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FOIA releases of a ton of emails to and from Governor Sanford of South Carolina’s office from various TV news types (most prominently MEET THE PRESS) offering all sorts of ‘we’ll act like we’re questioning you but we’ll make sure that you get all the softballs you want, and protect you from the nasties out [...]
Governor Sanford of South Carolina’s spokesman is resigning for a job in the private sector. Comments from folks who know him say that he’s a nice guy who probably is very tired from this ride on the circus. Unlike at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Arlington trashes the stuff left behind. As I’ve said before, I’m [...]
The short version seems to be that it’s unlikely without further explosions that Gov. Sanford of South Carolina will be forced to quit his job over the whole affair-affair, but it’s pretty certain that his political future is totally destroyed. This review from the South Carolina paper The State puts it in a nutshell, without [...]
I am singularly uninterested in the Jackson story. I’ve seen enough oddball celebrity circuses, and the really interesting and truly weird stuff will not come out for a while for most people. I expect more news circuses repeated endlessly on the news, and I will ignore them all. Finally, someone sems to be doing something [...]
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I can’t read the love letters from Governor Sanford to his girlfriend without this going though my head. Sorry. As one right-wing blog said today: Under different circumstances I think he could have survived this, but it’s a quirk of our politics that voters don’t mind cheating as much as they do inept cheating. Infidelity [...]
Gov Sanford of South Carolina admits that his mysterious disappearance over the last week was to go off to Argentina to see his mistress. Well, there’s always the Sanford / Ensign ticket for the GOP next time, with the motto: “Don’t do as I do, do as I say.” And yes, that is Gary Hart [...]