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Sanford's Mistress Identified as Professional, Passionate and Beautiful Brunette
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Posted on 06/25/2009 8:58:56 AM PDT by traumer

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's mistress is a 43-year-old employee of an international agriculture company who speaks several languages and lives in an upscale apartment building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, local media there are reporting.

Though details are sparse, Terra Noticias reported Thursday that the woman's name is Maria Belen Shapur and she works for the international agribusiness firm Bunge y Born.

The newspaper, along with Buenos Aires Continental Radio, reported that she lives next to the Buenos Aires Zoo in a 14-story building. A witness described her as a beautiful brunette with big eyes who plays tennis on a nearby lawn and runs every morning in her neighborhood.

The witness told the radio station that Sanford arrived at the complex, alone, with a small sports bag last week and asked to go inside the building.

Sanford admitted Wednesday to having an affair over the last year and covering up a secret trip to visit his mistress last week. The admission rocked the South Carolina political scene and has also captured the attention of the Buenos Aires media, as the governor provided few details about his lover.

Terra Noticias reported that Belen speaks English, Portuguese and Chinese, and that the company she supposedly works for is massive, with 25,000 employees in more than 30 countries, including 1,000 in Argentina, according to a profile on the Bunge Limited Web site.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: gopimplosion; maria; sanford; shapur
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To: tioga
How come we don't have pictures? And I don't mean all these South American backsides. I want to see this woman who's caused us so much trouble.

Expose the slut. That's what Sanford was really crying about--why he wanted to tell a long story of his luvvv-- He's crying over the whore, not what he's done to his family, his state and his party.

Make him cry again.

141 posted on 06/25/2009 1:11:23 PM PDT by Mamzelle (BRING CAMERA EQUIP TO TEA PARTIES--TAPE THE DISRUPTORS)
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To: Maelstorm

I can’t find the poster that said it was a govt email account, but they were wrong. Looks like criminal activity (federal crime).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor_e_mails_1

In an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” State reporter John O’Connor said the newspaper was sent the messages from the governor’s personal e-mail account by an anonymous person.


142 posted on 06/25/2009 1:13:38 PM PDT by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Yea, he’s a gem. Says he and his wife are trying to work things out as he just returns from a week’s tryst with his mistress.


143 posted on 06/25/2009 1:18:55 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: tioga; Mamzelle

kind of fits the description of her from the bar thread, though.


144 posted on 06/25/2009 1:19:54 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Liberty Valance
If that IS her, I can't condone it, but I can almost understand it.

She doesn't look 43 or 46 though. I'd guess late 20's.

145 posted on 06/25/2009 1:21:25 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: traumer

How do they know she is “passionate?”


146 posted on 06/25/2009 1:22:45 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: xsmommy; Mamzelle

there IS a pic floating around here on FR reported to be her....let me see if I can find that one.


147 posted on 06/25/2009 1:26:38 PM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

isn’t it post 97 on this thread?


148 posted on 06/25/2009 1:27:06 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

no, there is another of a 40 something woman.


149 posted on 06/25/2009 1:28:53 PM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy; Mamzelle
here she is
150 posted on 06/25/2009 1:31:01 PM PDT by tioga
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The other picture besides the beauty I saw fits the description more, and actually looks a little bit like Sanford's wife.

Maria?

151 posted on 06/25/2009 1:31:33 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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To: tioga

i would assume that to travel all that way, to sacrifice a longstanding marriage and 4 young sons, that it would be a hot piece. i can’t imagine how it could ever be worth it.


152 posted on 06/25/2009 1:32:15 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: traumer

Best thing for these guys is for the wife to divorce him and let him have his “soul mate”, “true love heart” person. That’s what my sister did after 30 years of marriage. Just let him have the young thing with skirts up to her ying yang. What a site today, some ten years later. She is as wide as the doorway, nags him 24/7, and he has to work full time at age 70 because she spends money they don’t have. Their debt load is unbelievable.

Meanwhile my sister remarried a nice widow guy and lives quietly and happily with the grown children nearby.

Just let the guys have their sexy beauty and time will tell the story.

And I say the same thing for women who do this too. Fact is, this kind of adultry is unnecessary today. In the 1940’s maybe, but not today. Get your divorce first if this is the course you want, then do whatever you want. Show respect for God, your wife, husband, children, family and your country.


153 posted on 06/25/2009 1:35:07 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: xsmommy

I would think he needed the emotional aspect as she is no looker....then I read the emails.........


154 posted on 06/25/2009 1:37:50 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Darren McCarty
If it's her - I'd say NOT GUILTY
155 posted on 06/25/2009 1:40:23 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Star Traveler

I don’t question whether it was ‘doing us a favor’..I question the methods of exposing it to a muckracker newspaper over 6 months ago with emails, etc. in a way that was going to come out and hurt his wife and kids.

It could have been done behind the scenes (if it was ‘our’ side). Someone could have told Sanford that his secret was known and to get out of the way of running for POTUS. As far as his stint as Gov. of SC, it is up to the voters of that state...not his political enemies.

It is obvious that someone was holding this info on Sanford for an opportune time and in that case my bets would be on Rahm and his thugs. It is Obama that is fumbling everywhere and this has taken alot of the heat off of Obama. Like I said..if it ends up being someone on our side that wants to run for POTUS that leaked this info...they will not get my vote...PERIOD!


156 posted on 06/25/2009 1:45:00 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: tioga

interesting. not all that, IMO.


157 posted on 06/25/2009 1:49:04 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: LADY J

Well Lady J. It started out as friends with a common interest in politics and discussions and such. It is a passion my wife and I do not share though she has come around some since then but what was more important to this relationship is the things my wife and I were not sharing which was common respect for each other. All I remember is feeling very alone and that was even though our sex life was very good. That is why I get incredulous when people wish to overly simplify how this kind of thing occurs. I think it makes them feel safer or something. If its just sex then it is some how easier to understand. Well it isn’t about just about sex. Some men do work like that but a lot don’t.

What went into the mix was a tight financial situation and a stressful job and I felt my wife was being unreasonable and was not respectful of my hard work. It did not help that she came from a broken family and often times seemed to associate me with the men who hurt her in her life even though I was never like them. She also wasn’t supportive of many of my endeavors and always seemed to offer criticism quicker than anything.

I had my own faults. Sometimes I saw my mother in her and wasn’t always sympathetic to her challenges when we moved from our home state when I got a better job and away from our families. Also I think the fact that I did not go out or have a life outside of my family other than work did not help but I thought that was how things had to be. Also I did not generally allow myself close female friends since marriage though I’d always had good friendships before I cut all those off abruptly. I think that was a mistake and combined with everything made it easier to find love outside of my marriage. I actually came to hate my wife. I told her every day I loved her but had a growing resentment of her. It wasn’t entirely fair but such things never are.

When the one you are married to does not offer anything that you can connect to but sex and the children you have together it gets very lonely but even with that I never went looking for someone else to fall in love with. I knew that it was wrong. It happened through a series of events that started out harmless but I must be honest it felt like a drink of cold water after a march through a desert when we finally confessed our love for each other. It felt so good to feel respected, feel loved, and feel a real sense of companionship and allegiance from a woman who was mature, intelligent and strong yet simultaneously just comfortable and not angry about being a woman or angry at men. A woman that would defend her man rather than eagerly look to tear him down and highlight his every weakness real or imagined.

It was a blessing in some ways and I am lucky the other woman had a moral foundation because it kept us both from doing something we would have regretted. She always encouraged me to do what was right even though we both went beyond what was right emotionally. I do regret it now because when such things happen something has to be let go. I lost a woman that I loved dearly and deeply but I gained something that is priceless and that is my family and the integrity of my marriage. One thing that is certain is that it is a choice that has to be made and it will be made for you or by you.

I asked my wife for a divorce and wanted one. I really didn’t think she loved me at all but she proved me wrong and I found a way to love her again to love all those things that made me love her in the first place. We have had two more boys since then and I am really happy and we have a more honest relationship and really like and love each other. A lot of it was acceptance of each other. Her accepting that just because I had friends who were women or otherwise didn’t mean I was going to cheat or leave her and me being more patient with her as she grew in her role as a wife, mother, and a woman and learned to accept me for who I am which is often stubborn, bullheaded, and sometimes just a pain in the ass but I’m also a good father and a good husband and she most certainly is a good mother and wife. We are better people having made it through that together...


158 posted on 06/25/2009 1:50:05 PM PDT by Maelstorm (When you can no longer say no to the government's confisation of your wealth then you are not free.)
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To: penelopesire

You said — It is obvious that someone was holding this info on Sanford for an opportune time and in that case my bets would be on Rahm and his thugs.

Well, my bet is on Romney and/or his cohorts, seeing that they were anxiously trashing Palin, before the election even happened... :-)

I think the Democrats already know that Romney and his followers will readily do the work of the liberals, for them, and save the liberals from doing all the work.


159 posted on 06/25/2009 1:51:37 PM PDT by Star Traveler (I personally oppose shooting abortionists, but I do not believe in imposing my morality on others.)
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To: traumer

Doesn’t matter what she is like or looks like. He is just as big a scum bag, whether she is a beauty with brains or some dumb as a box of rocks, ugly as sin woman.


160 posted on 06/25/2009 1:52:14 PM PDT by calex59
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