Comments on: Keeping Him “In Country”

By: kbfenner

kbfenner — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:12:26 +0000

Make it stop!! I just got back from Chicago, which is thriving compared to here. It should be the other way around. We have by far the better people, the prettier state, much better weather–we just have to decide that we are not going to put up with business as usual any more. Chicago was famously corrupt until very recently, as was the state of Illinois even more recently. Chicago got its act together. Come one, South Carolina, let’s show them we aren’t a lunatic asylum!

By: Longshot

Longshot — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:29:26 +0000

Makes perfect. Jenny has professional watchdogs (press) seeing to his every move for 18 months. She gets full time security detail at her beckon call. If the kids get security (baby sitting) too this will only cost maybe three million for next 18 months.
As soon as he leaves office he is on the next plane to Maria in BA laughing all the way with his congressional retirement, his governors retirement, his big estate etc.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:09:27 +0000

A Trade Mission?

Sanfraud was on a “mission”, but it wasn’t a “trade mission”.

Sanfraud was on a Argentian Putang Mission.

Sir, did you successfully complete your Trade Mission in Argentina? uh uh uh …yes I did! …uh uh uh ….wait …let me finish…mission accomplished! …yes sir, putang mission accomplished …uh uh uh …wait let me finish…

By: 1st none surprised

1st none surprised — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:32:18 +0000

Wow, talk about your big government spending. Where I am locally, it’s the same way. Same families running things for years. Absolutely, SC is still operated as a feudal state. The Sanfords are here as “royalty” to cash in on what they can. Most people would have the decency to step down.

By: Another opinion

Another opinion — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:15:30 +0000

Not only are they not form South Carolina, neither are Davis(NJ) and Ryberg (WIS). They may be others. Makes you wonder what is going on? Out of staters telling us that we do not know what we are doing and what they recommend is better. Sounds like the days of carpetbaggers!

By: 1+1=3

1+1=3 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:57:42 +0000

Does anyone know where he is? Hasn’t been seen since the port meeting?

By: scooter

scooter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:09 +0000

I am not interested in being one of many inside the marriage of Mark and Jenny Sanford. They have said and done to much in the public arena and I am sick of them both. It is long known that Jenny is a take-no-prisoners woman. Lots of folks have heard and seen her at her “best”. No one wants to cross her. Both are invited to leave the state on the first Greyhound heading out of town. To them both: get lost!

By: shiya

shiya — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:18 +0000

contrary to what everyone thinks, i thinks its Jenny and the boys who are at the mercy of Sanford. He doesnt care a damm…he can fly off to Argentina. Jenny needs her boys to forgive Sanford and make him work for it. That is why she needs him to be present here. Sanford has already communicated loud and lear that Maria is his soulmate. There is no chance of getting his marriage back, and he knows it. He is just waiting out the 18months, and he has managed to get it on his terms. Not resign,not repent, keep his office and have Maria waiting for him.
what a pathetic low-life.

I just wish Jeny would let go of this guy. Once he moves to Argentina, the whole spaky thing may just fall off. what will he d then. he will be more of a pariah than John Edwards.

By: sic shillie

sic shillie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:28:27 +0000

neither jenny or mark are from south carolina. they couldnt care less about this state except for what they can get out of it for themselves. it’s quite obvious that they treat this state as their own personal feudal principality and the people’s will has about as much influence over their decisions as a serf’s influence over the lord or baron they are indentured to. mark’s ideological claims of “small government” are completely hollow and are simply a smokescreen for “privatization” aka selling off the valuable pieces of SC to whatever bidder benefits the sanfords and the people they are connected to via wall street/big money interests. fortunately, SC has pretty much been run like a feudal state since its inception as a slave colony, so the sanfords simply represent the status quo. mark’s scandal ripped the facade off for the people to see the reality for about 10 seconds, but its back to business as usual in the palmetto state. nothing to see here, people, move along.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:10:55 +0000

Cost for Sanford trips $70,000

Taxpayers have spent another $380,000 for governor to fly on state plane

Since taking office in 2003, Sanford has taken at least one major international trip a year, flying to China, Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Brazil and several other countries

In 2007, he touched down on two continents, attending the Paris Air Show that June and in China a few months later. On these long trips, Sanford often flew business class at a cost of several thousand dollars a ticket.

These costs are in addition to the more than $380,000 in expenses the governor’s office has tallied using the state’s plane to fly Sanford, his staff and family on hundreds of flights throughout South Carolina and other states.

After he was elected to Congress in 1994, he agonized about a 1995 trip to Chile, Brazil and Argentina. “I know politically it’s not the right thing ever to go on any trip,”

As a congressman, and later as governor, Sanford became a frequent flyer.

• A trip July 16-18, 2006, to the Farnborough Air Show outside London. The Commerce Department said Sanford also held a dinner with a business prospect. The governor’s tab for his airfare alone: $7,063.

• The Paris Air Show and Germany June 16-24, 2007, where the governor and aides held meetings with business and government officials. Sanford canceled meetings in Stockholm and returned early because of the Sofa Super Store fire. Sanford’s plane tickets cost $9,890.

• Poland and Germany in April, where Sanford and aides met with BMW executives and government officials. Sanford’s costs were $5,035. He also returned early from that trip, this time because of the wildfires in Myrtle Beach.

• The most publicized trip, however, has been the economic development mission Sanford took to Brazil and Argentina June 21-27 last year. Sanford’s air fare was $8,687, credit card receipts show. During the trip, Sanford secretly met Maria Belen Chapur, his mistress. Sanford recently paid back about $3,000, which he said was the Argentine leg’s cost.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jul/09/cost_sanford_trips88673/