The mystery of the sudden disappearance of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been solved. Despite the governor’s aides’ insistence that he was hiking along the Appalachian trial, Sanford finally arrived home on Wednesday, telling a South Carolina newspaper that he had considered hiking but instead, jumped on a plane to Argentina, because he wanted to visit an “exotic” location. Apparently that was just part of the truth as the exotic location was more like a woman’s body.
At a news conference in Columbia, S.C., Gov. Mark Sanford has now admitted that he had an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina, as he attempted to explain his mysterious disappearance from the state last week. He said he had developed a relationship with her in Argentina during the past year.
Gov. Sanford really began acting strangely leaving his office on Thursday, saying goodbye to his staff, driving away in a sport-utility vehicle that is usually driven by his bodyguard and turned off his cell phone. Gov. Sanford just left town, without telling his staff, family, security detail or the lieutenant governor, who demanded on Monday to speak to Sanford and be told of his whereabouts, setting off the search for the “missing” governor.
Gov. Sanford, known for his extreme right-wing conservatism, had managed to anger just about everyone in his financially strapped state, by stubbornly refusing to accept millions of dollars of federal stimulus money to help the unemployed and fund education, at a time when unemployment rates climbed in the double digits to 10.4 percent, and his state’s schools are crumbling from neglect, disrepair and years of under funding.
Sanford just lost a court battle with his own state legislature to block the federal stimulus funds. Sanford said in lieu of this new controversy he will resign from his position as head of the Republican Governors Association. He has a wife and four sons, which he says he has really hurt with the news of this affair. I think he also pretty much threw away his anticipated run for president in 2012.
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