The South Carolina blogger and former Sanford spokesman whose claim to have had an affair with gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley is roiling the state's politics was on her campaign's payroll in 2008.

State ethics filings available online indicate that Haley's campaign for State Senate paid Will Folks's company, Viewpolitik, a bit more than $1,100 in consulting fees for the months of January and February of that year, along with a reimbursement of $173.50.

Folks has for years been a booster of Haley, though she suggested in a statement today that he had fabricated the claim to damage her politically. South Carolina Republicans said he's paid by a number of Republican candidates, though often listed as a subcontractor because he is a controversial figure.