Thread by @irishrygirl

Let’s talk about Nikki Haley’s record when she was governor of South Carolina… @NikkiHaley

You championed to bring Volvo plant to the state, had a reported price tag of $70 million of state "surplus" money and a remaining $53 million through economic development bonds. By one estimate, the deal could cost taxpayer $87 million in interest payments alone.

You only gave BMW, Boeing, Bridgestone and Michelin — totalled $800 million, or about $100,000 for each of the 8,000 jobs created. All 4 companies donated over $600,000 to your campaign.

A 2015 report by the Alliance for a Just Society found that 57 percent of new jobs in South Carolina paid less than $15 an hour — one of the highest rates in the nation and well above the national average of 48 percent.

Your cheap labor approach to job creation leaves many South Carolinians stuck in poverty or near poverty. The state ranks 16th in the country for highest percent of people living in poverty (15 percent) and fifth in the nation for child poverty (27 percent).

Because of how you ran South Carolina, drug deaths, preventable hospitalizations and a host of other measures, United Health Foundation found South Carolina ranked as the ninth-most unhealthy state.

Center for American Progress report in 2014 concluded that more than 57,000 South Carolinians would not need to rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program if the minimum wage in the state was lifted to $10.10 an hour.