S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford apparently can’t even get on a plane to leave the country for two weeks without babbling on and on about redemption, forgiveness and healing – all themes he’s relying on to help him weather the fallout from his admitted affair with Argentine lover, Maria Belen Chapur.
Charlotte TV reporter Steve Crump caught up with Sanford at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, where he was departing for a two-week European vacation with his family – news of which was broken exclusively by FITS earlier this week.
And get this … the governor was perfectly willing to talk.
We know. Shocking …
“The whole process of redemption and forgiveness, grace and closure is slow,” Sanford told Crump. “It’s a process of healing, but that’s something we have to deal with as a family.”
Family, by the way, apparently includes any member of the media still willing to listen to him.
Seriously, Steve Crump. You’re enabling unhealthy behavior here.
By anonymous July 23, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Sanfraud did at least get his haircut for Jenny.
However, he has lost his tan.
Poor baby. He looks like a lost school boy that is lost in the shopping mall or can’t find his way to school or the bathroom. The guy is freakin’ clueless.
Is this guy really governor, tell me it isn’t so.
By 1+1=3 July 23, 2009 at 1:27 pm
“This time carved out for Jenny and the boys is awfully important in a family situation to put the genie back in the bottle.”
Can he please put his genie away once and for all?
By chassuz July 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm
What’s with the “carve out” thing? He said it 4 times in that interview.
By Anonymous July 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Sanford could have survived this… his inept handling of the fallout is what disqualifies him from futher office…
Anyway Sanford, you aught to cross off using any metaphores from your talk that you used in your love letters… especially mixed ones like full tank of love in the emotional bank account…
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' July 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm
One last session? Is that a promise?
By watching marshall July 23, 2009 at 3:32 pm
What a fat reporter. But he has all the patented, “cock the head to side,” etc moves. Even the ever popular “shaved head in an attempt to distract attention from my several sweaty chins.”
and Marshall has a satellite phone? Woo hoo – free calls to South America.
what a doofus
By skippy July 23, 2009 at 3:41 pm
he said it was important for “the boys” – the boys being his testicles
By Longshot July 23, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I sure hope the reporter in Charlotte emailed the papers in London to have a crowd waiting for him when they touch down in Heathrow and every where he goes. The paparazzi could have a field day with this.
By James the Foot Soldier July 23, 2009 at 4:53 pm
yawn – is there some side-bet between Fitsnews and The State to see how many permutations of Sanford is now doing (fill in the blank) to save his (fill in the blank: job/marriage/boys)??
By anonymous July 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Senate subcommittee to investigate Sanford
http://www.postandcourier.com/blogs/daily_briefing/2009/jul/23/Sen_Thomas/
By Anon July 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm
The story you linked says he’s only traveling with two of his sons. I wonder which ones.
Local Charleston gossip says that the oldest son will not speak to his father or have anything to do with him. (though I can’t imagine how anybody who knows that would spread it around)
Does anybody know if the boys will continue at their Columbia School or enroll in Charleston schools this fall?
By Huhhh July 23, 2009 at 6:48 pm
carving something about 4 times?!?!
Was his speech always this bizarre (fixating on one word and using it ad nauseum) or is he on meds or under the influence of C Street?
By ethel krabitz July 23, 2009 at 7:03 pm
One Floew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Part 2
Starring Mark Sandford!!
By ethel krabitz July 23, 2009 at 7:05 pm
ooppss Flew
By madcock July 23, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Wow, what Jenny Sanford will put up with just to live in the Governor’s Mansion another two years!
But, is it really worth teaching those four boys that men can treat their marriage vows like a throw away paper plate at a picnic and get away with it? Apparently to her it is.
By observer July 24, 2009 at 2:36 am
“…put the genie back in the bottle.”
Sanford said this twice in succession in the interview. For him to use the same phrase he used in torrid and widely publicized email exchanges with his piece on the side speaks volumes about where is head (“head”) is at. He is dropping crumbs so he can hedge his bets with his Argentinean Tail.
I can’t recall when a public figure displayed a more weak psyche than this dude has. He certainly has Willy Clinton beat in that regard. Given that he is in this unstable emotional state as an adult, I have to believe Sanford was a victim of abuse as a child. In any case, Sanford is going down the tubes and, unfortunately, taking SC with him.
By ethel krabitz July 24, 2009 at 7:54 am
i think she is only doing it for her sons, so they don’t have to live with the legacy of their DoucheDad’s resignation in shame. she’s a smart cookie, could buy and sell the “mansion” with her own money, just think her motivation is much deeper than that.
By SC Moderate July 24, 2009 at 11:11 am
From the video it appears their oldest son was not on the trip? If so, I thought this was one of the reasons he gave a few days ago for going on the trip…Because his son was about to go off to school?
If the oldest son refused to go with his dad- It seems Sanford could have offered to stay home, so that his son could go? I think “Jenny and the boys” would have probably had a better trip on their own.
By scooter July 24, 2009 at 7:37 pm
At least you got this one right. The Fool On The Hill (Sanford) is a disgrace and way off his rocker. This man needs to resign, and take his family way away from SC. It will take years to undo what he has done. I swear, this man is nuts, and needs intensive therapy in a hospital that has bars on the windows. (i.e. mental health unit in a prison)
By anonumos July 25, 2009 at 4:43 am
Mr. Sanford,
Sir, please tell us again why you are in Europe all of a sudden? …uh uh uh well, I figure that if I stay out of the country long enough then I’ll just forget about South Carolina …uh uh uh …you know, it will just be be erased from my mind …uh uh uh….wait, let me finish….
Sir, are you telling us that you are on vacation so that you can just forget about South Carolina and please answer the question? …uh uh uh well, actually I’m hoping that everyone will just forget that I’m governor of South Carolina …uh uh uh you know, that it’ll just slip their mind uh uh uh ….
Sir, did you know that Senator Thomas is investigating you for misuse of funds and wants you to provide information on nearly 80 occasions since last year that you dismissed your security detail? uh uh uh well, Mr. Thomas is just crazy ’cause I paid all that money back, you know, for that trip to Argentina …uh uh uh …
Sir, what about the other eighty times that you dismissed your SLED security detail and please answer the question? uh uh uh, well, I was getting a hamburger, yep that’s it, a hamburger …uh uh uh …wait, let me finish ….
Sir, you want us to believe that everytime you went on one of your trips, you were just eating a hamburger? uh uh uh, well, did you hear what SLED Director Reggie Lloyd said? ….uh uh uh, Reggie said I was getting a hamburger …uh uh uh and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it uh uh uh ….
Sir, where do you normally go when you get a hankering for a hamburger and how would SLED know about these hamburger runs if they are never with you? uh uh uh …Sir? Please answer the question? …uh uh uh well, I never really thought about that before …uh uh uh …listen guys, I’m in Europe right now, and I don’t need to be bothered with all this nonsense …uh uh uh …
Sir, what are you going to do when you return to earth, I mean to South Carolina? uh uh uh, well, I’m planning my next hamburger run uh uh uh, I mean my next trip to an undisclosed location uh uh uh…
Sir, has SLED developed this secret code “hamburger run”, which is really code for the governor needs a little private time at an “undisclosed location”? uh uh uh …how did you know? uh uh uh listen, with the time change and all in Europe, it’s getting late …call me next month when I’m in country …uh uh uh wait, let me finish…
Sir? Sir? are you still there? Dang it! we lost our cell connection again…
By liz shepherd July 25, 2009 at 9:36 am
the whole point is to say he went to LONDON>
and that he went a day before he told the people of this state that he was leaving the next day for EUROPE.
When people I know go to London, they don’t say they are going to Europe. They may say London and Europe but I wasn’t supposed to hear London.
( London AIG office)
By liz shepherd July 25, 2009 at 9:39 am
Ok ya’ll ” GENIE BACK IN A BOTTLE” means US TREASURY FUNDS BACK TO THE FED AND TREASURY ASAP>
BUSTED*********** by yours truly.
By The Babylonian Ho July 25, 2009 at 10:57 am
THE LUV GOV AND THE SOLICITIOUS SOLICITOR: A TALE OF TWO TAILS.
I’D TAKE THE 5TH IF I WAS BARNEY, NOW WE KNOW HOW REPUBLICANS ROLL, ALL OF THEM. THEY ROLL IN THE SACKS OF OTHER WOMEN. YUMMY.
Hey Sic, how come you haven’t mentioned this; your so unfair. ;)
http://www.wolfereports.com/?p=3003
“I’ll just resign, whether I’m found not guilty, guilty — whatever. There’s no reason to drag my office through it.” He also said, “I was gonna run again, but now I’m not,” and “It’s over; I’m never going to be solicitor.”
In the stories coming out since his arrest, there was no mention by Giese or his attorney that he would leave office or decide not to run again. The most salacious aspect of the case was floating around before, and now there’s a little more detail as to who had been the unnamed woman in the car when the solicitor was pulled over.
According to Dickinson’s statement, she let Giese drive the 1998 blue Lincoln sedan she drove to the restaurant because she was unfamiliar with that section of downtown and Giese had offered to drive her to his car, then let her follow him onto I-26 so she could get home, Ruemelin said.
uh huh, uh huh.
THE BABYLONIAN WHORE
By anonymous July 25, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Ex-C-Streeter: ‘They’re all horny f***ers’
A former resident of the house on C Street linked to numerous adulterous politicians, including disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., says residents who were having affairs teamed up to confront lone residents who were not having affairs and urge them to cheat on their spouses “for the good of their constituents.”
…”what they really wanted was a guarantee that nobody would go talking to the media without having his own skeleton in the closet, so to speak.”
… a former resident, who was a member of Congress from 1997 to earlier this decade said he was confronted by Sanford and Pickering once in July 2000 about “having a partner away from home to help unwind after a long legislative week.”
“Pickering said he’d noticed how bedraggled I was and asked if I wasn’t tired from going home every weekend to be with my wife,”…”And I said yes, I was tired, but that I also loved being with my wife.
“So then Sanford talked about how much better he worked after he’d seen his other woman. He stressed that he hadn’t stopped loving his wife but that he’d found someone who wasn’t always talking about the kids or the next campaign or women’s work.”
The former resident said Sanford and Pickering even came prepared with an extensive “C Street Collection,” a computerized list of women organized and indexed by several factors, including interests but mostly focused on an exhaustive set of physical and sexual criteria. Pickering said many C Streeters had found they could be much more dedicated to their constituents if they could “get away for a while” with a woman with hand-picked “physical attributes and sexual preferences to make sure the connection would last.”
“They always called it a connection, the other woman, things like that. Never said mistress. Never affair. Never cheating. Just these very low-key, low-responsibility words. The women they were cheating with probably would have complained about that, but they were getting paid pretty well in jewelry and apartment suites and such, so they figured it was worth the result.
…”The funniest part was having Sanford and Pickering almost reminiscing over the women they’d tried out back in the days before they put together this cross-referenced index of women. Sanford said he’d gone through two, sometimes three a week trying to find one who was just right for him. He was really a big fan of the tanner women who didn’t speak much, just lay there and enjoyed it — or at least didn’t tell him if they weren’t enjoying it.
…”But still,he couldn’t even get a good referral on those silent kind of women because he was the rare breed of politician who doesn’t like to hear how big and powerful a man he is. He’ll tell a woman how ravenous she looks, as we know now, but he doesn’t want to think about his job when he’s cheating on his wife. That’s why that trip to Argentina didn’t surprise me.
“At one point (during the July 2000 meeting),” the former congressman continued, “(Sanford) had to excuse himself to go grab a bite to eat. That was a pretty hot day, so it was no big surprise when he came back sweating and with his hair kind of messed up.
“And man was that list thorough. I mean, if you wanted a tall woman kind of on the chubby side, brown hair, smaller breasts for her frame and size, who had a gap between her front teeth and liked disco, their next question was if you preferred doggy style, missionary or oral.
“Not that I pursued things to that extent. They were just really energetic about finding me the right mistress. Pickering had just this incredibly detailed recollection of so many of these women, like he’d come to all their data personally. And I was just sitting there sort of in shock, and as the hours wore on, I got to really wondering just how deep their bench was, so to speak. Man was that a long meeting.
FULL STORY:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/25/757581/-Ex-C-Streeter:-Theyre-all-horny-f***ers
By shiya July 25, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Anonymous,
That post was a satire. please dont post it, even though I can well believe Sanford did this kind of thing.
By anonymous July 26, 2009 at 9:58 am
WARNING: THIS IS NOT A SATIRE
Sanford a man with 2 faces
South Carolinians – including Sanford’s wife, Jenny – are coming to grips with the reality that they don’t really know the man they twice elected governor.
Sanford has at least two faces, according to his own public statements and actions, as well as former staff members and political contemporaries.
One face – carefully cultivated and presented to the public – shows him to be a principled family man, given to deep thinking and Bible quoting, stingy with the public’s money and full of disdain for the trappings and allure of elected office.
Another face – successfully shielded from the public – shows Sanford as a man with vast and abiding political ambition, willing to prick politicians who disagree with him, willing to lie, boldly, to the public and to his wife.
In 2000, Sanford wrote a book “The Trust Committed to Me” where he articulated his fidelity to what he called the “citizen legislator” style of public service.
Citizen legislators, drawing on the timeless example of George Washington, limited their time in office, remained true to their principles and refrained from being taken in by the seduction of power.
Sanford is pictured on the cover holding the hand of one of his sons as he walks on a beach.
The picture reinforces the image Sanford conveyed in the book: He is an ordinary man, committed to family and committed, too, to honorable, brief public service that would never take him far from a core set of principles.
What Sanford offered in that book has been contradicted by his own words and actions -
“It’s kind of like the Wizard of Oz,” …”Once you pull back the curtain, there’s a frightened character there. You set yourself up as one thing, and then you turn out to be something that’s 180 degrees different.
Sanford criticized Bill Clinton as an example of career politicians who “seem to lack a sense of purpose or a set of values beyond the goal of holding office.”
Sanford repeated wrote about his own frugality, yet he scornfully noted in his book “The Trust Committed to Me” the use of a private jet to bring then-U.S. senators Hollings and Thurmond from Washington to Charleston for an event. “It bothered me that the taxpayers were the ones footing the bill” Sanford wrote. …”I found it hard to believe that my time, or theirs, could now be worth that much. Certainly, it’s the kind of treatment most incumbents could never afford if they toiled in the real world.”
Since November 2005, SC taxpayers have paid for more than $37,600 for first-class and business-class trips overseas. That includes a $12,215 plane ticket to China. And it includes an $862 stay at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, Sanford said state employees should double up at cheap hotels when they traveled to save money.
Sanfraud already has logged more miles in his second term than any other governor.
FULL STORY:
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/996571.html