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EXCLUSIVE: Captain Katherine Jenerette Gives A Woman’s View From AfghanistanAbout Katherine: Katherine Jenerette is Captain in the US Army Reserve and a paratrooper from North Myrtle Beach, SC. She is serving with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division ‘Task Force Arctic Wolves’ in the Horn of Panjwa’i in one of the most volatile districts in Kandahar Province (and Afghanistan). She is a former U.S. Congressional Field Representative for South Carolina’s First District and a North Myrtle Beach Planning Commissioner and was a Candidate for US Congress in 2010. Katherine was recently name as one of THE 45...

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is facing her first big lawsuit after saying the state would try to keep unions out of the Boeing Inc. plant in North Charleston. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston by the International Association of Machinists and AFL-CIO asked for a court order telling Haley and her director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation to butt out and remain neutral in matters concerning union activities. "There's no secret I don't like the unions," Haley said when asked about the litigation. "We are a right-to-work state. I will do everything...

Question: Just heard about black Republican candidate Tim Scott in South Carolina's first district. Is he a Tea Party, true conservative? Would consider giving to his campaign. Any info would be appreciated.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The operator of a South Carolina toll highway sought bankruptcy protection on Thursday in a rare filing by a municipal entity under Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.Connector 2000 Association Inc filed for protection with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with more than $200 million of bonds outstanding, court records showed.The nonprofit had been set up in 1996 by the South Carolina Department of Transportation to operate the 16 mile "Southern Connector" toll road in Greenville County, and build an extension to South Carolina Highway 153, records showed.Revenue, however, fell short of...

The Revolt Against Cronyism By Lee Harris Thursday, June 24, 2010 Filed under: Government & Politics, Public Square What the South Carolina Republican primary means. Just when we think we have a handle on the Tea Party, it immediately slips out of our grasp. Up until quite recently, the Tea Party was widely accepted as a racist movement made up of grumpy old white men only interested in keeping their pockets well-lined. Then, only this week, the Tea Party pulls the tea tray right from under us by helping Nikki Haley, a woman of Sikh descent, and Tim Scott, a...

Nikki Haley hasn't suffered any damage whatsoever after accusations of multiple extramarital affairs and is headed for an easy first place finish in Tuesday's Republican primary for Governor of South Carolina. Haley has a 20 point lead, getting 43% of the vote. Gresham Barrett looks like the favorite for the second runoff spot. He's at 23%, followed by Henry McMaster at 16%, and Andre Bauer at 12%. Two weeks ago Haley held a 21 point lead in the race. Since then she's gained 4 points, Barrett's standing has improved by 7, McMaster's has dropped by a couple points, and Bauer's...

POSTED ON JUNE 4, 2010, AT 3:50 PM Nikki Haley greets a supporter. Photo: Nikkihaley.com SEE ALL 4 PHOTOS Best Opinion: Palmetto State Politics, Washington Monthly, Riehl World View Though she still holds a double-digit lead in the polls, Nikki Haley's bid for South Carolina's Republican governorship has grown increasingly fraught. Fresh accusations about her infidelity have emerged from political lobbyist Larry Marchant — which, like the earlier claims, the Tea Party-endorsed Haley has denied — and senior Republican senator Jake Dodds stirred up a racial storm yesterday by labeling the candidate, who is of Indian descent, a "raghead" on...

<p>Haley is of Indian-American descent.</p> <p>State Sen. Jake Knotts, who backs Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in the four-way Republican primary battle, made the remark during an interview on “Pub Politics,” a popular online political talk show in Columbia.</p> <p>“We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion,” Knotts said, according to multiple people present for the broadcast.</p>

You don't know what ugly politics is unless you go to South Carolina. Sure, they play dirty in Chicago, and everything will be thrown at you in New Orleans and Boston. But South Carolina plays politics like a feeding frenzy at a pig sty. For those of you that don't know, Nikki Haley is the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina. The old boy Republican establishment really, really hates this fact. Haley ran as an outsider in a state that is as old fashioned as any...and shocked the world. As a member of the state...

Could a blogger’s claim of an affair with a GOP gubernatorial frontrunner end up being a non-factor? Hilton Head Island, S.C. — Three weeks ago, South Carolina state representative Nikki Haley was one of the Republican party’s brightest rising stars: the first Indian-American GOP state legislator in the country, a reformer who demonstrated a willingness to take on her own party over accountability, and a surprise front-running gubernatorial candidate. A November victory would make her instantly a subject of presidential-ticket talk for either 2012 or 2016. Today, more than a week after a bombshell accusation of an affair that made...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina lobbyist resigned from a rival political campaign on Wednesday and then became the second man to claim he had a tryst with a Republican lawmaker trying to become the state's first female governor.

The Club for Growth today released the following memorandum from Adam Geller, CEO of National Research Inc., about the findings of a new poll conducted in South Carolina’s first congressional district. TO: THE CLUB FOR GROWTH FROM: ADAM GELLER RE: SURVEY RESULTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1 DATE: MAY 26, 2010 Tim Scott holds a very strong lead over his opponents in the multi candidate primary in the First congressional district. His image rating is also better than those of his opponents and he leads among those surveyed who have a favorable opinion of competing candidates. Finally, Scott is...

South Carolina U.S. Congressional Candidate Katherine Jenerette on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman. Friday May 28 and again Monday May 31, 2010. Tune in Monday on Memorial Day at 7:00pm Eastern time to watch Katherine Jenerette on FOX Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman. As part of an episode-long salute to veterans, David Asman kicked off the May 28 edition of Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard by hosting four veterans who are running for Congress – South Carolina’s Katherine Jenerette, Florida’s Allen West, Michigan’s Brian Rooney, and Adam Kinzinger from Illinois .Asman describerd them as a “refreshing voice...