** FILE ** Ken Wingate, Republican candidate for governor, fields questions from the media during a news conference about Charter School Tuesday, April 30, 2002, in Greenville, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford named Columbia attorney Ken Wingate, 47, to serve as interim state treasurer Wednesday, June 20, 2007, after state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel was accused of purchasing cocaine and giving it to others. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)