A 'lesson learned' admitted by South Carolina Governor (in training) Nikki Haley is news only because she was caught.


SUMMERVILLE -- Gov. Nikki Haley said she learned a lesson from criticism over the cost to the taxpayers stemming from her trip the Paris Air Show last summer.

The S.C. Department of Commerce spent about $158,000 on Haley's economic development mission to Europe in June, a trip that included five-star accommodations and a party at the Paris Ritz.


And the comments you read below show just how much she's not capable of learning.


The Post and Courier first reported these expenses, and when Haley appeared before the Kiwanis Club here Thursday, an audience member asked her about it.

"That was a working trip. It was very productive. If I need to go again, I will go again," Haley said.

"What I will tell you is in the future I will question Commerce on who else is going and how much they are spending," she added. "That was my lesson learned from that."


That's right. Our governor flies blindly. Does she really expect us all to buy that nonsense. I mean, do you really believe she doesn't have the slightest idea of who travels with her?

If the trip was so productive, then show us.


"There is a method to the madness," she added. "I am selling the state the only way I know how."


Yup. Selling us out.