SC Tea-Party Governor Smacked Down by Repblican House and Senate.

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Lawmakers override Haley vetoes, governor protests


COLUMBIA -- Money for education, public television and the arts was restored to South Carolina's $6 billion budget Wednesday as Republicans who run the state Legislature brushed aside GOP Gov. Nikki Haley's first budget vetoes.

The veto overrides -- some coming amid little discussion and others evoking sharp criticism of the first-term governor -- will keep taxpayer dollars flowing to organizations and programs that said they would be doomed without the aid. In some cases, the governor had said groups such as state Arts Commission and South Carolina Education Television should rely on private donations instead of tax money.

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Meanwhile, the House and Senate also overrode a Haley veto of a separate bill spending $108 million in reserve funds for items that include college maintenance, police gear and training programs for workers, including those taking jobs at the new Boeing Co. plant in Charleston.

At the end of the day, Haley kept a tiny fraction of her $213 million veto total from the two bills and she wanted voters to know about it.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jun/29/lawmakers-override-haley-vetoes-governor-protests/

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1. He he. Are you in SC? I am, and this governor is particularly arrogant -

She's just like some kind of dictator or something, issuing decrees.

This is hard for me to say, but I actually appreciate the repubs in the legislature taking a stand to protect things like the arts, educational tv, and education in general. She has evidently made some real enemies in the legislature, among members of her own party, with her arrogance. Hell, McConnell (SC Senate Repub biggie) just sued her for ordering the Senate back into session because they hadn't finished work on her issues, and the SC Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling that her order was unconstitutional. She's been in office for six months. I don't think this ends well for her, but it's still hard for me to imagine SC will actually vote a Dem into the position, even though we came damn close last year. Anyway, it's fun to watch this admin implode.

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2. Nikki Haley is more Tea Party than republican. And from what I understand,

SC republicans have their own way of doing things and don't take to interlopers no matter what they call themselves.

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3. Yeah, the good ole boy network

They never liked Haley, as a woman of non-white ethnicity (half-Indian, IIRC). The Repugs are doing the right thing for once, but for entirely the wrong reasons.

[laureloak]

4. Really now, the woman is doing a lousy job and it has nothing to

do with her race.

[nxylas]

6. I know that

But that's not why the Goopers hate her. They've never worried about their governors doing a crappy job provided they're the "right" race and gender.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Nope.

Both of this incompetent boob's parents are from India. But, yes, they did the right thing for the wrong reasons. But, in this rethug hellhole, you take what you can get when the gettin's good, regardless of the motives.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Actually...

They (the state legislature) dislike her because because she is a protege of Mark Sanford, whom they also could not stand.

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5. Well, she "protested" - isn't that nice.

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