Mark Sanford Got an Exemption to Take His Fiancée on a Junket to Israel
Mark Sanford Got an Exemption to Take His Fiancée on a Junket to Israel
Typically, only family members are allowed on privately funded trips, but the South Carolinian got permission to take his Argentine partner along.
Shane Goldmacher Sep 9 2013, 4:24 PM ET
Rep. Mark Sanford, whose extramarital dalliance abroad while governor of South Carolina led to scandal, took his mistress-turned-fiancée, María Belén Chapur, to Israel in August, on a trip paid for by American Israel Education Foundation, congressional records show.
Such privately funded trips are typically limited to relatives, but Sanford, who won election to the House in a special election earlier in the year, asked for and received a special exemption to take Belén Chapur along.
Sanford gave a two-word answer on the congressional travel form when asked why he wanted to participate in the Israel trip. "Educational purposes," he wrote.
The American Israel Education Foundation spent more than $18,558 to fly Sanford and his fiancée to and from Israel for the weeklong journey. They flew business class, records show, with round-trip flights that cost more than $5,000 apiece. They were part of a delegation of roughly two dozen Republicans on the trip, which included House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy.
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"tits caught in a wringer" be the perfect postscript to this unseemly saga? 
