It’s still looking like a bloodbath is coming our way on November 2nd, but a lot of the races are very, very close. One race that is about to get interesting is the South Carolina gubernatorial contest.
In an affidavit released this afternoon by FITSNews’ Will Folks, the controversial blogger and one-time spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford provides new details about his claims that he had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley.
According to the affidavit, Haley and Folks “shared [their] first kiss while sitting in her parked car outside of MacDougal’s restaurant and bar” in Columbia. The kiss reportedly took place in 2007.
Following the kiss, the pair allegedly drove to a “parking lot behind the neighborhood center at Emily Douglas Park, where [they] parked for approximately 45 minutes. There we slid back the seats of her Cadillac SUV so that Rep. Haley could climb on top of me.”
Folks also claims that following that first encounter, he saw Haley numerous times during Spring 2007, with most of the encounters taking place at his downtown Columbia apartment. He also states that other “romantic encounters occurred in her SUV (including one in the parking lot of the S.C. Policy Council) and in her Statehouse office.”
The problem is that Nikki Haley was married at the time of this affair. During the primaries, when Folks first made these allegations, it was possible to see it as a dirty trick carried out because Folks supported a different candidate. But now that we’re in the general election, that theory no longer makes much sense. There are phone records that tend to support Folks’s story. I don’t know what his motive is, but it may be as simple as that he thinks the public should know that Haley is an adulteress before they vote for her.
Why are more details coming out now? Is it because that’s what Folks wanted to do? If so, it would seem others knew of these affidavits before.
Well, they are coming out now because Folks sent the affidavit to the news source.
Come on, folks. It’s not a real scandal until they have pictures of Nicki on her nees.
Who owns the voting machines in South Carolina?
A friend of Alvin Greene.
I’ve been following this story since it first broke during the primaries (I have relatives who are dialed into SC politics). Folks comes off like a total sleazebag, egomaniac and cad.
I think he’s piping up now because he didn’t appreciate being called a liar by Haley and losing what status he had as a GOP operative. He may have good reason to be pissed at Haley — it sounds like they probably did have thing, and he appears to be enough of an egomaniac to be stung by the fact that his original revelations were a mere speed-bump on Haley’s road to the nomination.
If I were a SC voter, I’d vote for the Democrat, of course. But as much as I’d like to see each and every Palin-endorsed “Mama Grizzly” crash and burn, part of me is somewhat glad a scuzzbucket like Folks cannot outright sink her candidacy.
Add to that the fact that old goons within Haley’s party eagerly jumped on Folks’ allegations and added their racist slop to his brew, and damned if I don’t find myself half-rooting for Haley just to spite those assholes.
Has adultery ever hurt any GOP politician? It will be interesting to see if that same impunity holds for a female. What a country.
It hurt Newt Gingrich.
True. Kind of a special case, tho.
In acknowledgment of these events, Cadillac will rename its Escalade the Adulterade.
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