“You can’t preach and try to legislate ‘Family Values’ when you: take nude hot tub dips with teenagers (and pay them hush money)…
“Utah lawmaker [Kevin Garn] quits over hot-tub revelation”
“…cheat on your wife with a secret lover and lie about it to the world…
See all entries for Mark Sanford
There’s not much you don’t already know in NPR’s look back at Mark Sanford’s “Appalachian Trail” to political suicide, but we here at ConBab feel obligated to pay “tribute” at least one more time to a man who provided us with so much Schadenfreude-y entertainment over 2009, on the eve of his departure from office in 2011. (more…)
See all entries for Mark Sanford
Continuing to milk her victimhood for all its worth (don’t get us wrong — we approve) — no doubt due to her book, slated for publication in May, 2010 — wronged wife of South Carolina governor and laughingstock Mark Sanford did an interview (scheduled to air Wednesday night) in which she told Barbara Walters “she wouldn’t have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman,” even if he’d asked her to.
Details: ABC News.
See all entries for Mark Sanford
“I’m dead politically. I’m not running for another office. I just want to make the most of the 16 months that are remaining in trying to honor where I started in this thing, which is, how do you do some things that hopefully make people’s lives just a little bit better in South Carolina?”
Well, not running for office again is a good start.
More at WVOC.
See all entries for Mark Sanford
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) is being criticized in media reports for using state airplanes for campaign events and personal activities such as a dental appointment, hair cut, and his son’s soccer game.
More at Politics Daily.
State Senator David Thomas [R-Greenville County] says Governor Mark Sanford broke state law by the type of airline ticket he used on two international flights while conducting state business.
More at WLTX.
There’s a new, permanent page on ConBab that tells you everything you need to know (at least, as of August 5, 2009) to get up to speed on the C Street “Family” / Fellowship Foundation:
See also:
• John Ensign
• Chip Pickering
• Mark Sanford
Against gay adoption? Check.
Invokes God and morality whenever it suits him? Check.
Cheats on his wife, humiliates the children he claims to love, makes a mockery of his supposed religious beliefs? Check.
— TPM, June 25, 2009
Yes, indeed, we’ll be posting a main entry in the much-loved, traditional (heh!) “Claims to fame / Moral apex” format after the dust begins to settle, but for now, news is coming in so fast and furious, let’s just get to get to the headlines for Marshall Clement “Mark” Sanford, Jr., Republican Governor of South Carolina since 2003 — and probably ex-Governor, 2009.
The Reader’s Digest Condensed Version: He disappeared for five days, and after a media frenzy, admitted he was shacking up with a woman in Argentina (who, of course, wasn’t his wife).
And that’s only the beginning of the story.
Repost This Article