Nikki Haley came to Easley one day back in 2016 to sign a bill that had been championed by then-Sen. Larry Martin.

There in city council chambers, surrounded by a standing-room crowd of local dignitaries, Haley gave Pickens County’s longtime senator a big pat on the back for relentlessly pushing passage of an ethics reform bill, which she said would help clean out

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