Gov. Haley: Stay out of Myrtle Beach elections; it’s our concern, not yours

Gov. Haley,

My wife and I have watched, with much interest, your extensive and apparently very expensive slander advertisements over the past few weeks.

The interesting part is that these advertisements are not about anyone running against you but instead are against members of your own party, people who are already serving our state in either the House or Senate.

It makes us wonder why you would have your staff spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make highly questionable, sometimes half-true statements about the people who currently represent us.

We understand that you have pledged to campaign against lawmakers who have not supported your agenda to the letter, but you seem to have forgotten one very important fact: we, the actual voters, do not send representatives to Columbia to support your agenda.

We send representatives to Columbia to support our agenda. They work for us, not you.

We vote them into office and replace them when we see fit.

Spend your money, my dear, to spread slander and half-truths if you wish while you remember that you also work for us.

My family has always supported you in the past and now you have disappointed us, perhaps beyond redemption.

We do not care who you support; it is not your business to be involved in our business.

It was a great day in South Carolina - until the governor became mean and ugly.

The writer lives in Conway.

This story was originally published June 10, 2016 at 9:06 AM with the headline "Gov. Haley: Stay out of Myrtle Beach elections; it’s our concern, not yours."