REPRESENTATIVE TIM SCOTT APPOINTED TO THE U.S. SENATE BY SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY............

Republican first term Congressman Tim Scott, a re-elected November 6th, to the House of Representatives and acclaimed Tea Party member was appointed by Governor Nikki Haley, to be South Carolina's new United States Senator, as the successor to Senator Jim DeMint, who resigned to head up the Heritage Foundation conservative think tank in Washington   Senator-designate Scott, will become the first Black U.S. Senator in South Carolina history; and the only Black Republican Senator since the then twelve year Massachusetts U.S. Senator Edward Brooke retired in 1979............tdp