The University of South Carolina announced Thursday (Sept. 1) that Gov. Nikki Haley’s deputy chief of staff and USC alumnus Trey Walker, ’89, will lead its Statehouse efforts as the new director of state relations.
Walker, with 20 years of experience in government relations and political consulting on the state and national levels, directed legislative affairs [...]
Trey Walker To Direct USC State House Efforts
More On Nikki Haley’s Departing Deputy
As FITS reported exclusively two weeks ago, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs and communications has left her office after just seven-and-a-half months.
Trey Walker, the first member of Haley’s senior staff to step down, is taking a position as a taxpayer-funded lobbyist with the University of South Carolina. Walker was [...]
Top Nikki Haley Deputy Departing
One of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s three deputy chiefs of staff is leaving his post to become a contract lobbyist with the University of South Carolina, sources tell FITS.
Trey Walker – Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – becomes the first senior staffer to leave Haley’s administration.
Details of Walker’s new position [...]
The Haley Salaries
Below are the salaries that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will pay her executive staff in 2011 …
Tim Pearson, Chief of Staff – $125,000
Trey Walker, Deputy Chief of Staff (Communications, Legislative Affairs) – $122,775
Nimrata Randhawa Haley, Agency Head – $106, 078
Swati Patel, Chief Legal Counsel – $102,000
Ted Pitts, Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy and Cabinet Affairs) [...]
GOP Blogs Praise Haley’s Staff Picks
S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley’s decision to appoint a less-than-impressive cast of political operatives to key positions in her administration has been largely panned … although you wouldn’t know it from the scant attention her announcement got from the mainstream media.
Or the effusive praise she’s now receiving from a trio of sympathetic GOP bloggers.
A collection of [...]
Haley Rolls Out Senior Staff
Nikki Haley’s former campaign manager will serve as her chief of staff, the Gov.-elect’s transition office announced on Tuesday.
Political operative Tim Pearson has no experience in state government, but he did have a starring role in the scandals that rocked Haley’s campaign earlier this year.
Specifically, he was the Haley staffer who exchanged dozens of text [...]
McMaster Ordered To Produce Haley Documents
S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster has been ordered to produce phone records, emails, text messages and other correspondence between his office and the campaign of S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley related to the tax case of S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford.
Circuit Court Judge Tommy Cooper issued the ruling on Tuesday in Manning, S.C., where Crawford’s tax trial [...]
SCGOP Activist Posts Remark Disparaging First Lady
A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an “ancestor” of First Lady Michelle Obama.
The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning’s escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla [...]
