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Last Friday, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary (in exchange for him promising something he can't promise). On Monday, the Associated Press reported that, in the 1990s, a business run by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital extracted millions of dollars in bonds and utility upgrades from South Carolina in exchange for opening a plant there—only to close the plant and lay off workers shortly after.
Bain's South Carolina job cuts were long before Nikki Haley's time in the public eye. But her endorsement statement focused specifically on jobs and Romney's record of "turn[ing] broken companies around." Yet she has apparently not commented publicly on news of Romney's South Carolina record.
Shouldn't someone be asking Haley what she thinks about the fact that Romney's history of "turning broken companies around" includes shipping jobs out of South Carolina, first to New Hampshire and then overseas, after getting South Carolina to pay to bring the jobs there in the first place?