South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford disappeared for 6 days, not responding to any texts or calls from law-enforcement officials. Jenny, his wife, assured the AP that he was taking time away from their four boys, ironically it was over Father’s day weekend. The Governor’s office then refused “to discuss specifics.”
When he returned home he informed a South Carolina reporter he was just vacationing in Buenos Aires, where he also later admitted he had been having an affair. At the time Sanford was threatening, much to the chagrin of his own party, to reject up to 25 percent (or $700 million) of South Carolina's share of federal stimulus funds unless the legislature set aside a matching sum of state money to pay down its debt—at a time when the state had the second-highest unemployment rate in the country.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/203480
This article was fascinating to read. It made me want to keep reading because I was interested as to where he had been and what his excuse was. I think that it was obviously a selfish move on his part but it’s good that he at least admitted to what he had really been doing.
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