haley and her entourage spent at least, at least $127,000 on a trip to europe in june in search of, quote, jobs, jobs, jobs. the first place nikki haley decided to go to look for jobs for south carolinians was, of course, paris. a place that every republican knows is full of people who want to set up businesses in south carolina. perhaps the let s go looking for jobs in paris strategy explains why nikki haley s state has a higher unemployment rate than the national average, almost twofold percentage points above the national average. renee dudley s reporting details how nikki haley chose to stay in five-star hotels and run up a bar bill at the paris ritz, provoking the south carolina democratic party chairman, dick harputlian to be quoted in renee dudley s article as saying,
single fact reported by renee dudley. not one word, not one sentence. she has not disputed anything in renee dudley s original reporting. now, i for one am not horrified by her average daily hotel bill on the european trip or any of the expenses listed in renee dudley s report which as i said remains uncontested for accuracy. i actually think foreign travel by american government officials is a good thing. i especially think republicans need to learn more, a lot more, about france. a country they normally use as a punch line of their empty headed jingoistic jokes about the world we live in. and i m an admitted socialist in a country where people like nikki haley are simply socialism condemners who constantly make socialistic choices and actually support socialistic programs.
time for tonight s rewrite. nikki haley, republican governor of south carolina and a rising star in the republican party, is in trouble. she did something inappropriate to a little girl and she got caught doing it. now she says she regrets it but still hasn t been able to bring herself to apologize either publicly or to the little girl. little girl s name is rene dudley and she is 25 years old. what haley did that haley now calls inappropriate is call rene dudley a little girl. because haley didn t like the article renee dudley wrote for charleston, south carolina s daily post courier under the headline, european vacation or legitimate business? in the fully researched meticulously reported piece, renee dudley revealed nikki
government intervening in the marketplace is not a capitalist idea. government inserting itself into the marketplace in a hea heavy-handed way through begging or special tax deals, trying to influence business decisions, private business decisions, to suit the government s current mood is a purely, purely socialistic idea. there is, at least, one republican in south carolina who understands this. south carolina republican state senator tom davis said this in renee dudley s article. if you get the fundamental things right, solid education and health care, capital will come to the state. davis said those are the functions of government, not creating jobs. it s a socialist state when the government s core function is to create jobs. well, at least he s half right. he s calling health care one of
not one word, not one sentence. she has not disputed anything in renee dudley s original reporting. now, i for one am not horrified by her average daily hotel bill on the european trip or any of the expenses listed in renee dudley s report which as i said remains uncontested for accuracy. i actually think foreign travel by american government officials is a good thing. i especially think republicans need to learn more, a lot more, about france. a country they normally use as a punch line of their empty headed jingoistic jokes about the world we live in. and i m an admitted socialist in a country where people like nikki haley are simply socialism condemners who constantly make socialistic choices and actually support socialistic programs.