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STATE SENATOR, ONE OF SANFORD’S CLOSEST FRIENDS, ASKED GOVERNOR TO CONSIDER RESIGNING
One of Gov. Mark Sanford’s closest friends and political allies is speaking out on the scandal that has rocked the Palmetto State for the last two weeks.
State Sen. Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) issued a statement Friday, a day after the State Law Enforcement Division cleared Sanford of any wrongdoing after his five day disappearance to Argentina and revelation of an affair with a woman from there.
In the statement, Davis said he personally asked the governor to consider resigning and that, if he remained in office, would have no room for error.
“Over the past two weeks, South Carolinians have been disappointed, angry and embarrassed by the actions of Sanford,” Davis said. “I share these emotions. We cannot control the unfortunate circumstances that got us to this place, but we can and must control how we now move past them.”
Davis, who noted he had been friend with the Sanfords for 30 years and “God willing, we will remain friends for the next 30 years,” said he was concerned for the state’s first family.
“This is why as a friend, I asked Sanford on several occasions to consider resigning for the sake of his marriage and his family,” he said.
Davis said Sanford assured him that remaining in office would not prevent him from resolving his marital problems and that he is “not going to second-guess them in that personal matter.”
After the results of Thursday’s investigation, and after meeting with SLED Chief Reggie Lloyd and Attorney General Henry McMaster, Davis said “it is time for me and other public officials to get back to work on the serious challenges facing our state” unless any new facts are uncovered.
“That said, and as Sanford knows, he has no margin for further error in this particular matter,” added Davis. “South Carolina simply cannot afford any additional embarrassment.”
too bad, South Carolina is going to get some serious bad PR really soon.
Mark already knows, maybe Tom doesn’t.
Let it surprise them like it has surprised me over the past four years.
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Lovenator Mark Sanford …a three-day trip in 2008 to Argentina to visit his lover.
Sanford has reimbursed taxpayers about $3,300 for the trip — one of seven times he said he rendezvoused with Maria Belen Chapur.
It was an unusual place to talk trade.
Argentina defaulted on its foreign debts in 2002 and tilted politically left. The U.S. Department of Commerce had not conducted a trade mission in the country between 2002 and 2008.
The governor briefly had joined some delegation members for a dove-hunting trip in Cordoba, Argentina, but cut the hunt short.
…he also admitted meeting Chapur in the evenings the first two days and most of the third day.
Sanford spent and the state paid for about $1,100 for two rooms — one room each for he and Graham for two nights.
Included in Sanford’s Buenos Aires Hilton bill was a mini-bar tab of about $40 and $200 in fees for a 6½-hour late departure fee because his return flight to the United States did not leave until 8:30 p.m.
He also was flown by helicopter to La Plata to meet with Buenos Aires Province Gov. Daniel Scioli.
Sanford had scheduled a free day on his final day in Buenos Aires — with only a visit to a local newspaper and a self-guided tour of the city…
However, those two items were missing from a U.S. Embassy hour-by-hour itinerary obtained by McClatchy.
Graham said he took the self-guided tour, but Sanford did not show up. Graham also said he did not think the governor visited the newspaper.
Sanford’s one-way air fare home was $4,000 for a business-class seat, records show. Graham’s air fare was $870 for coach.
Sanford did not reimburse any money for that flight.
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/851496.html
Shut Up, Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford continues to read aloud from his Hello Kitty diary about his love affair with an Argentine woman.
FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY
VIDEO
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=232258&title=shut-up,-mark-sanford
XOXOXO
The Bauer people (the above anonymous posters) ought to take the weekend off. They seem a little wound up.
He lied about it. He tried to cover it up. Then, he admitted it — parts of it, anyway. And then he offered up sensational details, some of which contradicted sensational details he had offered before.
“About as bad as you can do,”
• Offered an unequivocal apology. Sanford did, but to his lover before his wife. Jarringly, he then continued to refer to his lover as his “soul mate.”
Sanford acknowledged he had met with his mistress more often than he had previously disclosed, called her his soul mate, said he will try to fall in love again with his wife and said he “crossed the lines” with other women — but not “the ultimate line.”
Mark Sanford said: ….uh uh uh …wait … wait …let me finish …uh uh uh …
XOXOXOXO
Governor Mark Sanford will be in Charleston Monday morning for a briefing on port security.
The meeting – which includes visits by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Senator Lindsey Graham – is closed to the public.
Sanford won’t attend a media availability after the 11;30am scheduled meeting concerning Project Seahawk.
Project Seahawk is a federally funded security task force aimed at protecting the Port against acts of terrorism.
Project “SeaHawk” An Intermodal Transportation and Port Security Pilot Project:Charleston Harbor Operations Center & Project SeaHawk Task Force – Charleston, SC
http://proceedings.ndia.org/7490/Beeson.pdf
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