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http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/reporter-dishes-about-lavish-vaca-nikki
On the day after Labor Day, South Carolina Democrats blasted “Republican” Gov. Nikki Haley for slacking off on the job.
“It has been two weeks since Nikki Haley has shown up for work,” said S.C. Rep. James Smith (D-Richland). “Instead she has been chasing every news camera she can find in Florida and North Carolina, without the slightest concern for our disastrous 9.6 percent unemployment rate.”
South Carolina’s unemployment rate has climbed from 8.9 to 9.6 percent over the last three months. During that time period it has grown nearly three times as fast as the growth of the national rate – which ticked up from 8.1 to 8.3 percent.
Smith – an Afghan War veteran and former House Minority Leader – is one of several Democrats said to be looking at challenging Haley in the event S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen doesn’t seek his party’s nomination again. Sheheen came within four points of defeating Haley two years ago in the mother of all Republican “wave” elections – and is reportedly pondering another run in 2014.
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http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/reporter-dishes-about-lavish-vaca-nikki
Gov. Nikki Haley's weeklong trip to Europe in June in search of "jobs, jobs, jobs" cost South Carolinians more than $127,000. But the governor and her entourage of more than two dozen returned without any finished deals to bring new employers to the Palmetto State.
Haley, who captured the governor's office preaching fiscal restraint, spent the cash so she, her husband and the rest of the state's contingent could stay in five-star hotels; sip cocktails at the Paris Ritz; dine on what an invitation touted as "delicious French cuisine" at a swanky rooftop restaurant; and rub elbows with the U.S. Ambassador to France at his official residence near the French presidential palace.
Instead of asking for a correction (which is what's done when a newspaper gets something wrong), Haley went after the reporter on Laura Ingraham's radio show:
HALEY: God bless that little girl at the "Post and Courier." Her job is to try and create conflict. My job is to create jobs. In the end, I`m going to have jobs to show for it.
Yeah, the jobs created in France. Oui!
What Lawrence didn't cover is how horribly sexist and dismissive this is. This is perhaps the most deplorable thing you can say about a professional woman who challenges you. I'm immune to being called a dude, drag queen or tranny. When I say something funny, I'm often called a lesbian - a compliment to lesbians, for sure. The c-word, the b-word, and the w-word. Calling me ugly, fat, old, stupid, bimbo, ditzy, over-Botoxed etc. etc. etc. I don't even notice anymore. I write under my real name. I have a column that runs in over 85 newspapers and all over the Internets. If I didn't want to be personally insulted by technology empowered strangers, I'd go live in a cabin and tap out my manifesto on a word processor.
But the phrase "little girl," (I've gotten, "silly little girl" twice in my professional career) its like no other. It's hard to think of anything more condescending than calling someone a feckless female child.
Yes, Republicans like to cry "feminist" when its suits them, but Haley sure loves the language of the "get back in the kitchen" crowd.
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