FITSNews – March 9, 2008 – “S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster is weighing an investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford’s involvement in a controversial Lowcountry development deal, sources tell FITSNews”.

“According to an e-mail obtained by FITSNews, Sanford is said to have accused Hilton Head Island developer David Staley of being a “womanizer.” Staley’s firm won the bid to develop the property”…

“FITSNews on the condition of anonymity claim they have uncovered a “smoking gun” against Sanford, who is on the record saying that he did not specifically instruct his Ports Authority Chairman to sell the property to any particular bidder”.

“These Senators point to an e-mail drafted for the signature of Ports Authority Chairman Bill Stern, an e-mail that was obtained by the Senate Finance Committee under the state’s Freedom of Information Act”.

“In the e-mail – which Stern apparently never sent to Sanford – the governor’s involvement on behalf of Chaffin/Light is specifically characterized as an instruction, not a recommendation”.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/03/09/mcmaster-contemplating-investigation-of-sanford/

I m disappointed he endorsed McCain at all .

Lawmaker shows newspaper a tape of state officers harassing county narcotics team

Months before the South Carolina Senate confirmed Jim Schweitzer in 2004 as the new director of the Department of Public Safety, Sen. Jake Knotts of Lexington said he showed him a videotape of Highway Patrol troopers harassing local narcotics agents on a stakeout because the troopers were upset the local officers were in their territory.

The troopers, in an unmarked SUV, parked near the local agents and then did what they could to discourage the agents from staying, Knotts said, including shining their lights on the highway, shouting and singing over their vehicle’s loudspeaker and turning on their blue lights. And when the agents finally pulled out onto the highway in pursuit of the car they were waiting on, the troopers blocked them, Knotts said.

http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS01/803060323/1004/NEWS01

Who is Mark Sanford? The only Sanford I’m familiar with is Fred Sanford, but he’s a fictional character.

A guy who twice voted against cutting taxes. A guy who voted to stifle free speech. A guy who kneecapped his own party’s majority with the power to select judges. A guy who tried to grant 20 million illegals blanket amnesty and whose minions (see Graham, Lindsey) called those opposing him “bigots.” A guy who is trying to push man-made global warming “solutions” on the American people. A guy who is doing everything he can to circumvent the very campaign spending laws he himself proposed. A guy who tells those within his own party to “F-off.” And a guy who has already shown in this primary cycle that he doesn’t have guts or courage to go after his opponents on the left (see Cunningham, Bill).

The Republican Party elites and insiders have given us a candidate who is unelectable in November. He will not beat – and cannot beat – either Obama or Clinton.

And perhaps Sanford – not wanting to tie himself to this coming train wreck – knows it.

You yourself have argued that his best course of action to secure himself on the ticket would be to have endorsed McCain before the primary.

And perhaps our governor had the courage to stand aside until his friend (who voted AGAINST the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, FOR the moronic McCain-Feingold anti-free speech bill, FOR the McCain-Kennedy illegal immigrant amnesty legislation, etc, etc) had virtually locked up the nomination.

Wow. Gov. Mark Sanford’s steadfast convictions make you slimy political hacks look small in comparison. And, for the record, this is coming from someone who didn’t even vote for Sanford in the last primary. His political courage has won my respect.