Republican Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch met at The Citadel in Charleston last night for their first and only
debate before the special election for South Carolina’s
first congressional district. The latest polls show Colbert-Busch with a 9 point lead over Sanford.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Saturday, December 17, 2011
A Conservative's Crusade Against Governor Nikki Haley
Citizen Rainey
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| John Rainey has made some enemies in Columbia by calling Nikki Haley “the most corrupt person to occupy the Governor’s Mansion since Reconstruction." Photo: Sean Rayford |
From the Charleston City Paper
By Corey Hutchins
John Rainey is wearing a coat and tie as he slowly strides across the grass of his 17-acre estate — called Fox Watch Farm — just outside the small South Carolina town of Camden. Two big German Shepherds follow him through an English garden that surorunds a gazebo near a horse barn. Rainey, who turned 70 last month, is a tall man. For years, he has loomed large in S.C. Republican spheres of influence; he is responsible for recruiting Mark Sanford to run for governor in 2002. But lately, the longtime Republican fundraiser and powerbroker has caught attention in certain circles for something else: his one-man mission to discredit the state's new governor, Sanford's hand-picked successor, Nikki Haley.
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