Posted on 06/24/2009 12:13:57 PM PDT by FromLori
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, apologized in a rambling news conference on Wednesday for having an extra-marital affair with a woman in Argentina, ending a mystery over his week-long disappearance that had infuriated lawmakers and seemed to put his rising political career in jeopardy.
Governor Sanford admitted he had been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since Thursday, not hiking on the Appalachian Trail as he told his staff. In revealing an affair that had gone on for about a year — and which he had disclosed to his wife, Jenny, five months ago, he said: “This was selfishness on my part.”
Mr. Sanford announced on Wednesday that he was resigning his position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
In an interview with The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday morning, Mr. Sanford said he had taken an unplanned trip to the South American country to recharge after a difficult legislative session in which he battled with lawmakers over accepting a portion of the federal stimulus funding.
He had considered hiking the trail, he said. “But I said ‘no’ I wanted to do something exotic,” Mr. Sanford told The State. “It’s a great city.”
Only at the news conference did he reveal why he traveled there.
The whispers about the missing governor started as early as Friday, when one lawmaker and outspoken rival of Mr. Sanford was quietly outraged that the governor had left the state without a plan for a transfer of power in the event of an emergency.
State Senator John M. Knotts, Jr., a Republican, said in a telephone interview that he got a tip from a caller — whom he would not identify —
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Sure. As you say, now.
Had it been a Repub it would have been the NYTMSNBCCNNABC chasing him into the john and not the Enquirer
Nah...just "strange" pu$$y...we don't want them going all Bawney Fwank on us, do we?
I guess Till Death Do Us Part only means something to conservatives.
It is reported that it was a woman with whom he is having an affair. I suspect that in fact it was a twelve year old boy. After all he is a politician, in America, in 2009 AD. On the other hand, being an American politician, he may have been standing nude on a beach in Argentina, facing the ocean with barbed wire rapped about his middle, an electrical cord slowly being tightened about his neck all while fondling his genitals. These people are sick.
How about showing the maturity this man didn’t?
This is literally true. The Juneau Dems have their own bathroom monitor, Rep. Beth Kerttula, who keeps tab on that.
Sorry about your disappointment re: Sanford. Tragic that he would do that to his family but I never thought much of him as a leader anyway.
“and was with a girlfriend in Argentina.”
Not exactly a weekend trip to Bermuda.
Yes, but he also inferred they are separated over his affair with this woman. He said they were working through it, or something like that. Evidently, he wasn't working too hard. I hope SC impeaches him. As conservative a state it is, it might happen. He built his career on the backs of others, and destroyed it, and many of them, along with his family. He's not fit to be a governor.
BF just likes boy prostitutes.
BF is a good set of initials for him.
This country is going to Hell faster than I thought possible.
I agree.
Not gonna fly. What elective office has John Edwards held since 2004? Did he come anywhere close to the Democrat Presidential nomination in 2008?
Please don’t give the opposition ammo with false equivalencies. Sanford is a POS. If he used SC state money at any time to finance his visits with his mistress, he deserves to be impeached.
If he had any shred of decency, he would have resigned long before this became public. The only ones I feel sorry for are his wife and four young sons.
You must have got that information from Doris Kearns Goodwin.
That's true, but that has only been the case in government since we started allowing women to vote (just a factual observation; make of it what you will).
Now that the socialism those women voted in have created a social welfare system that has destroyed the nuclear family, we have an entire generation of women (and effeminate men) who think government is supposed to be their husband or their daddy, and vote accordingly.
We were already heading that way before, but now we have Obambo driving he train pull and BF taking up the caboose.
The New Argentine Firecracker!
(Obscure Wilbur Mills reference, not understood by persons under 50 years of age.)
Thanks for laugh, we needed it!
**Even though it is not SUPPOSED to be funny**
Another idiot gives the dems an excuse to sing “culture of corruption” all over again.
But Wilbur was a drunk ... I don’t think Governor SAnford is a drunk, nor bathing in fountains.
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