Haley’s daughter gets state job; questions of nepotism

[cnredd]

How much do the Democrats and media (redundancy alert) hate this Republican governor?...

Haley’s daughter gets state job; questions of nepotism

Gov. Nikki Haley’s 14-year-old daughter is working in the State House gift shop, raising questions about nepotism that the governor’s office declines to answer.

The shop is run by the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, a state agency whose director, Duane Parrish, is appointed by Haley.

Parks, Recreation and Tourism officials last week referred questions by The State about the teen’s job, including whether it was in the agency’s budget, to the governor’s office.

Starting on July 16 and continuing as recently as Wednesday, the governor’s office would not answer The State’s questions about young Haley’s job and nepotism, citing safety concerns. Instead, it admonished The State for asking questions.

“The State newspaper ... should be ashamed for printing details of a 14 year old’s life and whereabouts, against the wishes of her parents and the request of the chief of SLED, who is ultimately responsible for her security,” Haley’s spokesman, Rob Godfrey, said in a statement to the newspaper July 17. “We have nothing more to say.”

Haley’s office did a turn-around Wednesday, giving some of the requested information to another newspaper, The (Charleston) Post and Courier.

Godfrey told the Charleston paper that Haley’s daughter usually works 20 to 25 hours a week and is paid $8 an hour, the same as all entry-level workers at the gift shop. The hours of other gift shop workers were not cut to accommodate the daughter’s position, he said.

A Parks, Recreation and Tourism spokesman, who last week referred The State’s questions to the governor’s office, told the Charleston paper that Haley’s daughter is one of seven to 12 workers in the gift shop who clean and stock shelves. The teen’s job was not advertised, he added, calling that standard procedure for seasonal positions.

The governor’s office still has not responded to questions about nepotism.

State law allows a 14 year old to work up to 40 hours a week between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. when school is out.

However, state law prohibits public officials from causing the employment of a family member to a position they supervise or manage, according to the State Ethics Commission.

Haley does not supervise the gift shop. Instead, she supervises the agency that operates it.

The issue is not Haley’s daughter but the Republican governor’s judgment, said Dick Harpootlian, chairman of the S.C. Democratic Party.

“You don’t use your position to get your daughter a job. It’s not about the daughter. It’s about lack of judgment by the governor,” Harpootlian said. “The appearance of impropriety doesn’t seem to bother the governor."

Not even impropriety of a governor's daughter working at a gift shop...

Just the APPEARANCE of impropriety (of which there is NONE) is enough to get the chairman of the state Democrat Party to comment and the largest newspaper to actually write a story about it...

Just a reminder...Pelosi's husbands can make MILLIONS off of her decisions, but the line stops at the gift shop...

It's a good thing the daughter didn't open up a lemonade stand with an allowance she got from the governor's pay...I imagine they'd just take her out back and shoot her...

[Dave1]

Not enough good cheese to go along with that hypocritical whine......


Good find.....

[MrLiberty]

What a bunch of shallow bastards, going after a 14 Y.O. daughter of the governor for having the audacity to work at the gift shop.

[dabateman]

I'm still confused as to how this is "going after the daughter". It's not really the daughter that is the issue. It's the director of the department that gave the daughter a job that is an issue. He's an appointment of the governor.

You know MrLiberty, you tried to use quid pro quo in another thread, but really, it applies here.

Haley gives director a job. Director gives Haley's daughter a job.

[Infidel Dog]

Originally Posted by dabateman

I'm still confused as to how this is "going after the daughter". It's not really the daughter that is the issue. It's the director of the department that gave the daughter a job that is an issue. He's an appointment of the governor.

You know MrLiberty, you tried to use quid pro quo in another thread, but really, it applies here.

Haley gives director a job. Director gives Haley's daughter a job.

Yeah, cause you can't give a kid a government connected job if her name happens to be Haley. Now if her name had been Kennedy...

[dabateman]

Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

Yeah, cause you can't give a kid a job if her name happens to be Haley. Now if her name had been Kennedy...

You can't give the governor's family jobs without expecting questions to be asked. I don't care the family, the affiliation, etc...

[Dave1]

Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

Yeah, cause you can't give a kid a government connected job if her name happens to be Haley.

~ Now if her name had been Kennedy...

~ Bingo......


Your contention is valid.......

History is on your side......

[MrLiberty]

Originally Posted by dabateman

I'm still confused as to how this is "going after the daughter". It's not really the daughter that is the issue. It's the director of the department that gave the daughter a job that is an issue. He's an appointment of the governor.

You know MrLiberty, you tried to use quid pro quo in another thread, but really, it applies here.

Haley gives director a job. Director gives Haley's daughter a job.

That's because it applies there. Here it is just a democrat trying to make something of the fact a 14 year old is working at a gift shop. Now I'm sure if her last name was obama it would have been perfectly OK.

And, being of Indian blood I'd say this is a bit of racism on the part of the dems too. I see a lot of hate in there as well, and I think this is just another case of the lefts war on women.

[dabateman]

Originally Posted by MrLiberty

That's because it applies there.

If you think it applies there, then you need to learn the meaning of quid pro quo.

Here it is just a democrat trying to make something of the fact a 14 year old is working at a gift shop.

False again. It really has nothing to do with the fourteen year old girl. It has to do with the fact that the Governor appointed a man to oversee that division of government. In turn, that man HIRED (means he's paying the daughter with government funds.) the daughter of the governor. That's not just a little nepotism, that's a lot of nepotism.

Now I'm sure if her last name was obama it would have been perfectly OK.

I don't care if her last name is Obama, Haley, Kennedy, Salazar, or Smith. It doesn't matter. Any public officials doing the exact same thing should be asked the exact same questions.

And, being of Indian blood I'd say this is a bit of racism on the part of the dems too. I see a lot of hate in there as well, and I think this is just another case of the lefts war on women.

Of course... It would only make perfect sense for you to reject reality, conflate facts, desperately try to differentiate, and yet still get proven wrong and THEN insert accusations of racism, sexism, etc.

It's nepotism pure and simple.

[MrLiberty]

Originally Posted by dabateman

If you think it applies there, then you need to learn the meaning of quid pro quo.



False again. It really has nothing to do with the fourteen year old girl. It has to do with the fact that the Governor appointed a man to oversee that division of government. In turn, that man HIRED (means he's paying the daughter with government funds.) the daughter of the governor. That's not just a little nepotism, that's a lot of nepotism.



I don't care if her last name is Obama, Haley, Kennedy, Salazar, or Smith. It doesn't matter. Any public officials doing the exact same thing should be asked the exact same questions.





Of course... It would only make perfect sense for you to reject reality, conflate facts, desperately try to differentiate, and yet still get proven wrong and THEN insert accusations of racism, sexism, etc.

It's nepotism pure and simple.

You don't even do a good song and dance anymore......