COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will call for amicable political disagreement in her sixth State of the State address.
Haley’s address Wednesday to a joint Legislature will draw national scrutiny a week after her Republican response to President Barack Obama cast her as the GOP’s moderate voice and fueled speculation she could be on the presidential ticket.
Her speech follows a historic year for South Carolina, when a massacre at a historic black church resulted in the Confederate flag being removed from Statehouse grounds.
According to excerpts of her speech, Haley will ask legislators to follow the example of their colleague, the church’s slain pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney.
