SC Gov (Sanford ) Cancels State Meetings for Trip With Wife

[sabra]

Source: ABC News/AP

3 weeks after announcing Argentine affair, SC Gov. Sanford taking 'personal' trip with wife
The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has cleared his schedule this week to take a personal trip with his wife, three weeks after announcing his extramarital affair with an Argentine woman, his office announced Wednesday.

Sanford is taking off the rest of the week for a trip out of state with first lady Jenny Sanford, spokesman Joel Sawyer said.

"This trip is personal in nature, and we're not going to offer any further comment," said Sawyer, who said the couple will be gone through this coming weekend. "The governor remains committed to repairing the damage he's done to his marriage, and so it shouldn't be any surprise that spending personal time with his wife is a part of that process."

The couple's four sons will not be with them on the trip, Sawyer said.

Sanford disappeared over Father's Day weekend, without his staff or security detail knowing his whereabouts. Upon his return June 24, he confessed he had been in Argentina with his mistress and he had misled his staff to think he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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[hatrack]

1. Will he have his cell phone on this time?

Just asking . . . . :evilgrin:

[glowing]

2. He's going to get re-programed. He's cracking.. Needs some

"family whipping"

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Hope they're working on the divorce settlement.

[NJmaverick]

4. I read the headline and wondered who's wife

[tomm2thumbs]

12. hahahaha - good point

[Happyhippychick]

5. So now it's newsworthy when repubes go on trips with their own wives?

[Demit]

8. I think it's a strategy, deliberately making it a soap opera, to distract from Sanford's

appalling behavior as an elected official. They're trying to guide the response from the electorate to be toward his personal behavior in his marriage. It's very cynical. And I think the wife is fully part of it. She might have the money, but she likes the power it buys too, and doesn't want to lose that. A pox on all of them.

[gratuitous]

6. Didn't he just have a week off?

Well, I guess South Carolina's in such great shape that it hardly needs a governor to run things.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Ok..YOU are his wife. What would you be saying on this trip?

[demigoddess]

23. Loreena Bobbit , Loreena Bobbit , and I would spend a lot of time

admiring the knives.

[goclark]

25. Let the door hit you Sandford and Sin

:puke:

[Captain Hilts]

9. He's STILL governor???!!?!?

[kayell]

17. Two words - Andre Bauer nt

[tomm2thumbs]

10. uh oh, this third love (after the Argentina lady and his governorship) takes control now

I hope she don't pull a Bobbit on 'em

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Is anyone actually running the state anymore?

:shrug:

[MaineDem]

13. The National Governors' Conference is this weekend

Any chance they're going to that? It's in Biloxi, MS.

Now THAT would make for an interesting conference.

[Captain Hilts]

20. Well, Sanford will have LOTS to talk about! nt

[ellie]

14. Hasn't this asshole

gone on enough vacations?

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Helpful travel tip, Mark - Pack light - no need for Viagra this time.

You won't be getting any action anytime soon.

[undeterred]

16. Are they going to hike the Appalachian trail?

Or maybe go to South America for a threesome?

[damntexdem]

18. Is he going to make her hike that damn trail?

Or will they go cavort in Buenos Aires?

[truthisfreedom]

19. Reminds me of bush's excessive vacations.

Why is it that rethugs need so many damned vacations?

[DebbieCDC]

21. Does this mean he's fallen back in love with her?

[Gin]

22. I want the details....nothing about his life is "personal" since he insisted on

blabbing all the gory details of his marriage and affairs.......come on gov...spill the beans...whats going on with you and Jenny?

[Sabriel]

24. He's not going to cry the whole time, is he?

'Cause that just puts a damper on a vacation.

I wish him flat tires, delayed flights, and rainy weather.

[gleaner]

26. This guy never stops....

he's like a very strange Energizer Bunny. He keeps going and going and going. I wonder how he is approaching this. Do you suppose he's thinking that if he can't get the eclairs for dessert he might as well take the tapioca?

I hope not for his wife's sake. I would advise her to take some very dull pinking shears for any Magic Moments they may share. That would solve a lot of her problems. Divorce would solve all of them, but I doubt she will ever think of that.