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No money in SC budget to fund 2012 GOP primary
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jun 23, 2011 08:57pm |
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| News Date | Friday, June 24, 2011 02:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | South Carolina will not fund the state GOP's first-in-the-South presidential primary in February, leaving officials scrambling to sort out who will pay for it.
The Republican Party insists the primary will go on, even if the GOP must come up with as much as $1.5 million to run it.
"In no way is this primary in jeopardy," said Matt Moore, the state GOP's executive director.
The party could go back to running the primary with paper ballots and volunteers, which is how it was done until 2008. That year, Republicans and Democrats pushed for and won state funding for the wide-open White House primaries and the state election commission started running them.
But Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, a conservative who has been making a name for herself nationally, insists that taxpayer funds be used only for what she calls core functions. She told lawmakers earlier this year that those functions don't include primaries.
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