Purported Haley-Gate Text: 'Your The One Who SCREWED Her'

[Segami]

:smoke:



" South Carolina blogger and political consultant Will Folks has released a series of what he claims are text messages between himself, an AP reporter, another GOP political operative, and the campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley -- with whom Folks claims he had an inappropriate physical relationship.



The texts, posted on Folks site, FITSNews, are dated about 10 days ago and consist of discussions about various reporters working on a story that involves Haley and Folks, and how to kill the story. In one May 15 text, Haley campaign manager Tim Pearson tells Folks "I'm telling you man, we keep this under wraps and nh is going to win."

<http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/05/26/haley-gate-the-storm-before-the-storm/>


Just one of the texts, purportedly sent from GOP operative Wes Donehue to Folks on May 14, actually describes the topic of the story being discussed: "Now, I don't give a fuck of you believe me or not. Your the one who screwed her. You're the one who bragged about it. She's the one who told BJ. Yall point fingers at your own damn selves and leave me the fuck out of it."



According to Folks, "BJ" is B.J. Boling, a staffer for Haley opponent Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-SC).


Folks went public with the alleged affair on Monday in order, he says, to preempt a story by the Columbia Free Times. In one of the purported texts, from May 13, Pearson tells Folks: "Free times apparently called some legislators. Assuming it's hutchins."


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[HughMoran]

1. "You're" fucked, Haley

:rofl:

[Ian David]

2. See also: Claim: (Nikki) Haley (R) had "inappropriate relationship"

Claim: (Nikki) Haley (R) had "inappropriate relationship"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4395394

[MineralMan]

3. Ah, the GOP -- Boinking its way to oblivion.

:rofl:

[Ian David]

4. Digital paper trail offers clues in alleged kiss-and-blog political scandal

Digital paper trail offers clues in alleged kiss-and-blog political scandal

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Blogger and political consultant Will Folks, who claims to have had an "inappropriate physical relationship" with Tea Party backed candidate Nikki Haley, released a raft of damning text messages showing that he collaborated for weeks with Haley's campaign manager to quash the impending revelation of the affair before preemptively confessing to it on his web site Monday. Haley has categorically denied that she had any relationship with Folks, but the text messages—while they don't contain any direct evidence of an affair—certainly don't show Haley's campaign manager Tim Pearson disputing the charge.

The messages show that Pearson and Folks worked together to shut down press speculation about the rumored affair earlier this month after Folks received inquiries about it from reporters for the Columbia Free Times and the Associated Press. Both men accused Wes Donahue, another South Carolina blogger and supporter of one of Haley's primary rivals, of spreading the rumor.

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The texts also show that Haley herself called Folks on May 17, as rumors were swirling, and refer to claims that pictures exist: "Nikki knows about the picture from last year," Folks wrote to Pearson. "Bottom line I don't know that they don't have it. That threat has been made." (This 2007 photograph, of Folks with Haley and Gov. Mark Sanford, has already emerged.)


It’s a framed photo of Mark Sanford, Nikki Haley and Sic Willie following a fundraiser for Haley back in 2007.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/05/25/memories-of-the-way-they-were-2

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Folks—who originally pledged that his confession would be his final comment on the matter—appears to be delighting in the drip-drip nature of the unfolding story. FITSNews has followed up with no less than nine posts on the drama in the past two days, including one virtually daring Haley to sue Folks for libel and another laying out the steps Folks has taken to secure the e-mail, phone, and text message communications he's had with Haley. And he's repeatedly threatened to divulge more evidence. Given today's disclosure, that looks increasingly likely.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100526/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2264

[Thrill]

5. Why not just say. "hey I let him hit it a couple times, it was a mistake"

But it has nothing to do with how I would run the state.

Why people let this drag on is beyond me.