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VIDEO: Top SC Dem: Nikki Haley Should ‘Go Back to Being an Accountant in a Dress Store

Former South Carolina Democratic party chairman Dick Harpootlian today attempted to clarify remarks he made Friday at the party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner when he assured the audience that the Democratic challenger to GOP governor Nikki Haley would “send her back to wherever the hell she came from.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347612/harpootlian-clarifies-nikki-haley-should-go-back-being-accountant-dress-store

BREAKING: South Carolina House Passes Obamacare Nullification

The house of Representatives passed a bill not only making obamacare null and void, but also making it illegal to try an enforce it. This makes me proud to be from South Carolina.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/2/south-carolina-house-passes-bill-making-obamacare-/

“The state’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to “prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article.””

Nikki Haley, the Governor of [...]

RISING FROM THE SOUTH: Nikki Haley to pick Tim Scott to replace DeMint in Senate

Columbia, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to name Rep. Tim Scott as the replacement for outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint, Fox News has learned.

Haley is slated to announce her decision at noon on Monday at the Statehouse. Scott was elected to Congress in the 2010 Republican wave. Haley’s selection would make him the first black U.S. senator from South Carolina.

State law gives the Republican governor sole authority [...]

SEBELIUS AWARDS OBAMACARE EXCHANGE CONTRACT TO ‘FRIEND’

Many states are wisely signaling that they aren’t interested in doing the Obama administration’s bidding on Obamacare. As a result, many if not most of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges — the heart of the beast — will have to be set up and run by the Obama administration at the federal level.

States are not required to set up Obamacare exchanges, but it seems to have surprised observers that many are choosing [...]

The South Carolina Department of Revenue acknowledged the massive electronic security breach today,3.6 mil Social Security numbers being stolen

The South Carolina Department of Revenue acknowledged the massive electronic security breach today, saying an electronic intrusion led to 3.6 million Social Security numbers being stolen.

Millions of SSNs lifted from South Carolina database
Slipshod security at the state Department of Revenue leads to a massive security breach: 3.6 million Social Security numbers are stolen. The state’s population is approximately 4.7 million.
If you live in South Carolina, there’s a very good chance [...]

South Carolina AFL-CIO Leader Bashes Nikki Haley Pinata

ABC News

 

Donna Dewitt, the outgoing president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, is seen in this video bashing a piñata of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’sface while Dewitt and her colleagues were at a retreat in Columbia, S.C. Saturday afternoon.

 

“Well I will say, she looks like a tough old girl here,” Dewitt says as she gears up to swing at the piñata.

She repeatedly hits the piñata, which bears the phrase “Unions are not needed, [...]

Marco Rubio Calls Obama Most ‘Divisive Figure’ in US Politics

Andrew Rafferty
NBC
May 20, 2012

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday slammed President Barack Obama for being the most divisive figure in American politics.

“The man who today occupies the White House and is running for president is a very different person,” Rubio said at a high-profile GOP fundraiser, where he claimed Obama has abandoned the ideals he ran on in 2008. “We have not seen such a divisive figure in modern American [...]

HALEY’S COMET: SC Gov. on Romney Short List

Washington (CNN) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday the leading Republican presidential candidate was carrying a “golden bullet” to connect with women voters.

Speaking on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” the Palmetto State Republican said Mitt Romney’s wife Ann, along with the candidate himself, would need to answer women with concerns about his platform. Polls released in the past week show Romney trailing President Barack Obama by a [...]

REPORT: DOJ targets SC Gov. Nikki Haley

The Department of Justice may indict South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley on charges of tax fraud, according to the Palmetto Public Record, a South Carolina political blog.

PPR reported that a “highly ranked” federal government official “privately confirmed rumblings of an investigation” and the “possible indictment of the governor.” The report said the official, however, could not provide a specific time frame.

Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey told The Daily Caller on Thursday that ”[i]t’s sad in this day [...]

35 Romney endorsers received contributions first

Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but it’s going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.

Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates states have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New [...]

‘I was going blind’: Agony of student, 21, who nearly lost her ear after being bitten by poisonous spider (and the deadly arachnid is spreading across America)

The Brown Recluse spider is known as the most deadly spider in North America, and due to global warming its population is spreading to a town near you.

But nothing can demonstrate the danger of the notorious Loxosceles reclusa than the story of Texas Christian University student Nikki Perez, who was bitten by one such spider in September 2011 – with horrendous results.

‘I thought I’d caught myself with my fingernail or [...]