Stephen Colbert’s Sister To Run For Tim Scott’s House Seat
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, an administrator at Clemson University, will file papers for the South Carolina special election. “Our best chance to beat Sanford.”
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5 People Who Might Replace Tim Scott In The House
With Rep. Tim Scott moving to the Senate, a special election for his seat is on the horizon.
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6 Things To Know About The First Black Republican In The Senate In 33 Years
Rep. Tim Scott, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s pick to fill Sen. Jim DeMint’s seat, will be the South’s first black senator since Reconstruction.
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South Carolina Governor: I Won’t Appoint A “Placeholder” For Senate
“I rejected the option of a ‘placeholder.’”
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Conservatives Tout Black Congressman As Replacement For Jim DeMint
“I’ve also heard him speak, and he is very eloquent,” conservative columnist Matt Lewis argues. A needed trait in making a “moral case for free markets.”
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Who’s Beating the GOP Establishment? on nypost.com ›
I am a policy girl, Haley, 38, says demurely. But she is a savvy politician who in 2004 won a state legislature seat by defeating the longest-serving incumbent.
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Haley, Scott win SC runoff for GOP nominations on news.yahoo.com ›
In a clear sign of the South’s racial progress, Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, to run for governor in South Carolina and easily nominated Tim Scott, in line to become the former Confederate state’s first black GOP congressman in more than a century.
