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Top Sanford ally enters race for South Carolina governor
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| Last Edited | SC Moose May 14, 2009 10:12pm |
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| News Date | Friday, May 15, 2009 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | One of Mark Sanford's top political allies is entering the race to succeed him as South Carolina governor.
Rep. Nikki Haley, a 37-year-old third-term state representative from Lexington, announced her bid on Thursday and immediately signaled that she will assume the Sanford mantle of fiscal conservatism.
"For more than five years I've sat in the statehouse and watched — sometimes in disbelief — as our state government has spent with abandon and in the process wasted taxpayer dollar after taxpayer dollar," Haley said in a statement.
In the state house, she has been a loyal backer of Sanford's small-government initiatives, proposals which have often irked other Republican lawmakers. Haley also plans to hire Sanford's Washington-based political consultant, Jon Lerner, to run her campaign. |
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