S.C. Governor Mark Sanford issued the following statement Friday after his wife, S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford, announced that she was filing for divorce after twenty years of marriage …
While it is not the course I would have hoped for, or would choose, I [...]
SANFORD ASKS FOR PRIVACY, PRAYERS IN DEALING WITH FORMAL SPLIT FROM WIFE
Only hours after his wife said she was filing for divorce, Gov. Mark Sanford is speaking out.
The embattled governor asked for privacy and prayers in dealing with his formal [...]
We didn’t believe all the talk during the summer that the Sanfords could reconcile after Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with an Argentinean woman. What it did, and what was expected by us, was that it lit the fuse on a long burn that would end [...]
S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford issued the following statement Friday morning regarding her twenty-year marriage to S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford …
As so many of us know, the dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process. It is also a very personal and private one. [...]
JENNY SANFORD TO LEAVE CHEATING HUSBAND
After a tumultuous year of trying to reconcile marital difficulties with her cheating husband, South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford has filed for divorce.
Mrs. Sanford made the announcement on Friday that she would be leaving Gov. Mark Sanford, who made a [...]
S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford is filing for divorce from her husband of twenty years, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.
The news comes less than a week after FITS exclusively reported that Mrs. Sanford had served her philandering husband with legal papers – which the second-term [...]
That didn’t take long …
Less than twenty-four hours after a S.C. House subcommittee overwhelmingly assigned an “unfavorable report” to an impeachment resolution against him, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford went out looking for the national spotlight he lost six months ago.
His first foray?
A press release urging [...]
A day after a legislative panel recommended that he not be impeached, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is reportedly girding for battle against his antagonists in the GOP-controlled S.C. General Assembly.
So much for the “walk humbly” approach …
The website SC Hotline is reporting Thursday [...]
Gov. Mark Sanford hasn’t learned a damn thing from 2006 and 2008, if a recent post by political operative and friend of Sanford, Jeffrey Sewell, is to be believed. In the past two cycles, Sanford has tried with poor success to enlist allies like [...]
The House ad-hoc subcommittee on impeachment did what was expected — voted down the resolution for the impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford. There was a thought that it would get some Democratic support, or another Republican beside chief sponsor Rep. Greg Delleney, but the [...]
GOVERNOR THANKS PANEL, VOWS TO ‘FINISH STRONG’
Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday expressed his appreciation for a South Carolina House judiciary subcommittee that voted against a bill to impeach him.
The ad hoc committee voted six-to-one against recommending passage of the [...]
6 OF 7 MEMBERS GIVE UNFAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION, VOTE TO CENSURE GOVERNOR
A South Carolina House judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday voted six to one against a bill to impeach disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford.
The seven-member panel agreed that Sanford abused his power as governor in scheduling a 2008 trip to [...]
Just 36 percent of voters approve of Gov. Mark Sanford according to a poll released today by Public Policy Polling, but a majority, 58 percent, of those polled do not think the embattled governor should be impeached. In addition, fewer favor Sanford's resignation, 45 percent, than think he should finish [...]
FIRST LADY WAS NEVER ASKED TO BE AT PRESS CONFERENCE
During the most infamous press conference in South Carolina history, when Gov. Mark Sanford revealed his extramarital affair with a woman from Argentina, the first lady was conspicuously absent.
Many other politicians — including Louisiana Sen. David Vitter and [...]
SUBCOMMITTEE SAYS GOVERNOR ‘ABUSED POWER’ IN SCHEDULING 2008 TRIP TO ARGENTINA, DROPS 4 MORE CHARGES
Mark Sanford abused his power as governor in scheduling a 2008 trip to Argentina, a South Carolina House judiciary subcommittee determined on Monday.
The seven-member panel [...]
A new report documenting the controversial “Argentine Leg” that S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford added to a 2008 trade mission to South America was released to members of the media Monday – a day before the trip is scheduled to become the focus of what is [...]
Estranged S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford has reportedly served legal papers on her unfaithful husband, Gov. Mark Sanford – papers which are said to include the specific terms of a financial settlement.
There’s just one problem – the governor is refusing to sign them, according to our [...]
Thursday, the ad-hoc impeachment committee went over the allegations provided by the State Ethics Commission. There was a lot of back-and-forth between the legislators and Gov. Mark Sanford’s high-priced attorneys. Then it came. The big move. The committee dismissed 28 of the charges.
Yep, there [...]
I Don't Try to Find Things to Complain About to the SCGOP - They Just Keeping Giving Me Reasons ....
You want to know why I like Mark Sanford? Because I'm totally every bit as cheap as he is. If you want [...]
HOLIDAY SEASON OFFERS NO SIGN OF UNITY AT GOVERNOR’S MANSION
It’s been a painful, six-month whirlwind for South Carolina’s first family.
In June, Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared for five days and, when he returned, he admitted to an ongoing affair with a woman from Argentina. And ever since, both [...]
GOVERNOR WILL NOT IMPLEMENT UNFUNDED, FEDERALLY-MANDATED PROGRAM
Gov. Mark Sanford renewed his fight against the unfunded, federally-mandated REAL ID program in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week.
Sanford said on Friday that he penned the letter to update the federal government on South Carolina’s progress [...]
The State Ethics Commission – which is appointed by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford and stocked with his political campaign donors – failed to report “numerous violations” identified by its own investigators during their recent review of the governor’s administration.
At least that’s what sources familiar with the [...]
IMPEACHMENT PANEL DISMISSES ALL BUT 8 COMPLAINTS AGAINST GOVERNOR
A South Carolina House judiciary panel dismissed most of the ethics charges against Gov. Mark Sanford, all pertaining to allegations that the governor illegally used taxpayer funds to upgrade to business class flights and that he improperly reimbursed himself [...]
Members of a House Judiciary Committee panel on Thursday voted to remove 28 of 37 State Ethics Commission charges from its debate over whether the governor should be [...]
All but nine of the thirty-seven ethics violations against S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford have been dismissed by a legislative panel investigating whether or not the second-term Republican governor broke the law relating to travel expenses and campaign reimbursements.
It was a victory for [...]
A House panel weighing removing Gov. Mark Sanford from office concluded that the bulk of 37 ethics charges against the governor are not impeachable offenses.
In a brief meeting Thursday, the committee voted unanimously to remove 18 counts of Sanford using business class tickets and 10 counts of Sanford improperly using [...]
S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s effort to launch some “not-so-friendly-fire” in the direction of his ideological allies during the impeachment battle is now drawing some fire of its own.
Reported exclusively by FITS two weeks ago, Sanford is actively courting Republican primary opponents against the four GOP [...]
