Britain Just Betrayed America at the United Nations

Theresa May has betrayed the British people in their quest to be free of the European Union, so it is not surprising that she has betrayed America too. The good news is that this failed swamp dweller will be gone soon, we now have a President who fights back, and a special relationship that has endured for more than 80 years will survive her.

European allies, most notably Britain, helped isolate America at the United Nations Monday, demonstrating how even the most special of relationships stops at the water’s edge of Israel’s Mediterranean shores.

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley vetoed an Arab-proposed Security Council resolution Monday that rebuked President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and start the process of moving the US embassy there. All other 14 Security Council members supported the anti-American resolution.

Read more at New York Post >>

Tricky Nikki's Appointment as UN Ambassador

President-Elect Trump with South Carolina Lt. Governor Henry McMaster - A team to make America and South Carolina great again!

For my friends outside of South Carolina who may not understand the appointment of Nikki Haley as United States UN Ambassador -- a woman to whom the President-Elect owes NOTHING -- this is more a maneuver to reward South Carolina Lt. Governor Henry McMaster, a popular leader to whom the President-Elect owes a great deal.

Nikki Haley is a powerless and disliked Governor who has attempted to achieve national recognition by betraying the people of her own state and conservative principles. She is an opportunist and has no future in South Carolina whatsoever, and her success to date has depended on the same factor which helps elect Lindsey Graham to the United States Senate. Democrat voters have known that they are unlikely to obtain anything closer to one of their own and have therefore cast their votes for the RINO candidate.

Lt. Governor Henry McMaster, on the other hand, is a popular figure who will be a well-respected, popular Governor. He was also the most prominent elected official in South Carolina to support the President-Elect in South Carolina's "first in the South" Republican primary. Trump's win here was the first in what became an unbroken and unprecedented string of victories throughout Dixie.

Haley's role at the UN will be that of a TV news anchorwoman; she will read statements prepared by others in the White House and State Department and take the slings and arrows of a world community hostile to the United States. She will have no policy role and will be a place-filler until someone qualified can take the job, unless the Trump administration can extract the US from that enormous waste of money. Many of us will be grateful for an ingenious way to get Haley out of the state.

Now South Carolina will have a superb, new Governor who reflects conservative South Carolina values and will be an important ally to the Trump Administration in making America great again.

Boyd D. Cathey: Why I Support Donald Trump and Not Ted Cruz

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From The Unz Review

By Boyd D. Cathey

Recently, I was asked by a friend who likes Ted Cruz, why I support Donald Trump and not the Texas senator among the Republican candidates running for president. In partial response to that question, let me set down briefly my thoughts.

I think it is important to begin with a review of some essential history, a brief exploration of the evolution of what is now called “Movement Conservatism” and its symbiotic relationship to the modern Republican Party. Understanding this background is critical to comprehending what has happened and is happening, politically and culturally, to what remains of the American republic in 2016. The transformation of the intellectual brain trust for the Republican Party has fundamentally affected and influenced the successive evolution of the positions the Republican Party has taken over the past fifty years.

Before discussing this history, I think it is necessary that we recall that the GOP Establishment, in fact, never gave up its virtual control of the party structure, despite Ronald Reagan. And since Reagan’s departure it has controlled the party apparatus completely and uninterruptedly. Even under President Reagan, as a dear friend who worked in the White House in 1981 once remarked to me: “Reagan let the Bush establishment people control appointments, and their strategy was ‘Let Reagan speak like Reagan, but we will control appointments and policy’. And basically that is what happened.”

It was my mentor and friend, the late Dr. Russell Kirk, whose volume The Conservative Mind actually initiated what became the older, scholarly “conservatism” in the 1950s. “Conservatism,” as Kirk explained it, encompassed an inherent distrust of liberal democracy, staunch opposition to egalitarianism, and an extreme reluctance to commit the United States to global “crusades” to impose American “values” on “unenlightened” countries around the world. Conservatives should celebrate local traditions, customs, and the inherited legacies of other peoples, and not attempt to destroy them. America, Kirk insisted, was not founded on a democratic, hegemonic ideology, but as an expression and continuation of European traditions and strong localist, familial and religious belief. Indeed, Kirk authored a profound biography of Senator Robert Taft, “Mr. Conservative,” who embodied those principles.

White House Heaps Praise on Haley After SOTU Response

Nikki Haley, Obama's Useful Idiot

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s (R) response to President Obama’s State of the Union address won her praise from the very place she was tasked with criticizing: the White House. 

“I have a lot of admiration for the governor,” White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. “I think some of the things she has done over the last year are remarkable.”

Haley’s response to Obama’s annual address was unusual in that it took a veiled shot at her own party’s presidential front-runner, Donald Trump. 

“During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices,” she said. “We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.”

Those comments echoed Obama’s speech, in which he rejected Trump’s doom-and-gloom message. Obama said at times of great change, America has never given in to “those who told us to fear the future” or promised “to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control.”

“She was willing to do something a lot of other leading Republicans have been unwilling to do, which is to actually articulate a commitment for American values that some leading Republican presidential candidates are speaking out against," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday. “Her willingness to stand up and speak out against that took some courage and was it rather conspicuous.” 

But they also raised the ire of many on the right, including conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who said the governor — the child of Indian immigrants — should be “deported” for her remarks. 

Trump himself took a shot at Haley, who admitted in a Wednesday morning interview her comments were aimed at the billionaire real estate mogul. 

Read more at The Hill >>

 

Trikki Nikki is Shocked that Syrians are Arriving in South Carolina

One of Trikki Nikki's Many Faces

According to yesterday's The State newspaper, Syrian refugees have begun arriving in South Carolina.  And Governor Nikki Haley is just shocked!  Shocked!  In response to statewide opposition and public pressure, hadn't she publicly "requested" that Syrian refugees not be settled here? 

Her office claims to have been completely blindsided by the collaboration of her Department of Social Services and Lutheran Services Carolinas on the first Syrian placements in South Carolina's Midlands.

Sadly, this is only the latest example of what a lying, duplicitous Governor we have and why she has so richly earned the appellation of Trikki Nikki.

She knew very well when she signed an agreement on August 7th that Syrian refugees would be coming to South Carolina.  Your safety and well-being be damned.  It means federal dollars for her friends and all subsequent "requests" were merely for show.  Federal shackles follow federal shekels, as Trikki well knows.

So, arm yourselves, South Carolinians; Trikki and the feds are not going to protect you.  And be forewarned America, our very corrupt Governor is concerned only about her own selfish advancement.

Fairfield County GOP Chairman Exposes Molly Spearman, the 'Phony Republican' Seeking the GOP Nomination for State Superintendent of Education

Molly Spearman - the 'phony Republican' running for State Superintendent of Education

There are several good, qualified candidates seeking the GOP nomination for State Superintendent of Education in the GOP's June 10 primary - Molly Spearman is not one of them.  That is, unless you think that South Carolina schools exist for the benefit of teachers and administrators, are under-appreciated as high-quality centers of learning, need more money and you oppose the right of parents to direct the education of their children and to seek alternatives outside the government issue, state-run schools.

Spearman talks a lot about accountability, but her idea of accountability is an accountability to bureaucrats for compliance with massive rules and regulations that result in a one-size-fits-all system -- a system that is mediocre at its very best and is failing at least half of all South Carolina students who enter high school.  

A real Republican supports accountability to parents for results.  

Molly Spearman should be seeking the Democrat nomination.  That is the party she has long-supported.  In the following expose, Fairfield County GOP Chairman, Kevin Thomas, has exposed the imposter and her fraudulent campaign.

Spearman or Prosperity? Pick one because they don’t go together!

“Republican” Superintendent of Education candidate Molly Spearman is running in the wrong Primary.

Do you know her Democratic history?

The only reason she is running in the Republican Primary instead of the Democratic Party is because she has a better chance of winning as a Republican in this Republican controlled state. All constitutional offices and six of the seven congressional seats are held by Republicans.

Here are some examples of her Democratic credentials.  She has a long history of supporting Democratic candidates: 

• 2014- Superintendent of Education Candidate Rep. Mike Anthony

Spearman got Anthony to drop out of the race to prevent a Democratic Primary, therefore encouraging Democrats to vote for her in the Republican Primary. She will also use the political machine of the SC Association of School Administrators to help her campaign in addition to the administrators she represents in each and every community in the state.

http://www.thestate.com/2014/03/05/3307045/election-2014.html

Spearman donated to these Democratic candidates

• 2013-Superintendent of Education Candidate Rep. Mike Anthony-$200 when he was the only announced candidate facing Republican incumbent at the time, Dr. Mick Zais.

• 2012- Sen Nikki Setzler $100

• 2012- Rep. Gilda Cobb- Hunter $100

• 2010- Superintendent of Education Candidate Frank Holleman III $750

• 2010- Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Rex $500

• 2010- Gubernatorial Candidate Vincent Sheheen $750

• 2010- Rep. Mia Butler $100

• 2008- Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter $500

• 2004- Superintendent of Education & US Senate Inez candidate Inez Tenenbaum $1000

http://apps.sc.gov/PublicReporting/Contributions/ContributorResults.aspx

• She did wise up politically and make a donation to Governor Haley of $200 in March of this year when she decided to run and realized her democratic contributions would be scrutinized.

Spearman who worked for Democratic Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum after donating to her campaign saw her salary increase 22% in 2003 and it ended up being $98,699 as the agencies top lobbyist, so much for keeping more money in the classroom. Spearman was also anti- Jim DeMint when Tenenbaum ran against DeMint for the US Senate saying “The target her opponent used was that South Carolina was last in education in the country and didn’t say anything positive, which harmed the image of the state. I’m sure it was on the minds of a lot of people. It wasn’t Inez’s fault- that’s just politics. They didn’t have much to get her on, so they used the state’s SAT status.”

Spearman is for Taxing SC “Heavily”

• When Spearman was a SC State Representative she said “I don’t have any problem with it (Video Poker) as long as we tax it heavily.”

• When Governor Mark Sanford refused to accept federal stimulus money in 2009, Spearman, as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators filed a lawsuit against the Governor.

Spearman is against School Choice

In an Op-Ed by Adam Schaeffer, a policy analyst with the Cato Institute, said Spearman had either “a complete disregard for the basic fact and research findings”, of a school choice tax credit bill he testified before the South Carolina Legislature “or an ignorance of those facts, resulting in errors big and small” He says her research appears to have consisted of calling someone in the Florida Department of Education to ask them why they thought academic achievement in Florida has increased.” Spearman apparently missed the official government study, conducted by academic researcher David Figlio at Northwestern University, which found the tax credit school choice program significantly improved academic achievement of PUBLIC schools. This study is consistent with 17 other studies that find private school choice programs improve public school performance.

When the School Choice bill for special needs children passed the SC House for the first time in 2012, Spearman, while serving as the Director of the SC Association of School Administrators, said “This isn’t going to do anything to improve our education in this state. At a time when we can’t fulfil our state requirement for public schools, we’re diverting resources to places where there is no accountability, where we aren’t sure the type of education students will receive.” This is another example of a lobbyist and former government bureaucrat thinking they know what is best for a student more so than the parent.

In 2011, Spearman wrote an editorial in The State newspaper titled “SC can’t afford fool’s gold of private school subsidies.” In this editorial, she argued that private schools wouldn’t accept students that the credits would help.” Several schools in the state are accepting special needs students now after the bill passed last year.

In an AP article on June 27, 2011 entitled “SC School leaders want to seek federal money”, Spearman said “There are things you say in a campaign, but the picture opens up when you get in office. You have to leave the campaign behind.” She is admitting you say one thing in a campaign and you do things differently when you are get into office.

Molly Spearman is a pro-stimulus “educrat” who supports increased spending in South Carolina

Fact: Spearman and the SC Association of School Administrators sued the State of South Carolina and Governor Mark Sanford to accept the $700 million in federal stimulus

Fact: Spearman applauded the judge’s ruling the South Carolina must accept the stimulus money. “Thank goodness for the people of South Carolina. He’s (Sanford) realizing that he’s going to lose and there’s no reason to try and delay this any longer.”

Fact: Spearman has attacked Superintendent of Education Mick Zais for not accepting federal education money. “We really feel that some very bad decisions are being made without the input of people who are on the ground in the districts.”

Fact: Under Spearman’s leadership, SCASA received $29,070 in taxpayers’ dollars in one month for consulting services from Superintendent Jim Rex’s Department of Education.

Molly Spearman’s timeline

• Democrat SC State Representative 1993-1995

• 1995 Switched from Democratic Party to the Republican Party (To make sure she got re-elected)

• “Republican” SC State Representative 1995-1999

• Lobbyist for the South Carolina Department of Education 1999-2004

• 2005-Present- Executive Director of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators

When South Carolina Radio host Rocky “Rocky D” Disabato sued the SC Association of School Administrators for not turning over documents after submitting a FOIA, Spearman said “We feel strongly that our First Amendment rights as an association is to join together and be heard freely without harassment of FOIA is our protection.” Rocky D requested the documents because the SCASA receives taxpayer money through membership and professional development training with the school districts. Attorney General Alan Wilson submitted a brief supporting Rocky D’s case. The case was named the case of the month in October 2012 by the South Carolina Supreme Court. Mrs Spearman does not believe in transparency as she will not honor FOIA requests. The case is still in the courts.

Fairfield County GOP Superintendent of Education Candidate Forum

Question - Common Core is an attempt by D.C. special interest groups and the federal government to herd children into one-size-fits-all national standards. States were coerced by the federal government into adopting the Standards resulting in an illegal federal takeover of education. The Common Core Standards have never been field-tested; were approved without a cost analysis; remove parental and local control; contain academically inferior content; include massive unfunded mandates and will lead to significant threats to student and family privacy. More than twenty states have legislation pending to repeal Common Core. This is the definition of Common Core from South Carolina Parents Involved in Education. What is your position on Common Core?  Are you for or against it?

At the 22:35 mark on the YouTube video.

Spearman’s answer- “I’m supporting Sen. Mike Fair’s compromise bill S300, I know some folks believe Common Core should be replace immediately. The fact is you have to govern and we have many school districts, my own school district has already implemented common core and in order to keep learning going on in the classroom, I think Sen. Fair has come up with a good solution. His amendment would, does say that no data would be sent back to Washington, that should not be sent.  It calls for the test to be changed and that decision to be opened up.  I support that and the decision to use ACD and it gives better education and it also calls for a review for the standards every 5 years, it currently being 10.  I believe that SC teachers should review the standards and we could go from there with those.

Question- Mrs Spearman- You served as a Democrat in the state house before you switched to the Republican Party and then served in the SC Dept. of Education under Democrat Superintendent of Education Inez Tennenbaum.  You now serve as the Director of the SC Association of School Administrators, which some would argue is in affect a teachers union.  With that background how do you expect to convince Republicans and especially conservatives to vote for you in the Republican Primary in June?

At the 30:37 mark on the YouTube video.

Spearman’s answer- “Well I grew up in Saluda County and I don’t know about you folks in the audience, back then, if you lived in South Carolina back them, Governor Edwards was our first Republican Governor, followed by Carol Campbell and even Strom Thurmond was a Democrat. That was what happened in my family, we were Democrats.  I was elected, went to the statehouse and I saw that as things worked out, I aligned more closely with the Republican Party and I was very welcomed and encouraged to switch and I did that. Speaker David Wilkens, Lt. Gov Bob Peeler and a number of great Republicans were there to welcome me into the party that day and many others have switched since then and I am more aligned with them.  In ’98 I rode the bus with Gov. David Beasley all across the state introducing candidates and I introduced David Eckstrom who was a Republican candidate for Superintendent of Education at the time, he did not win.  I got a phone call from Inez Tenenbaum who did win.  She was a Democrat, she said I want you to come work for me, I said Inez I didn’t even vote for you, I don’t know you. But she asked me to come and work for her, just like of the President of the United States I think invites someone to work on their staff, it’s our call to duty, so I did.”

When legislation was proposed to limit severance packages for district superintendents of education to one year she objected.  Here is the story http://earlcapps.blogspot.com/2011/02/reining-in-school-superintendent.html

Here are the links with the google docs to back up these claims

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_wzuVtPYRpWmRXZE9kQW00cGM/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_wzuVtPYRpSXlJeVZzbUpFb2c/edit?usp=sharing

I am not endorsing anyone in this race, but I cannot stand by and let the Democratic practices and history of a phony Republican go unnoticed by the Republican voters.

Kevin S Thomas

Chairman

Fairfield County Republican Party

fairfieldcountygop@gmail.com

Grifters for "Ethics Reform" - Nikki Haley's Assault on Senator Bright

Governor Nikki Haley came to the Upstate this past week to bash Spartanburg's fiscal and social conservative State Senator, Lee Bright, for his refusal to sign-on to the fraudulently misnamed "Ethics Reform" legislation. 

Nikki Haley as an advocate for ethics reform is a bit like Barack Hussein Obama pushing the cause for small, frugal and accountable government or the League of Prostitutes for Purity.  Politics is the second oldest profession, but Haley's assault on Senator Bright is audacious, even for her.

Senator Bright made clear that he would not support so-called "ethics reform" legislation until he could get a vote on the nullification of Obamacare.  As a principled conservative he is also right to oppose this misnamed, retrograde legislation because it does anything but advance ethical, transparent and good government in our state.  In fact, it would shield legislators from criminal prosecution for ethical violations.  The Spartanburg TEA Party has summarized here what they have aptly called a "crap bill."

Perhaps Haley's assault on Senator Bright is just the Establishment's first strike on a solid conservative with a real chance of defeating Senator Lindsey Graham next year in a GOP primary.  If that was her intent, we expect Boss Connelly, choreographer of the recent state GOP infomercial, and Curtis Loftis, Mitt Romney's SC chairman,  will be following in her wake.

We can well understand Governor Haley's personal interest in shielding corrupt politicians from criminal prosecution, but the people of South Carolina should not be fooled by Nikki Haley, the most ethically challenged of all South Carolina politicians.

Nikki Haley Introduces and Praises Mitt Romney at CPAC

South Carolina's Governor, along with State Treasurer Curtis Loftis, was an early and ardent supporter of Governor Mitt Romney's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.  This past week she introduced her candidate to the annual convention of the conservative movement known as CPAC.

Haley praised Mitt Romney as a "leader" who "fights to make a difference in the country."  But there's the rub.  It's the "difference" Mitt Romney made, his record, that caused conservatives throughout South Carolina to feel betrayed by their elected Republican (RINO) "leaders," and it was that record that caused millions of conservative, Republican voters to stay home or vote for third party candidates.

Yes, Governor Haley, Mitt Romney has fought, indeed he has been the foremost leader in advancing same-sex "marriage" in the United States, in authoring the prototype for Obamacare, in establishing taxpayer-funded $50 abortions on demand as a “healthcare benefit,” and in establishing a permanent government seat on the state-run health care board for an unelected representative of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.  

Conservatives also know that Romney repudiated Ronald Reagan when he ran for the United States Senate in Massachusetts; we remember that he promised to be "better than Ted" Kennedy in advancing the radical homosexual agenda; and we remember the outlandish lies he told about conservatives seeking the presidency in 2008 and 2012.  Conservatives also know that as Governor of Massachusetts, Romney took the same position the Obama administration has taken in its denial of religious conscience rights when he ordered that all hospitals provide rape victims the "morning after" abortifacient pill.  His lies, even about small and personal things, along with endless flip-flops on every major social and economic issue point to a deeply flawed character that resulted in most GOP primary voters supporting other candidates in the race, and his loss to a weak and unpopular incumbent.

But we're glad you reminded us of your support for the great chameleon, Governor Haley.  We just can't believe you and your fellow RINO, Mitt, had the nerve to peddle your poison at CPAC, of all places.

Tim Scott to Fill DeMint Senate Seat

The appointment of Representative Tim Scott to fill Senator Jim DeMint's Senate seat is the best possible appointment for many reasons.  While Scott does not have the most conservative voting record among our South Carolina Congressional delegation, he is a solid conservative whose vote will cancel out rogue Senator Lindsey Graham.  He is also less likely than others on the "short list" to draw a primary opponent in 2014, forcing the strongest Senator-wannabe's to consider a primary challenge to Lindsey Graham.  And best of all, Haley didn't appoint herself.

Congratulations, Congressman Scott, we wish you great success and hope you will continue to "fight the good fight" so ably and nobly fought by Senator DeMint.

S.C. Gov. Haley names Scott to DeMint’s Senate seat

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday named Rep. Tim Scott to replace the resigning Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. 

Mrs. Haley, who announced her decision at an early afternoon news conference at the state Capitol in Columbia, said Mr. Scott’s background as a entrepreneur will serve South Carolina well. 

“He earned this,” she said. 

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Poll: Gov. Haley's Numbers Below Obama's

 Nikki Haley visiting New York during her ongoing national fundraising tour.

The number of South Carolinians who identify themselves as members of the tea party has fallen to less than 6 percent, and Gov. Nikki Haley’s approval ratings are lower than President Barack Obama’s, according to a poll of state residents released Wednesday.

The survey, taken Nov. 25 through Dec. 2 by Winthrop University, found that 5.7 percent of registered voters said they were members of the tea party, with 90.8 percent saying they weren’t.

The poll also showed that 48 percent of South Carolina residents approved of the job Obama is doing, while 38.3 percent approved of the way Haley is handling her job.

Read the rest of this entry at GreenvilleOnline.com 

The GOP Convention - An Event To Be Missed

It was revealed today that Rick Santorum will not be given a speaking role at the Republican National Convention; so much for the GOP "big tent," my fellow conservatives. With speakers like John McCain, Nikki Haley and Condoleeza Rice, the quadrennial infomercial for the liberal establishment of the GOP is turning into an event to be missed.  Wake us when Governor Huckabee speaks.

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National View: S.C. Governor, GOP Activist Clash

John Rainey

South Carolina politics never fails to amuse.

A recent ethics imbroglio between Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP activist John Rainey is a case in point.

The squabble would be of passing provincial interest if Haley weren’t a rising star often mentioned on lists of potential vice presidential candidates.

And had she not called Rainey, a nationally recognized philanthropist and community bridge-builder, a “racist, sexist bigot.”

Such charges deserve clarification and context.

Nikki Haley

Haley made the remarks during a state House Ethics Committee hearing that was prompted by a complaint Rainey filed alleging that Haley had lobbied illegally while she was a legislator. Haley has been cleared of any wrongdoing and there’s no need to re-litigate here, though Rainey promises that the issue is not dead.

Meanwhile, her invectives toward Rainey, though perhaps understandable given an exchange between them (about which more anon), are contradicted by his record. Rainey is anything but racist, sexist or bigoted.

Read the rest of this entry at the Duluth News Tribune >>

Weak Tea

What Happened to the Tea Party Taking Back its Government?

 

Nikki Haley was "TEA Party" when it served her ambitions.

Two years to the day since Alvin Greene became a household name, all 170 seats in the S.C. House and Senate were up for grabs on June 12 in what should have been a watershed moment for the tea party movement. With a governor they’d elected in the Governor’s Mansion, it was an opportunity for tea partiers to remake the state GOP in their own image. Instead, it was a washout.

Voter turnout was historically low. Hundreds of candidates were kicked off the ballot in the weeks leading up to the state’s June primary.

Reasons vary for why the movement failed to mobilize a groundswell of anti-incumbent fervor that could have reshaped South Carolina’s power structure in one of the most tea party-saturated states in the nation. 

Read the rest of this entry at Free-Times >>

S.C. Ethics Panel Reopens Probe of Gov. Nikki Haley

House Speaker Harrell has accused Gov. Haley of lying about the status of an ethics probe into her activities while serving as a SC House member.

 

 

 

The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to reopen its inquiry into whether Gov. Nikki Haley illegally lobbied while a S.C. House member, exploiting her public office for her personal gain and to benefit her employers.

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SC House Member: Send Haley Ethics Complaint to AG

A House Ethics Committee member says she will propose sending an ethics complaint against Gov. Nikki Haley to the attorney general.

Republican Rep. Joan Brady of Columbia said Tuesday the case has gotten too complicated, and Attorney General Alan Wilson should handle it to uphold the governor's and committee's integrity.

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South Carolina Expands Charter School Options, Allows Single-Sex Charter Schools

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law Monday a bill expanding charter schools, calling it a big first step in improving education by expanding options for parents who don't want to send their children to traditional public schools.

The new law allows boys-only and girls-only charter schools and requires traditional schools to open their doors for students who want to do extracurricular activities not offered by their charter school. It also allows universities to sponsor their own schools.

State Education Superintendent Mick Zais called it his chief legislative priority.

"Charter schools are not a magic bullet, but they are a tremendous step in the way to providing a personalized and customized education for every student — not a standardized and uniform education for every student," Zais said at the ceremony at Greenville Technical Charter High School.

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Winthrop Poll Finds South Carolinians Divided on Haley Performance

A Winthrop Poll released today finds South Carolinians almost evenly divided on the performance of Governor Nikki Haley.  In the new poll of adults surveyed between April 15 to 22, 37.3% of all respondents said they approved of the governor's performance, while 36.5% reacted negatively.  Among Republicans and Independents who are registered voters and lean Republican, her approval rating is almost 60%, with one-in-five disapproving (20.2%).

The Winthrop Poll is an ongoing project of Winthrop University and is partially underwritten by the West Forum on Policy and Politics at the University.  The poll's most recent examination of South Carolina attitudes is available here.

South Carolina DHHS Employee Arrested in Data Theft

From left: SLED Director Mark Keel, SCDHHS Director Tony Keck, SC Inspector General Jim Martin and Governor Nikki Haley

The personal information of more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients in South Carolina has been stolen by a former state Department of Health and Human Services employee, according to DHHS and the State Law Enforcement Division.

SLED says 36-year-old Christopher Lykes was able to make off with 228,435 Medicaid recipients' personal information by emailing the information to his personal Yahoo email account.

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Nikki Haley's Lies, Sweet Little Lies

Gov. Nikki Haley’s new memoir, “Can’t Is Not An Option,” is untruthful or twists many events, a half-dozen S.C. politicians said last week.

Members of Haley’s own Republican Party — including the speaker of the S.C. House and a former lieutenant governor — say allegations against them are “absolutely not true” and “not true at all.” Democrats, including Haley’s 2010 opponent in the governor’s race, describe the book as “fiction.”

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/04/15/3895387/sc-gov-haleys-memoir-makes-stuff.html#storylink=cpy

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Jim DeMint Sells Out

Jim Demint boards the Titanic

We just left a message for Senator Jim DeMint at his Washington Office (202-224-6121) expressing our bitter disappointment that he has joined establishment party figures in supporting Mitt Romney and urging Senator Santorum to get out of the race.  It is not the first time that DeMint has favored Governor Romney; he endorsed him in 2008.

The establishment chorus knows that Senator Santorum is likely to win the Louisiana Primary. Indeed, the establishment would not be rallying if they didn't believe their regional candidate is likely to crawl, weak and bleeding, to the finish line, if he can make it at all.  In every state, save perhaps his own, the majority of primary voters supported a candidate other than Governor Romney.  According to a study done by The Daily Beast, the former Massachusetts Governor has "the worst primary-season favorable-unfavorable split of any major-party nominee of the last 36 years [at least].”

His candidacy will be disastrous and GOP rank-and-file voters should hold John McCain, the Bush family, Lindsay Graham, Nikki Haley and yes, even Senator Jim DeMint responsible for the debacle that is about to unfold in the Republican Party.

The best thing that could happen would be for the convention to draft a candidate with broad, national support, who can truly unite the GOP against the worst, most unpopular president in American history -- not nominate an echo who at one time or another has espoused Obama's policies.

We grudgingly went along with the establishment's argument that we should hold our nose and vote for McCain, Bush, Dole, etc.  -- because the alternative was so much worse.  Let the record show that we will not do that again.  The lesser of two evils is still evil, and we would rather have bad policy associated with the Democrat brand than to compromise the Republican brand any further.

Here in South Carolina the only demographic supporting Governor Romney in the South Carolina Primary were those making more than $200,000 per year.  We hope that when the worst fears of concerned Republicans are realized on November 6, that elected leaders here - Governor Haley, Treasurer Loftis, Senators Graham and DeMint - and the high priests of the GOP Establishment throughout America who are foisting this very flawed and noxious candidate on us -- will stand up and take full responsibility.