Somebody needs to change the Kool-Aid Republicans drink! Vitter, Craig, Ensign, now Sanford.
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ABC is reporting today that:
Apologizing profusely to his staff, family and friends for disappearing unexpectedly, a teary-eyed South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said he had been “unfaithful” and admitted affair with another woman in Argentina.
“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford said at a press conference this afternoon, adding that his affair was with a “dear, dear friend from Argentina.
Photo:
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is joined by his wife, Jenny, after winning the Republican gubernatorial nomination, in this June 13, 2006 file photo, in Columbia, S.C. Jenny Sanford said Monday she did not know the location of her husband. Sanford’s staff declined to disclose where he was. (Mary Ann Chastain/AP Photo)
Sanford also offered his resignation from is position of chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
Sanford’s staff couldn’t even get the story of his week-long absence straight.
Early this week his staff told reporters that the governor was hiking on the Appalachian trail, but this morning the governor told The State newspaper upon his arrival at the Atlanta airport that he was in fact in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The governor, who has been known to eye the 2012 presidential nomination, said he has enjoyed hiking on the Appalachian trial since he was a high school student, “But I said ‘no’ I wanted to do something exotic.”
And he did.
A U.S. Embassy official in Argentina said the embassy had “absolutely no idea” that Sanford was in the country, adding that this comes “from out of left field, it would be extremely odd that a U.S. governor would not check in with the embassy.” But a Department of State spokesperson said if Sanford decided to travel as a private citizen, the department would not have to be informed.
Sanford told The State: “It was a long session and I needed a break.”
His wife, Jenny Sanford, told the Associated Press Monday that the governor was “writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids.”
But what ignited national curiosity was that Sanford’s security agents were unaware of his whereabouts and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer — who would be in charge in the governor’s absence — said he didn’t even know Sanford was going away.
This morning Sanford flew back to Atlanta rather than of Columbia, S.C., to avoid a media stampede.
He wanted to sneak back into town unnoticed.
Sanford has recently emerged as an outspoken opponent to President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan, becoming the only governor to reject the federal stimulus money.
He lost in court when South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled that the governor had to accept the money.
The South Carolina legislature last week overturned all 10 of Sanford’s vetoes on the stimulus.
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