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A second South Carolina GOP political operative has come forward with claims that he slept with Nikki Haley, the Tea Party-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate who is currently leading the polls in the party's primary race.
Larry Marchant, a South Carolina health care lobbyist and campaign consultant for Haley's primary rival, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, claimed yesterday that he and Haley had a "one night stand" at a school-choice conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2008. (Surely this wasn't the first time that a combination of hot libertarian rhetoric and Salt Lake City's notoriously permissive atmosphere have upended marriage bonds?)
Will Folks, a conservative blogger and Haley supporter who once worked for her, announced last week that he'd engaged in an "inappropriate physical relationship" with Haley, who is married. Now that Marchant has come forward, Haley is rapidly becoming a female version of Bill Clinton, batting down "himbo eruptions" left and right and casting herself as the victim of vicious smears.
At a candidate forum last night just hours after Marchant's allegations became public, Haley categorically denied the latest claims and directly accused Bauer of "fishing" the story around earlier this week. Marchant resigned from the Bauer campaign yesterday, and Bauer-who stammered his way through a stiff press appearance seeking to distance himself from the allegations-said he demanded his aide's resignation as soon as Marchant told him his version of what happened in Salt Lake City.
Marchant, whose wife is six months pregnant, told local Columbia, S.C., television station WLTX that he and Haley "spent the night together" after having dinner and drinks at the conference, and that he decided to go public after seeing Haley claim to have been "100 percent faithful" to her husband in rebutting Folks' account.
"It was they way she responded that just really bothered me and compelled me to come forward," he said. "It was gnawing at my soul." Adding to the intrigue is a more conventional political-bedfellows relationship: Marchant is a prominent health care lobbyist and Haley sat on the insurance subcommittee in the South Carolina state legislature at the time of the alleged assignation.
Marchant's accusation is but the latest in a long line of colorful episodes in South Carolina's disorderly political culture. And regardless of how the Haley case ultimately plays out, it seems destined to . As Josh Marshall points out at Talking Points Memo, the Haley case, regardless of how it ultimately plays out, seems destined to break new ground even in the scandal-ridden Palmetto state, since it involves either a serial philanaderess who lies about her affairs with political operatives while decrying the Old Boy network or two married men conspiring to lie about affairs with the candidate in order to derail her campaign.
A second South Carolina GOP political operative has come forward with claims that he slept with Nikki Haley, the Tea Party-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate who is currently leading the polls in the party's primary race.
Larry Marchant, a South Carolina health care lobbyist and campaign consultant for Haley's primary rival, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, claimed yesterday that he and Haley had a "one night stand" at a school-choice conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2008. (Surely this wasn't the first time that a combination of hot libertarian rhetoric and Salt Lake City's notoriously permissive atmosphere have upended marriage bonds?)
Will Folks, a conservative blogger and Haley supporter who once worked for her, announced last week that he'd engaged in an "inappropriate physical relationship" with Haley, who is married. Now that Marchant has come forward, Haley is rapidly becoming a female version of Bill Clinton, batting down "himbo eruptions" left and right and casting herself as the victim of vicious smears.
At a candidate forum last night just hours after Marchant's allegations became public, Haley categorically denied the latest claims and directly accused Bauer of "fishing" the story around earlier this week. Marchant resigned from the Bauer campaign yesterday, and Bauer-who stammered his way through a stiff press appearance seeking to distance himself from the allegations-said he demanded his aide's resignation as soon as Marchant told him his version of what happened in Salt Lake City.
Marchant, whose wife is six months pregnant, told local Columbia, S.C., television station WLTX that he and Haley "spent the night together" after having dinner and drinks at the conference, and that he decided to go public after seeing Haley claim to have been "100 percent faithful" to her husband in rebutting Folks' account.
"It was they way she responded that just really bothered me and compelled me to come forward," he said. "It was gnawing at my soul." Adding to the intrigue is a more conventional political-bedfellows relationship: Marchant is a prominent health care lobbyist and Haley sat on the insurance subcommittee in the South Carolina state legislature at the time of the alleged assignation.
Marchant's accusation is but the latest in a long line of colorful episodes in South Carolina's disorderly political culture. And regardless of how the Haley case ultimately plays out, it seems destined to . As Josh Marshall points out at Talking Points Memo, the Haley case, regardless of how it ultimately plays out, seems destined to break new ground even in the scandal-ridden Palmetto state, since it involves either a serial philanaderess who lies about her affairs with political operatives while decrying the Old Boy network or two married men conspiring to lie about affairs with the candidate in order to derail her campaign.