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Nikki Haley Intends to Govern

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 9th, 2011 at 04:20 PM  | 

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The legislature and Governor in South Carolina have had a rather fractious relationship for the past decade. The Governor during that period has typically broken up the good old boy network and actually fought to reduce government in South Carolina and privatize what could be privatized.

Well, recently there’s been a port expansion issue affecting Georgia and South Carolina. Georgia wants to deepen the Savannah River to expand the port in Savannah to accept new ships coming through the Panama Canal. The good old boys in South Carolina wanted their backs scratched to get things done.

It didn’t work out that way. Neither the Governor nor the agencies responsible for getting the good old boys’ their backs scratched actually did it. Georgia gets to dredge and South Carolina will get a port expansion in Charleston, but it will still take a while.

The good old boys decided then to haul all of Governor Haley’s top aides into the legislature for examination. They couldn’t find that anyone did any wrong doing. And now Governor Haley has responded. She means to keep changing South Carolina, keep moving the state forward, and keep making it place where business is free to do business without scratching backs or letting government pick winners or losers.

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  • Flagstaff

    Hasn’t she heard of the Chicago way?

    Imagine that, a principled governor. Maybe Illinois could learn something from her.

  • garythompson

    The governor posted this on her twitter account this morning and I watched it then but I had to go get some or the back story and this post helped out too. I’m sick of the Good Ole Boy network in SC and I’m glad she is doing something about it. Go Nikki Haley, I’m proud to have you as my governor.

    Lesson to those not in SC, this is what will happen when the national GOB network gets taken down. Be prepared.

  • Ausonius

    What say ye, RedStaters?

    Or would you prefer President Haley and Vice-President DeMint? :)

    A South Carolina ticket, from the the state which catalyzed the Civil War (aka The War Between the States) comes a lesson in Conservative governance.

    I don’t really care how much experience Haley has: anybody who takes on “Good Ol’ Boys” and does a flea-flicker to snooker them has hit a run home run with me!

    Good-bye to salamander candidates, those with gloves for first names, and those who seem closer to Cain sexually than Abel.

    Hello uncamouflaged, bare-knuckled, and very married Nimrata Haley! Let’s roll!

  • nancysabet

    She is fighting the establishment big time. I have a feeling that she is very similar to the way Perry is governing TX, except she is in her early stages. I sure hope she will get all the help she needs under president Perry.

  • gekster

    And this is what a Governor is all about.
    To bad we don’t have 49, err 56, (have to get that right) more of them.

  • beric

    Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is a REAL governor.

  • rtsidedragon

    who will win out over the GOB’s. She’s a tough one!!

    GO PERRY 2012

  • mndasher

    There is no chance for Illinois to learn from the example that Nikki Haley has set. It is not in their DNA nor in their ethics.

  • Kyle-MI

    Just off the top of my head, there is Walker in WI, Kaisich in OH, Scott in FL, Jindal in LA, and I am sure I am missing quite a few more. We have an outstanding group of GOP Governors at this time. Now if we can just keep them in office long enough for them to clean up their states. I am looking at you, people of WI.

  • Ausonius

    This was interesting: I typed in “Nikki Haley” on Google, and when I hit “News” up popped on the first page – as if something legitimate – a series of “articles from “FITSNews” which are from a lunatic anti-Haley website:

    http://www.fitsnews.com/2011/12/09/nikki-haleys-cake-boss-gets-off-easy/

    If one types in “Nimrata Haley” one finds in fact ONLY “FITSNews” articles under Google-News.

  • duncer

    As i recall from my fading memory, she received a lot of support from the tea party. I sent her a small check my self. The republican party was her most vociferous opponent dealing in dirt. With obama in the white house , politics as usual is just crazy.

  • snowshooze

    She get’s mad then she get’s even..
    Ouch.

  • http://www.changeforrickperry.org louisianapatriette

    Awesome Southern governor: smart as a whip, bold as brass, cute as a button. Between her, Bobby Jindal, Sam Brownback, Brian Sandoval, and Bob McDonnell, President Perry will have lots of good strong support.

  • gawken

    But I hope we don’t blow it in 2012..

  • After Seven

    n/t

  • snowshooze

    I have lived in a few States like that. Washington, Oregon and Alaska…
    The Coastal cities are Democrats. The Rurals and inland guys are Conservatives. 5% of the real estate controls 100% of it.
    And it is not well received.

  • snowshooze

    nt

  • snowshooze

    Count me in.

  • curtis60

    Eric, before you jump on this bandwagon, I suggest you dig a little deeper to see the big picture. I voted for Haley, but I have serious concerns about her handling of this issue. Georgia will get their port, but the silt will damage the fishing in South Carolina for years to come. Charleston will get a port in about 25 years. Nikki has been destroying all e-mails and has accepted money from big Georgia donors. She is showing signs of major corruption. Read Red State’s Jeff Schreiber article from Nov. 29th for more info that’s closer to the truth.

  • http://www.changeforrickperry.org louisianapatriette

    Yeah I guess I’m rotten to bring that up. The Dems are probably jealous because they don’t have all three in any of their ranks ;)

  • Ausonius

    :)

    Either one is fine with me, but Papa’s heart condition would be hard to defend!

    Rubio/Haley 2016 assumes that the Gingrich/Olympia Snowe 2012 ticket crashes and burns against a resurgent MAObama, who will have offered the middle-class more tax cuts and cutting edge class warfare against billionaires and bankers, tax cuts which he will then repudiate and billionaires to whom he will offer specific exemptions for shaving a point or two from unemployment.

  • conservativeparrothead

    President and vp can’t be same home state, remember Cheney had to change his residency from Texas to wyoming

  • jfpurdue01

    …she has done some things that have been good for business, but when Amazon was looking to come to SC, she was blatantly against them opening a distribution center that ended up creating 2000 jobs (probably more when all is said and done). All because she wanted to collect online sales tax from Amazon. If they had passed on opening in SC (which they were going to do until the legislature stopped listening to her), the state still would not have collected any sales taxes from Amazon and they would have lost out on all of that income tax, etc. from Amazon opening. Mark Sanford was a much better governor than Haley. You know… except for that trip to the Appalachian Trail.

  • Ausonius

    if one state stands in your way, you can always pack up and try another one!

    You are right! But a little carpetbagging is not unknown down South! :)

    I really think DeMint has a shot in February or March, as some commentators foresee a stalemate by then among our present gaggle of wounded geese.

    2012 will be really interesting politically!

  • Raven

    Alaska is pretty much the reverse of that. It’s the rural areas that depend on government largesse and thus vote for it. Well, them and Juneau. That’s why there’s so much political combat over Anchorage. How Anchorage votes decides for the state.

  • acat

    I can confirm that most of the State – geographically – is quite Red.

    It boils down into three groups – the Lib/Dem crooks of Chicago, the ficons or socons in suburbia (ficons to the north, socons to the west), and conservative farmers and small business owners everywhere else.

    Win any two groups, and you win statewide. Simple.

    Kirk (R), who represented a ficon district for years, got enough of the farmers and socons to elect him to the Senate.

    Brady (R-cand), who did a good job in Peoria, could not get enough of the ficons and socons to back him … leaving us with Pat Quinn (D-idiot) as governor.

    The only solution I see for Illinois is not Nicki Halley, but hard voter ID rules. In every statewide race, it seems that Cook County (i.e. Chicago) starts reporting early, but *keeps* reporting until after every other county is done… and they frequently have just enough votes …

    Mew