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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 04:48 AM Apr 2012

SC governor's memoir under fire

Gov. Nikki Haley’s new memoir, “Can’t Is Not An Option,” is untruthful or twists many events, a half-dozen S.C. politicians said last week.

Members of Haley’s own Republican Party — including the speaker of the S.C. House and a former lieutenant governor — say allegations against them are “absolutely not true” and “not true at all.” Democrats, including Haley’s 2010 opponent in the governor’s race, describe the book as “fiction.”

Haley’s office said Friday the governor sticks by all the accounts in her memoir. “The governor stands by everything in the book because it’s the truth,” spokesman Rob Godfrey said. And a longtime ally defended Haley’s account.
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Memoirs often are not aimed at those most familiar with the writer’s story, in Haley’s case the citizens of South Carolina. Instead, they often are aimed a broader audience. As her memoir was published, Haley launched a national book tour and media blitz. That stirred speculation Haley was aiming for the vice presidential nomination on the Republican ticket, a job Haley says she will not accept.
However, the memoir makes no mention of some of the controversies that have haunted Haley and that South Carolinians will recall, including her dismissal of Darla Moore from the USC board of trustees.
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Oh, much, much more: http://www.thestate.com/2012/04/15/2235292/south-carolina-governors-memoir.html#storylink=cpy

File it in Fiction or Outright Lyin'.
She has lied about so many things, I stopped listening. Anything she says is suspect.

Can't Is Not An Option And Neither Is Candid

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SC governor's memoir under fire (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Apr 2012 OP
It's all in the apostrophe nxylas Apr 2012 #1
Well played! nt Are_grits_groceries Apr 2012 #2
She has only been Governor a year and she already wrote a memoir? GoCubsGo Apr 2012 #3
BTW... GoCubsGo Apr 2012 #4
I think so. Are_grits_groceries Apr 2012 #5

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
3. She has only been Governor a year and she already wrote a memoir?
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 09:31 AM
Apr 2012

I knew she was full of herself, but this takes the cake.

Gawd, I hope the Mittster picks this little turd as his running mate!

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
4. BTW...
Sun Apr 15, 2012, 09:35 AM
Apr 2012

Shouldn't the book be titled ' "Can't" is Not an Option? ' Is this some vanity press where the editors flunked Grammar class?

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