put an end to an embarrassing anomaly — we have the power to cease to be the only state in the union that elects its adjutant general, the leader of the state’s National Guard. The reasons why it’s a horrible idea to have a […]
TweetLast night, Vincent Sheheen put out this statement: “Honest leadership means looking people in the eye and defending your record in debates in each region of the state, but Governor Haley refuses to face the tough questions about her abysmal record. Today we notified ETV that, as with the debate proposed by the Myrtle Beach […]
TweetOur governor had an attack of foot-in-mouth disease on a campaign trip to the coast: Gov. Nikki Haley told members of the Waccamaw High School Young Republican Club last week that she didn’t know if she was a Republican or a Democrat when she decided to run for the state House. “I knew I needed […]
Tweet The drumbeat is pretty steady from the Sheheen campaign, calling Nikki Haley all kinda mean, nasty, ugly things. One wonders when he’ll use some of these ads to push what he will do if elected. He has plenty of proposals, as well as accomplishments to tout. It would be nice to see him emphasize some […]
Tweet I almost posted about this yesterday when it came out, but I wasn’t that interested, because there was so little new in it. Watching the ad, I had the strong sense I’d seen it many times before. And I don’t mean it was like deja vu. It was more like I really had heard […]
TweetDid you see Andy Shain’s piece in The State over the weekend, digging into just how good a job Nikki Haley has really done on economic development? A key excerpt: Some of Haley’s economic claims and numbers are inflated, The State newspaper found in an analysis of jobs announcements and federal data: While political scientists […]
Tweet Doug Ross brought this to my attention with the words, “You’re not going to like this… Sheheen using Haley-speak to bash Haley.” Boy, was he right. As I said just yesterday in a comment on the importance of civics education: … I’d like our electorate to be sophisticated enough that no one who says “I […]
TweetThis seems like a bit of a stretch — Nikki Haley has a history of ethical challenges, but no indictments — but I guess this is what parties do: MEMORANDUM To: Interested Parties From: DNC and DGA Communications Date: August 27, 2014 Re: Haley, Perry & the Ethically-Challenged Governors of 2014 Rick Perry and Nikki Haley […]
Tweet The Vincent Sheheen campaign released this video today hitting Nikki Haley for not commenting on the DSS child-protection scandal. Hey, maybe if they can get her to comment on that, then I can get a comment from Sheheen on the immigration issue? Ya think?
Tweet You know, you could take this observation from our governor in a very negative way: ATLANTIC BEACH, SC — Gov. Nikki Haley and Atlantic Beach officials remain at a standoff regarding the future of Atlantic Beach Memorial Day Bikefest after a meeting Tuesday morning. Haley said she would like to see Atlantic Beach return […]
TweetGov. Nikki Haley is walking a very fine line. On the one hand, she decries the “humanitarian crisis” of those thousands of children, driven by desperation we can’t even imagine, who find themselves alone on this side of the border. We are told that “As a mother (emphasis mine), Republican Haley said finds it ‘disturbing’ […]
Tweet I missed this yesterday for traveling. Months after those outrageous anti-Sheheen ads from the Republican Governors Association, its Democratic counterpart has put out the above ad. Here’s the release that goes with it: NEW TV AD: Nikki Haley Put Her Career Ahead Of Children’s Lives “Interview” Features Former State Social Services Worker Who Quit […]
Tweet Our own Doug Ross attended IT-ology’s Summit on Information Technology today, and this is his report: Nikki Haley did the quick welcome speech to the crowd this morning. Never had seen her before in person… I was impressed with her energy and her ability to speak without notes. She laid out what will probably be […]