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Jenny Sanford: Wouldn’t Have Stayed With Guv If He’d Asked

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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 with Barbara Walters, scheduled to air Wednesday night: (more…)

There is a God! “The Family” C Street House Stripped of Tax-Exempt Status

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S.C. House Repubs Ready to Circumvent Speaker & Tell Sanford to GO

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Vogue Profiles Wronged Wife Jenny Sanford

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Mark Sanford: “I Am Dead Politically”

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“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.

Your Tax Dollars At Work: Sanford Used Public Planes for Personal Use; Fellow Repub Says He Broke Law

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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.

Mark Sanford’s Wife Takes the Kids and Leaves

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August 7, 2009 (more…)

C Street / The Family / The Fellowship

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:

C Street / The Family / The Fellowship

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John Ensign
Chip Pickering
Mark Sanford

Mark Sanford, From the Top

Mark SanfordAgainst gay marriage? Check.

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.

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