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

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

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

BUSTED*********** by yours truly.

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)

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…

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.