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Monday, June 22, 2009
News Gov. Sanford was lost but now he's found
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Last night, news broke that South Carolina's governor, Mark Sanford, was missing. I suggested that, wherever he was, he was probably pouting. (And still think that's likely.)
Here's the news from last night (there's an update below):
The lieutenant governor doesn't know, and neither does a state senator who's a close confidante. Even his wife is in the dark.Gov. Mark Sanford's unannounced absence from the state capitol perplexed some politicians Monday, and his staff wouldn't say where he was. His wife said she hadn't heard from him in several days — including Father's Day.
"He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids," Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press while vacationing with the couple's four sons at their Sullivans Island beach house. She said she wasn't concerned about her husband, the state's two-term Republican chief executive.
Sanford, who's also chairman of the Republican Governors Association, earned a reputation as the nation's most vocal anti-bailout governor by refusing $700 million in federal stimulus money for schools until he lost a court battle earlier this month.
His spokesman Joel Sawyer released a statement saying the governor was taking a break after losing the fight.
More from the Associated Press.
Update: He was lost, but now he's found. Where was he? Hiking the Blue Ridge Trail, of course. More from Politico.com.
No surprise: The Twittervse has a hashtag for this: #WheresSanford. If you read through some of last night's tweets, before the good governor popped back up on the radar, you'll find some funny theories about his whereabouts ... like this one, that suggests the vampire Eric, from HBO's "True Blood" was involved. Or, this one that has the governor hiding under a pile of stimulus money.
Update: From TalkingPointsMemo.com, a reader responds: "That's insanity. How on Earth does the head of his security detail knowingly let Sanford "go alone for days" without making a big stinking deal about it?"
But, don't worry. The gov has called in and said he'll be back at work tomorrow, after a week who-knows-where.
And he was worried about how the state would spend stimulus money, sounds like the citizens of his state need to worry about what they're spending on his salary.
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