S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley was supposed to be different … but in so many ways (big spending, faux reforms, lack of transparency, crony capitalism, nepotism, etc.) she’s proven to be every bit as bad as the status quo she campaigned against three years ago.
Worse, actually … because she promised us she was better.
Anyway, the latest example of Haley’s “good ol’ gal” politics? She’s flown her campaign videographer on taxpayer-provided aircraft 43 times over the last two years – and is refusing to reimburse taxpayers for the expense. Not only that her campaign, according to The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper, says it is reserving the right to use this footage in Haley’s campaign commercials.
Sad …
Haley’s liberal use of the state plane has already landed her in trouble previously. After this website reported on the extensive use of this plane by Clemson University football coaches (Haley is a Clemson alma mater), the S.C. House of Representatives passed language banning state colleges and universities from using the state plane to recruit football players.
This week the State Senate proposed selling the planes outright …
Good. We rarely agree with South Carolina’s so-called “Republican” legislators, but chronic abuse of the state planes has gotten totally out-of-hand under Haley and her predecessor, Mark Sanford.
So yeah … sell the damn things (as we’ve previously suggested), put the proceeds into a taxpayer rebate fund (assuming lawmakers ever create one) and then insist on tighter state travel guidelines aimed at ending the rampant abuse we’ve seen from the Haley administration.
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Whose plane to you think Nikki Haley will use in return for “favors”? Or do you think she will waste even more taxpayer dollars by leasing another plane???
Mantena”s, like she did campaigning for the governors job.
Whose plane to you think Nikki Haley will use in return for “favors”? Or do you think she will waste even more taxpayer dollars by leasing another plane???
Mantena”s, like she did campaigning for the governors job.
This is a knee jerk reaction to sell the planes. All it will do is cost us more in the long run. They are still going to fly, were still going to pay for it. The only difference is we (South Carolinians) will be buying commercial tickets or fractional ownership in Marquis Jet/NetJet for the cockroaches and their entourage.
Nobody in Cola really gives a shit. This is just politics. The Democrats could care less about the waste of our money. This is just to embarrass Nikki. If anyone really gave a shit they would enact laws that have criminal penalties for themselves as they do for us.
This is a knee jerk reaction to sell the planes. All it will do is cost us more in the long run. They are still going to fly, were still going to pay for it. The only difference is we (South Carolinians) will be buying commercial tickets or fractional ownership in Marquis Jet/NetJet for the cockroaches and their entourage.
Nobody in Cola really gives a shit. This is just politics. The Democrats could care less about the waste of our money. This is just to embarrass Nikki. If anyone really gave a shit they would enact laws that have criminal penalties for themselves as they do for us.
The problem is not the planes. It is the dishonorable people that we elect.
No one in their right mind would take a campaign videographer with them on the state plane. Many of these videos are suitable for the government site, but many of them were used for campaign/quasi-campaign purposes. Some were used at fundraising parties. Some were used in private emails to introduce her to big, out of state donors.
In any event, she is using taxpayers dollars to subsidize her campaign. That is wrong and against the law.
Sell the crooked politicians, not the plane.
Sell the crooked politicians? I thought they were already bought.
“Sell the crooked politicians, not the plane.”
Great we will get rid of 98%!!!
I’m for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem is not the planes. It is the dishonorable people that we elect.
No one in their right mind would take a campaign videographer with them on the state plane. Many of these videos are suitable for the government site, but many of them were used for campaign/quasi-campaign purposes. Some were used at fundraising parties. Some were used in private emails to introduce her to big, out of state donors.
In any event, she is using taxpayers dollars to subsidize her campaign. That is wrong and against the law.
Sell the crooked politicians, not the plane.
Sell the crooked politicians? I thought they were already bought.
“Sell the crooked politicians, not the plane.”
Great we will get rid of 98%!!!
I’m for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Haley is a Clemson alma mater” Once before Sic Willie told us his degrees were worthless. Here he shows us. Alma mater is the institution from whence one graduated. The graduate is an alumnus if they are male and an alumna if they are female.
“Haley is a Clemson alma mater” Once before Sic Willie told us his degrees were worthless. Here he shows us. Alma mater is the institution from whence one graduated. The graduate is an alumnus if they are male and an alumna if they are female.
IRT your tax payer rebate fund. What are the details of it will work again?
IRT your tax payer rebate fund. What are the details of it will work again?
A full time campaign videographer
Damn what a job
Wonder if she has a full time fluffer
A full time campaign videographer
Damn what a job
Wonder if she has a full time fluffer
Putting free airplanes in front of politicians, university presidents and football coaches is like putting fresh-baked, hot, chocolate chip cookies with pecans in front of 7-year-olds.
Don’t trust anyone with a free airplane.
That goes for Fortune 500 executives, too.
Putting free airplanes in front of politicians, university presidents and football coaches is like putting fresh-baked, hot, chocolate chip cookies with pecans in front of 7-year-olds.
Don’t trust anyone with a free airplane.
That goes for Fortune 500 executives, too.
Put a WART on that nose and you have the perfect and appropriate Halloween costume……..yeech!
Put a WART on that nose and you have the perfect and appropriate Halloween costume……..yeech!
The taxpayer pays for the plane.
The campaign aide was taking video footage for the last two years for the Haley campaign which was about to be used in Haley’s reelection campaign.
The campaign aide has been flying on the plane since January 2010 and Haley asked for ethics commission opinion in Feb 2012 after she was asked about it by a newspaper reporter.
Ethics Commission has no knowledge of the intent or usage of the footage.They only know what they are told by Haley’s people.
The videos are used at out of state fundraisers and in videos introducing Haley to high dollar out of state donors. They were going to be the cruxof the campaign “new media” campaign and TV ads.
This lifelong Republican and GOP political activists says the appropriate action is to get rid of Haley and keep the plane.
The taxpayer pays for the plane.
The campaign aide was taking video footage for the last two years for the Haley campaign which was about to be used in Haley’s reelection campaign.
The campaign aide has been flying on the plane since January 2010 and Haley asked for ethics commission opinion in Feb 2012 after she was asked about it by a newspaper reporter.
Ethics Commission has no knowledge of the intent or usage of the footage.They only know what they are told by Haley’s people.
The videos are used at out of state fundraisers and in videos introducing Haley to high dollar out of state donors. They were going to be the cruxof the campaign “new media” campaign and TV ads.
This lifelong Republican and GOP political activists says the appropriate action is to get rid of Haley and keep the plane.
Obviously ……the problem that Mrs Haley is having is very evident. Its not the planes or the use of taxpayer funded “assets”. She has not been versed in the “Andre Agassi” school of theatrics…!!
She sure does know how to use her “image” …….
Obviously ……the problem that Mrs Haley is having is very evident. Its not the planes or the use of taxpayer funded “assets”. She has not been versed in the “Andre Agassi” school of theatrics…!!
She sure does know how to use her “image” …….
At least I did not have to cheat my way through college.
At least I did not have to cheat my way through college.