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Staff Report
LEXINGTON – State Rep. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, announced Thursday that she will run for governor in 2010.
“After months of encouragement from supporters all across the state and countless discussions with friends and family, I have decided to run for governor of South Carolina,” Haley said in a statement. “For more than five years, I’ve sat in the Statehouse and watched — sometimes in disbelief — as our state government has spent with abandon and, in the process, wasted taxpayer dollar after taxpayer dollar. I know what good government can look like. I'm running for governor so the people of this state will know what it feels like."
Haley has served in the House since 2004.
Born in Bamberg in 1972, Haley graduated from Clemson University with a degree in accounting and worked as accounting supervisor for Charlotte-based FCR Inc. She then joined her family business, a clothing store where she worked as a teenager, and helped it grow into a multimillion-dollar operation. Since 2008, Haley has served as assistant executive director of Lexington Medical Foundation.
“We’ve got great challenges facing us in South Carolina, but also a world of opportunity,” Haley said. “I have every confidence that, with conservative leadership and a renewed commitment to the principles that have made America great — hard work, traditional values, promoting an atmosphere of opportunity over an environment of bailouts — South Carolina can be transformed into a state that’s not always at the bottom but sits proudly at the top.”
Haley has served on the board of the chambers of commerce of Orangeburg and Lexington counties and as a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Currently, she sits on the board for Mount Horeb United Methodist Church and Medmission. She is a member of the West Metro Republican Women, the Lexington County Republican Party and the National Rifle Association.
Haley and her husband, Michael, live in Lexington with their two children.
Gov. Mark Sanford is serving in his second term as governor and cannot run in 2010.
Published May 15, 2009
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