Earlier this month, we highlighted all of Ted Budd’s friends that he was celebrating with on National Friendship Day. Now, we’re starting a new series – Budd’s Buddies – to give voters a look into who Ted Budd is spending his time with. Today, it’s yet another closed door fundraiser with spineless, DC insider Nikki Haley.

Here’s a couple reasons why they make such great pals: 

• Congressman Budd knows a thing or two about political expediency and flip flopping to benefit himself, so it’s only fitting that he’s hosting a private fundraiser with “one of the biggest GOP flip-floppers” herself Nikki Haley. 
• Haley opposed Medicaid expansion in South Carolina, providing health care to hundreds of thousands of people and bringing health care jobs to the state. In Washington, Budd voted repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which includes the option for states to close the coverage gap through Medicaid expansion.
• They both have a mutual friend in corporations. Budd, who has spent his time in Congress rewriting the rules to help himself and his corporate backers, finds himself in good company with Haley who put corporations ahead of middle class South Carolinians during her time as Governor. 
• As South Carolina Governor, Haley supported upholding a ban on gay marriage. In July, Budd voted against bipartisan legislation that would codify marriage equality, despite record levels of support among Americans for same-sex marriage.

“Between their out-for-themselves mentality and out of step, extreme positions that put corporate interests ahead of the people they represent, they have so much in common that it’s no wonder Nikki Haley is one of Budd’s buddies,” said NCDP spokesperson Kate Frauenfelder. 

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