TO: Interested Parties FROM: Kristin Sosanie, SCDP Communications Director DATE: August 23, 2013 RE: Plugging

the holes in Team Haleys campaign memo Today, Nikki Haleys pollster released a memo on the state of the 2014 SC governors race. In the memo, Mr. Lerner made big claims about Nikki Haleys growing support since 2010, but had no new poll data or information to back up those claims. So heres the back-up to plug the holes: NIKKI HALEYS GROWING SUPPORT? NOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Savannah voters are surely thankful to Nikki Haley for selling out the Port of Charleston and expanding the Port in Savannah. Haley Received $15K from a Georgia fundraiser prior to port deal that gave Savannah an edge over Charleston and hurt the states economic future. Gov. Nikki Haley faces increasing questions over her role in a decision that helped Savannah gain a competitive advantage over the Port of Charleston, the state's main economic engine. New concerns arose over two recent events: Haley's refusal to attend a Senate hearing next week on the matter, and revelations that she raised $15,000 at a Georgia fundraiser 13 days before the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control approved dredging Savannah's harbor. That Nov. 10 approval came about six weeks after the agency denied the request over water-quality issues the dredging would cause. [Post and Courier, 11/24/11] Florida voters are likely happy with their new jobs because Bi-Lo relocated their corporate HQ to Jacksonville due to the obstacles for existing SC businesses during Nikki Haleys tenure. 130 Lay Offs Announced for South Carolina BI-LO Employees. In March 2013 BI-LO Spokesman Brian Wright said 130 employees were being laid off starting next month because of the company's merger with Winn-Dixie. Bi-Lo LLC bought the Jacksonville, Fla.-based grocery store chain in 2011 for $560 million. The newly merged company will be based in Florida. [Associated Press, 3/26/13] BI-LO Announced Spending $93 Million in Capital Projects, 100 New Jobs for Florida. Mayor Alvin Brown and City and state representatives announced Bi-Lo would receive $6.6 million in incentives to move the headquarters and that the company would add 100 jobs and invest $93 million in capital projects. The deal also included the pledge to keep 900 local WinnDixie jobs at the headquarters, which created more than 1,000 jobs with the additional positions. Brown and JAXUSA Partnership President Jerry Mallot said those headquarters jobs would pay an average $84,000 a year. [Jacksonville Daily Record, 5/13/13] International hackers are likely very supportive of Nikki Haley as they make money off the stolen identities of South Carolinians as a result of the Dept. of Revenue hacking scandal.

Governor Haley waited more than 2 weeks to inform 6.4 million consumers and businesses in South Carolina that their tax information had been hacked under her watch. A computer chief at the S.C. Department of Revenue did not heed warnings about cyber-security shortcomings at that state agency before hackers stole personal financial data belonging to 6.4 million consumers and business, a former agency employee told lawmakers Thursday. [The State, 1/4/13] Parents of children in other states are grateful that they do not live in SC, where Haleys administration kept a TB outbreak at a public school secret for two months while dozens of children were exposed. Top DHEC staffer knew about TB problem in April. Parents in the town are incensed that they werent told about the disease threat until May 28 and that their children werent tested for the disease until May 31. DHEC staffers learned that a school janitor had tuberculosis March 8. He is believed to have spread the disease. Templeton freely acknowledged this week that her agency responded poorly to the tuberculosis threat, telling The State newspaper that DHEC screwed this up. [The State, 7/19/13] Other governors around the nation could be in Haleys camp for her work making them look good by keeping SC at the top of all the bad lists and the bottom of all the good ones. South Carolina has one of the worst economic mobility rates in the country... South Carolina is one of the hardest places to achieve the American Dream, with the third worst economic mobility rate in the country. "Southern states, led by Louisiana and South Carolina, have the worst economic mobility in the country, according to a new study." [Pew Center on the States, 5/10/12]; and is one of the hardest places in the nation to earn a living. South Carolina is the 5th hardest state in the nation to earn a living. "A combination of low wages and high unemployment have landed South Carolina in the bottom 10 twice before, and those conditions persist. In addition, people in the state gave it the country's fifth-worst rating for quality of work environment." [MoneyRates.com, 4/1/13] South Carolina had the second-worst May in the last 10 years, and still has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Pennsylvania experienced the largest over-themonth decrease in non-farm payroll employment (not Seasonally Adjusted) with 9,200 jobs lost, followed by South Carolina (-7,700) and Florida (-6,200), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. [Brevard Times, 6/21/13] South Carolina was ranked fifth-worst country in kids overall wellbeing, dropping nine spots from last year in the economic wellbeing of children. [AP, 6/24/13] Unfortunately for Nikki Haley, none of these out-of-state folks can vote in the SC Governors race. Neither can national Tea Party leaders. Here in South Carolina, voters are upset with the failures, incompetence and political motivations of Nikki Haleys broken government. Lets be honest theres only one reason that a campaign pollster releases a strategy memo with no polls to back their claims up: theres no data to show support for Nikki Haley in South Carolina.