Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) acknowledged the impact of his recent scandals today in an interview with a local radio station. "I am dead politically," he told WVOC in Columbia. "I am not running for another office."
Earlier this summer, Sanford admitted to an affair with an Argentinian woman after he went missing for several days. More recently, he has come under fire after an AP investigation found that the governor has used state aircraft multiple times for personal and family trips.
Sanford also commented on last week's news that wife Jenny and their four children moved out of the governor's mansion. "That part's hard," he said. "That's probably the most bitter part of it. But there are consequences for any mess-up that we have in life, and that's one of them." The decision for Jenny and the four Sanford boys to move to Charleston apparently had to do with both the beginning of the school year and also because "they deserve to be out of the fishbowl they've been in."
"I fell in love with one woman I should not have fallen in love with," he continued. "We all get that. Everybody's been trying to move on."


glogrrl
August 12, 2009 6:56 PM
What took you so long? Just resign, already!
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PlanMeister
August 12, 2009 7:05 PM
"We all get that. Everybody's been trying to move on."
That's it? That is all there is?? No, "I understand the hurt and embarrassment I caused"? No "sorry about all the mess"?
Nothing to see here folks, I'm trying to move on here.
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tchamp77
August 12, 2009 7:39 PM
""I fell in love with one woman I should not have fallen in love with," he continued. "We all get that. Everybody's been trying to move on."
Buzzcocks anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unxlh2ucxCg&feature=fvw
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bpalmer51
August 12, 2009 8:41 PM
Politcally Sanford made a major mistake when he teamed up with New yorker Howard Rich to unseat members of his own party. I do not have the numbers, I know a couple lost their elections, but he did not seem to realize that those he did not defeat would come back to haunt him. Notably State Senator from Lexington Jake Knots, who help break the affair.
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