Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

Governor Haley, you certainly have my congratulations. So far as I know, you are the first woman elected in her own right as Governor of a Southern State.

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Norton congratulates Governor Haley on her historic election as a Southern state governor.

06/16/2011

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