By fitsnews<\/a><\/strong>
June 5, 2010<\/div>\n
By FITSNews<\/em> || Republican gubernatorial front-runner Nikki Haley and FITS founding editor Will Folks texted each other nearly 200 times over the past ten months according to records provided by Verizon Wireless – not a particularly high volume of communication when compared to the voluminous phone records<\/a><\/strong> that Folks released last week, but enough to raise some eyebrows. One exchange – initiated by Folks – took place on January 3, 2010 while the blogger was in Birmingham, Alabama attending a college football bowl game. That particular 22-message thread began at 12:03 a.m. and ended at 1:05 a.m. Two nights earlier, Haley texted Folks at 12:22 a.m.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n "I spent the night with Mrs. Haley," Marchant said. "We had sexual relations. We had sex. I broke the vows of my marriage." "We had several drinks, we went to dinner, we did go to a couple of bars…you know, it just happened," he said. "It was one time, and one time only."<\/p>\n He says he came forward when he heard Haley deny another allegation of an inappropriate physical relationship.’<\/p>\n "I know she was making some very strong statements about her relationship and it bothered me," Marchant said. "I just didn’t think I could look in the mirror every day and know that I knew something and just keep it to myself."<\/p>\n But there is a point in all of this. Likely as not, Nikki Haley is lying – consciously lying. In 1996, we reelected Bill Clinton under the same circumstances. He ended up being impeached by the House of Representatives and came within a few votes of being convicted by the Senate. Nikki Haley says that she will resign as Governor if this alleged relationship is ever proved.<\/p>\n\n
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Some political stories are of interest because they affect our lives. Others are more tabloid-like – sort of like the stories on what I call "bad person television" – like 20\/20<\/strong> or Dateline<\/strong> or 48hours<\/strong> – stories of liars and cheaters and swindlers and killers. The Nikki Haley story is more in this range of the melodrama of "bad person television." Why would Will Folks, a conservative blogger, and Larry Marchant, a Republican political consultant, both claim to have had flings with Nikki Haley if it wasn’t true? Even if everyone believed them, it would hardly reflect well on their careers.<\/div>\n\n