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The Blair Witch Job Application:

Gov. Nikki Haley said today that she wasn't concerned about paperwork on file at the Lexington Medical Center that claims she earned $125,000 a year in her previous job -- more than four times as much as she actually did.

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Governor Nikki Haley

Haley, who was then a state House member, worked for the medical center before leaving that job to run for governor. On Tuesday, The State obtained an Aug. 5, 2008, job application that said she earned $125,000 a year. Her previous job with her family's clothing business paid her $22,000 in 2007.

"I'm not concerned about it. It was a piece of paper that I didn't fill out, that I didn't sign -- that had no information from me on it at all," Haley said after her town hall meeting in Charleston. "I never gave that ($125,000) number."

Mark Shelley, director of marketing and public relations at the medical center, said today the center did not change Haley's application or fill out the application on her behalf.