Posted on 07/06/2009 4:22:16 PM PDT by pissant
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – After spending the holiday weekend with his family in Florida, Mark Sanford is apparently intent on fighting off calls for his resignation and staying in office, according to one South Carolina Republican who spoke with the governor on Monday.
Richard Yow, a member of the South Carolina Republican Party executive committee from Chesterfield County, received a phone call from Sanford on Monday afternoon. Yow said he spoke to the embattled governor for ten minutes, during which Sanford asked Yow for his forgiveness.
Yow said he told Sanford he could forgive him, but he told the governor that he should resign for the sake of the state and his family. Sanford, he said, rejected the idea.
"He said resigning would be the easy way out," Yow told CNN.
"He told me just like he told everybody else, that he didn't think resigning was the thing was to do," Yow said. "He did a lot of listening, and saying a lot of, 'I know you how you feel.' He hated that he has caused so much trouble for his family and friends and the state. I told him, it's not just trouble, it's a tragedy."
Sanford said he had a productive weekend with his family in Florida, according to Yow, and that he was working to earn their forgiveness.
"He said he was trying and he was working hard at it," Yow said. "He said they had a good time together."
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Will someone please tell this nutter his political career is over, I mean you are making a spectacle out of yourself, you blithering, greasy haired idiot. Just go away and get your own reality show, or become some TBN preacher where your kind of hypocrisy and moral degeneracy is welcomed.
Is “rejects” in the title noun or a verb?
Lame Duck
Sad that this guy was said by some a rising star in the Republican party...ughhh. he’s fessed up lately to being a serial adulterer..aka whoremonger. Man you see the chick he threw his career away over, Uni-Brau
I noticed that this morning ABC This Morning had a nice puff piece on the SC governors wife. I geuss thats how you get the media to love you if you’re a republican. Be a jilted woman. Can you imagine if Todd Palin had had an affair. Would ABC give Sarah Palin any sympathy. Hardly. They would be trashing Sarah Palin for not being a good wife and not being there for her family. Ya just gotta love the media.
Forget about Palin, everyone...Sanford in 2012!
/heavy sarc
Did you need another reason to post your distain for the Repub party. Like I said, he’s no different that DC - he fits in. Is Barney more to your liking? You’re a bit too obvious to be playing your game on a conservative site.
Relax Francis, and yes the current Republican party sucks and that is the opinion of 90% on this site so YOU get with the program. Since you brought up the “Barney” reference, are we repressing something..hmmmm
Well, we dodged a bullet with that one. He was being pushed as a possible presidential candidate, but he’s totally without honor. If he won’t resign, then the people of SC need to fire him.
You’re a bit too obvious. Not everyone here is a conservative - their posts out them - just like yours. So taking cover under ‘conservative’ opinions - you can’t because of your mindset. Barney - pretending to be for something he’s not - just like you. Dead fish follow the flow.
When Sarah Palin feels the need to resign and Mark Sanford doesn’t, something is very, very screwed up in the political world.
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