EXCLUSIVE: Move to impeach Sanford under way

The Washington Times ^ | 8-27-09 | Ralph Z. Hallow

[kingattax]

South Carolina Republican lawmakers are on the verge of calling a special legislative session that could impeach and remove embattled GOP Gov. Mark Sanford by the end of the year, The Washington Times has learned.

GOP lawmakers will use a regularly scheduled annual retreat this weekend to discuss the fate of the governor, whose extramarital affair with an Argentine woman sparked an international scandal earlier this summer. Mr. Sanford has rejected calls to step down voluntarily, included one issued Wednesday by his own Republican lieutenant governor.

House Republicans in the state will discuss how and when to initiate impeachment proceedings against Mr. Sanford, a senior state GOP lawmaker told The Washington Times. The Republican legislators will consider whether to call for a special impeachment session of the legislature before its scheduled date for reconvening in January 2010, Rep. Gary Simrill of Rock Hill told The Times on Thursday.

[Rome2000]

On what grounds should he be impeached?

Seems to me he didn't break any laws.

Good thing SC GOP have so little to do that they can spend time keeping this crap in the newspapers.

[missnry]

Simple: Just change parties to be a Democrat. He will be on the Democrat Wall of Fame with Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Barney Frank etc.

[FTJM]

This is the story that won’t die.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Exactly. This is a steaming load of crap. RINOs want to install the scumbag Andre Bauer.

[RushLake]

This is the type of stuff that will continue to marginalize the GOP. As someone smarter than me once noted, all politics is local. We have a similar situation in Michigan where the MIGOP absolutely and consistently refuses to attack people like senator Karl Lenin and work diligently for his defeat. You have a similar situation in SC with Lyndsey Grahmnesty. Two large turds that need to be flushed and the GOP is nowhere to be found. IMO, all the state parties should be focusing on the "farm team" back home with the golden opportunity presented by the most worthless president since fdR in hand.

Our former MIGOP chair, Saul Anuszis, is working on getting Harry Reid defeated in Nevada. He couldn't get anyone defeated in Michigan except for a couple of good conservative congressmen and now he's going after Hairless who will probably enjoy a comfortable reelection margin as a result.

[livius]

People in SC intensely dislike Bauer, who would be his replacement. Sanford may be a flake, but Bauer is a RINO disaster.

[Lynne]

I don’t think this has anything to do with Sanford’s actions per se. I think right now they’re looking to save the governorship in 2010.

[Theodore R.]

SAnford will become to the SC governorship what GWB became at the national level: Democrats return to misrule, as the clueless GOP sits there.

[sergeantdave]

“SAnford will become to the SC governorship what GWB became at the national level: Democrats return to misrule, as the clueless GOP sits there.”

That’s a myth based on knee-jerk emotionalism. Unless, of course, you have extensive research on South Carolina citizens and proof of their overwhelming love for obuma and the sinking rat party, and their intent to vote in a rat governor and rat legislature.

Care to share it with us?

[discomatic]

If I’m remembering correctly, he’s used state planes for personal business and remember that when he went AWOL he left no instructions or transfer of power which left the state paralyzed until he returned.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

In the last few weeks I occasionally and briefly check CNN and MSNBC. Every time I have checked Campbell Brown or Olbermann’s shows; they are talking about nothing but Sanford.

So I knew this was coming and this is all they will report on. This is all they partisan have.

[RoadTest]

Another Conservative bites the dust. It would be interesting to trace how the destroyers of our country did it.

[True Grit]

Damn bunch of scantimonius GOP idoits always manage to shoot themselves in the foot. A weak bunch of comprimisors who always fail to take a stand on major issues. I am nearly as sick of them as I am of those mangy dims.

[rlmorel]

Okay. Let me get this straight.

We have one politician in office who (according to the Wall Street Journal at THIS article on 8/28/2009

1.) Did not report income from a federal credit union account with a balance somewhere between $250,001 and maybe as high as $500,000, failed to pay $15,000 in taxes on vacant lots in New Jersey that he owns

2.) Didn't disclose the $1,001 to $15,000 in stock he owns in Yum Brands or his stake in PepsiCo, $15,001 to $50,000

3.) Is under investigation regarding his use of four rent-stabilized apartments at a swank New York location

4.) Illegally solicited donations with his official letterhead for a Public Service at Center named after him at City College of New York, which was itself built with a $1.9 million earmark and

5.) Failed to report $75,000 in income from a rental villa at the beachfront Punta Cana Yacht Club, in the Dominican Republic.

In summary, he failed to report income for tax purposes due to these "little errors" which bring this politician's net worth for 2007 to somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million, while his previous statement came in at $516,015 and $1.316 million, nearly DOUBLING his annual income.

THIS politician, instead of being disgraced, removed from office and in jail, IS INSTEAD THE HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE THAT OVERSEES TAXATION POLICY.

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Now, we have another politician in office who rejected the concept of accepting government bailout money for his state and had an extramaritial affair with a woman.

THIS politician has a movement underway to impeach him and remove him from office INITIATED BY HIS OWN PARTY.

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Okay Sports Fans, WHICH party does each politician belong to?

WE HAVE A WINNER!

"DING DING DING! What do we have for her, Johnny?"

[SueRae]

Wake me when the move to impeach Obama becomes news, hopefully sooner rather than later.....

[rlmorel]

**sob**

It was AWFUL!

The state was PARALYZED! Paralyzed, I tell you! It was awful! People were slavering, jumping from windows and running madly through the streets!

[madmominct]

This is so hypocritical. After all, “it’s only about sex.” Didn’t we hear that a zillion times with Clinton? The difference is, Sanford didn’t lie under oath, suborn perjury or harrass and intimidate witnesses. Oh, but he’s a Republican. Since Republicans actually have scruples, when they violate them they can be excoriated. Dems don’t have any to begin with, so they have nothing to be held accountable to, they can do anything.

[concerned about politics]

Another Conservative bites the dust. It would be interesting to trace how the destroyers of our country did it.

That's an easy one.

Saul Alinski-

” Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

The problem here is not that they make us live up to ours, but that we don't force them to live up to there's.
Is any democrat politician doing anything to help the environment other than talk and order other people around?
How many rich liberals in Washington have shared their own wealth with the democrat base?
Why do Washington politicians have privatized Social Security and we don't? Don't they believe their own rhetoric about sharing, fairness, and equality?

[RoadTest]

That’s an easy one.

Saul Alinski-

” Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

Thank you. That’s a good answer.

As for them living their rules? They don’t because they are hypocrites.

“Get thee behind me, Liberals!”