“Luv Gov” Phone Logs Could Reveal Clues

By fitsnews • on September 20, 2009

Thanks to The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper (a.k.a. La Socialista), we know all about S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s steamy emails to his Argentine lover, Maria Belen Chapur (tan lines, anyone?) …

But did the governor also have a little 1-900-LAT’N-LOV action going on?

We may know sooner rather than later as scrutiny of Sanford’s taxpayer-funded and campaign expenses continues to intensify.

Expenses like phone records, for example.

According to data obtained by FITS from various campaign finance reports, Gov. Sanford’s dormant campaign organization “rang up” over $5,000 in cell phone charges in the eighteen months leading up to his shocking admission of infidelity earlier this summer. That’s a lot of “chitter chatter” for a campaign organization whose last election took place nearly three years ago.

First, here’s a look at the phone charges …

COMPANY – DATE – AMOUNT

SUNCOM – 1/23/2008 – 185.10
SUNCOM – 2/25/2008 – 177.40
AT&T - 2/26/2008 – 101.07
SUNCOM – 3/25/2008 – 197.03
AT&T - 3/25/2008 – 101.12
SUNCOM – 4/8/2008 – 319.05
AT&T - 4/8/2008 – 101.69
SUNCOM – 5/8/2008 – 277.52
AT&T - 5/23/2008 – 107.57
SUNCOM – 6/17/2008 – 236.32
AT&T - 6/17/2008 – 107.45
SUNCOM – 7/9/2008 – 240.52
AT&T - 7/22/2008 – 108.03
SUNCOM – 8/13/2008 – 253.46
SUNCOM – 9/15/2008 – 250.95
T MOBILE – 12/1/2008 – 105.66
T MOBILE – 12/27/2008 – 239.86
T MOBILE – 1/25/2009 – 242.16
T MOBILE – 2/12/2009 – 245.20
T MOBILE – 3/11/2009 – 308.27
VERIZON WIRELESS – 4/7/2009 – 411.79
T MOBILE – 4/23/2009 – 441.24
VERIZON WIRELESS – 5/1/2009 – 223.81
VERIZON WIRELESS – 6/16/2009 – 215.34

Add it up and the tab is $5,197.61.

So … did Sanford make any phone calls to Chapur using his campaign phone? Or did he make any calls to Chapur using his personal phone and then bill those charges back to his campaign organization?

Also, what about text messages?

In addition to Sanford’s taxpayer-funded phone records, expect his campaign phone records (i.e. logs of specific calls and messages placed and received) to be sought by investigators as well.

Comments

By Bruce on September 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Columbia’s interior design crowd has been hissing like tea kettles at the prospect of a Bauer governorship. Now, the lieutenant-guvnah may or may not be gay, but honey he does likes pretty things. Have you seen his darling apartment on Senate Street? Yes, Senate Street no less.

So who was spotted rustling the rhododendron outside the governor’s mansion the other evening? Was some light-in-the-loafers-laddie measuring drapes with an iPod camera? Was he armed with paint charts and old copies of Architectural Digest? Well, let’s just say he was driving the most adorable little Smart Car you ever did see!

The Bauer Hour of Decorating Power is about to begin.

And if it is curtains for Mark Sanford, we’re sure Andre’s window treatments of magenta portieres festooned with ball fringe will be capable of completely darkening the parlor at a moments notice. Midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? The latest X-tube feature? Say, does anyone have a donkey?

And the parties! Oh, the parties. Can we talk? How many guests invited to the sure to be fabulous Halloween fancy dress gala will be bearded? Glenn? Lindsay? My, my, where is Truman Capote or Mike Rogers when you need them?

And here’s a costume idea for the L-G: (save your sequins everybody) descend the staircase as Liberace! Now, girls, there’s a candelabra in a closet somewhere; drag it in here.

Boys will be boys, But boys rarely will be governors. Hold on to your pasties girls, this is gonna be fun.

By alaindelon on September 20th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

Hats off to you…Text messages like these brought down Former Mayor
of Detroit amd send him to jail.He was texting his mistress too.The Detroit Free Press won a Pulitzer for the coverage.Can yours be very far behind?

By Wildman on September 20th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

The text messages is what is going to get the LUV GUV!!!!!

By Interloper on September 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

The Luv Guv would have left a lot fewer tracks if he was ever willing to pay his own bills instead of passing them off as state or campaign fund expenses.

By Todd on September 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

Bruce: One can’t get any more gay than the group that did the GM interior design for the Hodges a few years ago. Problem is they did a great job. Now any single change has to be approved by the GM Foundation Committee. Yessir, that’s a group that up for change for the sake of change. Your little story is funny, however.