Nikki Haley

Born Nimrata Randhawa, Nikki Haley, is an elected official and businesswoman from South Carolina. Haley represents Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives.  Haley is the Republican nominee in the South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2010 and has been endorsed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford, and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Her parents, Dr. Ajit and Raj Randhawa, are Sikh immigrants from Amritsar, India. She has two brothers, Mitti and Charan, and a sister, Simran.  After joining her mother's business, Exotica International, an upscale clothing firm in 1994, the family business grew to a multi-million dollar company.

Adopting her husband's surname and religion did not spare her racist attacks.  On June 3, 2010, on the internet political talk show Pub Politics, Sen. Jake Knotts, a South Carolina lawmaker and supporter of Haley opponent Andre Bauer, repeatedly referred to Haley as a "raghead" saying "We've already got a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion." The Republican state legislator later apologized for the slur, saying the remarks about President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley were meant as a joke. Sad.

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