(Columbia) Oct. 27, 2004 - Little Inez Moore never figured she'd ever be a politician while she was growing up in rural Georgia, "I thought I wanted to be a teacher," just like her own first grade teacher, her mother, "My life was really great."

She was active while in school, "I always played softball growing up. I was in girls field and track and was a cheerleader." She was homecoming queen, "You had to work to hard to become homecoming queen. Lot of campaigning."

She did teach the first grade for a year after college, before moving to South Carolina to work first for Head Start, then for the state legislature.

It was about that time she met her future husband, steel executive Samuel Tenenbaum, "We met in 1976 as volunteers on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign."

He was struck when he first saw her, "Cute little lady, there," but he says the two started out as friends, "It wasn't like someone hit you over the dead and bingo, we just knew each other very well and we were the ones for each other."

They married in 1984. Inez was 33 and finishing up her first year of law school. Their marriage is strong twenty years later, despite a few minor issues, "Samuel's version of laundry is to put it in the washer, put it in the dryer and then stack it on top of the dryer. He never folds anything." He has a different take, "That's not true. I think when it comes out of the dryer, you fold it. That's the kind of thing. She's doesn't like the way I fold it. I fold it this way and she wants to folded this way. So it's just those domestic squabbles."

The couple has suffered far worse. The Tenenbaums have always wanted children and Inez says they tried for years, "We had several pregnancies that I lost and that was a very sad day too. I got into my 40's and realized it was not going to happen and to deal with that issue, we both decided we'd work for other people's children."

These days, her schedule is hectic. Samuel now takes care of their Lexington County home, which could also be called a mini-zoo with four dogs and four cats, "Basically, since she's been running, I'm the house husband."

There isn't much time to relax and Sam says, "I think 'Cold Mountain' was the last one we saw together. That's been a while. It's been a while."

She commented on her ever present red clothing, "I thought, this makes me feel so good and energized. The next day I thought maybe if I wear red everyday. It will be a good luck color for me."

Thursday night, News 10 gets personal with Jim Demint and his wife, who in order for him to meet, he had to ask a friend for help, "When we first met, I actually asked a friend to ask her to go steady with me because I was too shy to ask her myself."
  
WIS visits the Demint home in Greenville to uncover the man inside the candidate.

By Heather Brown
Posted 10:22pm by BrettWitt