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(Politico) — Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she found the recent video of an AFL-CIO leader smashing a piñata of her “creepy,” and the South Carolina governor described the incident as typical behavior of “union thugs.”
“It’s creepy. I still hurt every time I see it,” Haley said to Greta Van Susteren of Fox News. “This is not typical of South Carolinians. This is typical of union thugs.”
Haley was responding to a YouTube video that surfaced over the weekend, in which Donna Dewitt, the president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, takes a baseball bat to a piñata featuring the Republican governor’s face. With onlookers cheering her on with comments like, “Wait ‘til her face comes around, then whack her,” Dewitt repeatedly beats the piñata until it eventually falls down.
The governor told Van Susteren that the incident only made her more determined to be a “union buster.”
“All it does is it makes my heels taller, my heels sharper so that I can kick harder,” she said. “I’m not going to stop beating up on the unions. I’m not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. . . . I’m a lot tougher than that. I’m going to keep on kicking.”