S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley got an earful from Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley at a Democratic “issues conference” this weekend – receiving all sorts of criticism for being a “Tea Party governor.”
“They run on a platform claiming government isn’t working,” O’Malley said of Haley. “Then when they’re in office, their own failure to do the job proves their point.”
Hmmmm … we’re not gonna argue with O’Malley about Haley being a failure, but we’d argue it’s due to the fact she’s strayed from her limited government campaign promises.
Seriously … the “Tea Party” was done with Haley less than six months into her term … and they’re still furious with her.
Anyway, that didn’t stop O’Malley from rattling off a few of Haley’s “greatest hits.”
“Your current Governor – bless her heart,” he said. “Creating jobs at Georgia’s Port of Savannah instead of creating jobs at South Carolina’s Port of Charleston … failing to take basic cyber security precautions to protect 3.6 million Social Security numbers … waiting nearly two weeks to tell hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians that their credit card data had been hacked and stolen … how’s all that working for South Carolina?”
Those are valid points … none of which were addressed by “Team Trikki” in their response.
“He should go back to Maryland where he quite successfully legalized gambling, gay marriage, the end of the death penalty, and hiked taxes on everyone and everything he could think of,” Haley’s political guru Tim Pearson told CNN in response to O’Malley’s remarks.
Wait … government barring churches from marrying who they want and maintaining a monopoly on gambling are good things?
Anyway, prior to O’Malley’s visit, Republican and Democratic partisans battled over which state – South Carolina or Maryland – was better off.
How “middle school” of them, right?
And how pointless … after all, unless South Carolina is up against Mississippi it’s not likely to win any state v. state competitions.
The goal of all this trash talk? Softening Haley up for S.C. Sen. Vincent Sheheen (D-Camden), who is likely to run against her again in 2014.
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Trash talk for SC trashy Gov.
She is a failure and I, as a tea party activist , am finished with her. I’m not a Democrat, will give Sheheen a serious look see. I think he would have been better than Haley, would not have agreed with him on everything; but, hardly agree with Haley on anything. She is a fraud and a total disaster!
Surrounding herself with incompetence, immoral and unethical people like, Peelers, Templeton, Adams, Keel, Kitzman!!!
I like Sheheen myself!
…but I bet she can really eat ass!
Trash talk for SC trashy Gov.
She is a failure and I, as a tea party activist , am finished with her. I’m not a Democrat, will give Sheheen a serious look see. I think he would have been better than Haley, would not have agreed with him on everything; but, hardly agree with Haley on anything. She is a fraud and a total disaster!
Surrounding herself with incompetence, immoral and unethical people like, Peelers, Templeton, Adams, Keel, Kitzman!!!
I like Sheheen myself!
…but I bet she can really eat ass!
The original six is a wonderfully original idea to get around campaign contribution laws. it allows contributors to give above the max campaign contributions to her efforts, allows her to command state government resourses for her benefit, gets her substantial tax benefits for her “contributions” and gets great publicity. Dam wondeful play.
The profof is in the puddin. Let’s look at the books and see who got the money. Lets also ask her to show ALL of her pacs and campaign money at one time. Do that and even that moronic State Newspaper might get this story. Nah…they will miss it but others won’t.
Why is the contact phone number for the Original Six a land line based in Bamberg?
The original six is a wonderfully original idea to get around campaign contribution laws. it allows contributors to give above the max campaign contributions to her efforts, allows her to command state government resourses for her benefit, gets her substantial tax benefits for her “contributions” and gets great publicity. Dam wondeful play.
The profof is in the puddin. Let’s look at the books and see who got the money. Lets also ask her to show ALL of her pacs and campaign money at one time. Do that and even that moronic State Newspaper might get this story. Nah…they will miss it but others won’t.
Why is the contact phone number for the Original Six a land line based in Bamberg?
She has whored out that office like I have never seen before. Her people shook my boss and wife down for the max and they can’t get her or her people on the phone now. They have to call other pols to get stuff done for them. Boss says that is how she rolls.
Just like sissy.
She has whored out that office like I have never seen before. Her people shook my boss and wife down for the max and they can’t get her or her people on the phone now. They have to call other pols to get stuff done for them. Boss says that is how she rolls.
Just like sissy.
I agree with the criticism about Haley helping the Georgia Ports Authority.
There are now THREE holdover SC State Ports Authority board members; i.e., whose 7-year terms have expired.
Quietly attending SPA board meetings, collecting their $1K per meeting stipend, hoping nobody raises the obvious issue: “These folks’ appointments have expired.”
Now that Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Larry Grooms (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=0729545367) isn’t busy running for Congress, he can do his duty and request of the Governor her slate of replacement members.
The SCSPA board is out-of-control, answers to no person, and has, really, no members with working knowledge of that it does and makes it work: marine terminal operations, stevedoring, truck and rail transport, warehousing and logistics, steamship operations, or cost accounting.
SCSPA DOES have lots of lawyers, consultants, real estate tycoons and professional politicians (McMaster and Floyd).
Grooms was primary sponsor of Senate Bill S. 351 (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/351.htm), which became effective June 16, 2009, that supposedly replaced the existing “hail Mary,” rubber-stamp, “approve-my-friend” board approval process with the “New Orleans Model” requiring real experience in the shipping industry specified in Section 54-3-60(A) and (B).
Grooms overlooked these provisions when he got the McMaster and Floyd applications, and shame on him.
Now that he’s got time to do things right, I hope he does just that.
And please, please, replace those two yes-men, John Hassell and Whit Smith when THEIR terms expire, too. Alec Poitevint and Curtis Foltz (GPA) tell jokes about those imbeciles.
No more business as usual, OK, Larry?
+10
I agree with the criticism about Haley helping the Georgia Ports Authority.
There are now THREE holdover SC State Ports Authority board members; i.e., whose 7-year terms have expired.
Quietly attending SPA board meetings, collecting their $1K per meeting stipend, hoping nobody raises the obvious issue: “These folks’ appointments have expired.”
Now that Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Larry Grooms (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=0729545367) isn’t busy running for Congress, he can do his duty and request of the Governor her slate of replacement members.
The SCSPA board is out-of-control, answers to no person, and has, really, no members with working knowledge of that it does and makes it work: marine terminal operations, stevedoring, truck and rail transport, warehousing and logistics, steamship operations, or cost accounting.
SCSPA DOES have lots of lawyers, consultants, real estate tycoons and professional politicians (McMaster and Floyd).
Grooms was primary sponsor of Senate Bill S. 351 (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/351.htm), which became effective June 16, 2009, that supposedly replaced the existing “hail Mary,” rubber-stamp, “approve-my-friend” board approval process with the “New Orleans Model” requiring real experience in the shipping industry specified in Section 54-3-60(A) and (B).
Grooms overlooked these provisions when he got the McMaster and Floyd applications, and shame on him.
Now that he’s got time to do things right, I hope he does just that.
And please, please, replace those two yes-men, John Hassell and Whit Smith when THEIR terms expire, too. Alec Poitevint and Curtis Foltz (GPA) tell jokes about those imbeciles.
No more business as usual, OK, Larry?
+10
It’s difficult to watch you clinging to the vestiges of a tea party that no longer exists(and never really did),while you’re also in the grips of the Haley-PTSD. F U C K H E R !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBm4uBTYl0
It’s difficult to watch you clinging to the vestiges of a tea party that no longer exists(and never really did),while you’re also in the grips of the Haley-PTSD. F U C K H E R !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBm4uBTYl0
Politicians set up systems so they do not have to tell the truth. For example, why did Alan Wilson not sign his campaign ethics disclosure? Because he did not have to.the politicians set it up so they always have deniability. Blame it on an intern works every time. It will be the same with the Haley group. She will sign nothing. So being a pol means never have to be responsible.
Politicians set up systems so they do not have to tell the truth. For example, why did Alan Wilson not sign his campaign ethics disclosure? Because he did not have to.the politicians set it up so they always have deniability. Blame it on an intern works every time. It will be the same with the Haley group. She will sign nothing. So being a pol means never have to be responsible.
Nim via Mark. Remember that.
Nim via Mark. Remember that.
She and her appointees are trash. Normally I would be defensive of outsiders criticizing the home team, but this woman gives no incentive to protect her.
She and her appointees are trash. Normally I would be defensive of outsiders criticizing the home team, but this woman gives no incentive to protect her.
OK you have done it again
Now, here is the Official Picture of the greatest Governor the State of South Carolina has ever had, period !!!!!
My bad, wrong picture
Damned if that ain’t Raj.
OK you have done it again
Now, here is the Official Picture of the greatest Governor the State of South Carolina has ever had, period !!!!!
My bad, wrong picture
Damned if that ain’t Raj.
She has definately whored out the office! What would you expect from a woman of her moral and ethical persuasion?
She is the female equivalent of O’Bama. Nothing that comes out of either her mouth, nor O’Bama’s mouth can be trusted. They both use their office and position to reward their ilk of incompetent slugs. neither ae truly American! They say one thing and habitually do another, lie constantly and could give a damn less about the State, or Country. it is ALL about them!
She has definately whored out the office! What would you expect from a woman of her moral and ethical persuasion?
She is the female equivalent of O’Bama. Nothing that comes out of either her mouth, nor O’Bama’s mouth can be trusted. They both use their office and position to reward their ilk of incompetent slugs. neither ae truly American! They say one thing and habitually do another, lie constantly and could give a damn less about the State, or Country. it is ALL about them!
The Tea Party doesn’t like Nikki, for good reason — but then they have screwed the pooch anyway. I agree with the pervy guy (he’s not just gay, he’s a total perv, or pretends to be) about it being sad to watch you cling to the TP thing, Sic. If there was ever any good in it, it’s been destroyed forever. And I used to spend a lot of time defending them. They are even more dysfunctional than the GOP, and that’s saying something. Take the worst aspects of a theocrat, a neocon, a nazi, and a “Coast-To-Coast” conspiracy nut, mix them with a shitty attitude turned bad, put ’em in an unattractive over-65 body and that’s the average Tea Party member
Or is that just the Myrtle Beach variety?.
Nah, it’s state-wide.
The Tea Party doesn’t like Nikki, for good reason — but then they have screwed the pooch anyway. I agree with the pervy guy (he’s not just gay, he’s a total perv, or pretends to be) about it being sad to watch you cling to the TP thing, Sic. If there was ever any good in it, it’s been destroyed forever. And I used to spend a lot of time defending them. They are even more dysfunctional than the GOP, and that’s saying something. Take the worst aspects of a theocrat, a neocon, a nazi, and a “Coast-To-Coast” conspiracy nut, mix them with a shitty attitude turned bad, put ’em in an unattractive over-65 body and that’s the average Tea Party member
Or is that just the Myrtle Beach variety?.
Nah, it’s state-wide.
All I can say is that I feel really sorry for her kids.
All I can say is that I feel really sorry for her kids.
The 2014 election in SC will have two GOP US Senators, 1 GOP Governor, all GOP US House Representatives on the ballot at the same time. There is no way people will split their ballot for Sheheen. Just saying.
IF a few thousand more people split there ballot last time, there never would have been a Governor Haley.
MANY MORE than that have wised up since.
The 2014 election in SC will have two GOP US Senators, 1 GOP Governor, all GOP US House Representatives on the ballot at the same time. There is no way people will split their ballot for Sheheen. Just saying.
IF a few thousand more people split there ballot last time, there never would have been a Governor Haley.
MANY MORE than that have wised up since.
Can’t fault the man for being right…..points to O’Malley.
Can’t fault the man for being right…..points to O’Malley.
Full video of Gov O’Malley’s remarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdbGs_s3BnQ&feature=youtu.be
Full video of Gov O’Malley’s remarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdbGs_s3BnQ&feature=youtu.be
If Maryland is so wonderful, how come my subdivision in S Carolina is loaded with people from Maryland that moved away?
If Maryland is so wonderful, how come my subdivision in S Carolina is loaded with people from Maryland that moved away?