Jul 12 2009
Haley Gets Positive Press From Politico
Nikki Haley is the candidate I am supporting for next year’s gubernatorial race. She is only candidate in either party with a record of fiscal responsibility.
Her name is Nikki Haley. A 37-year-old state legislator who is running for governor in 2010, Haley is often compared to another fast-rising Republican star: fellow Indian-American Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana.
The daughter of two immigrants, Haley knocked off South Carolina’s then-longest-serving incumbent to become the first Indian-American Republican elected to a state Legislature. After that upset victory, she again caught the attention of the state’s political establishment last summer by successfully moving to limit voice votes and force state lawmakers to vote on the record, an unpopular move with many of her state House colleagues.
Her socially and fiscally conservative credentials are burnished with strong ratings from the National Rifle Association and the state chapter of the Club for Growth and by her role earlier this year as one of Sanford’s lone legislative allies in trying to reject some federal stimulus funds.
“This stimulus has done nothing more than create additional expenses with no way to pay for them,” Haley told POLITICO. “All it did was mandate new programs.”
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