S.C. Governor Mark Sanford Admits Extramarital Affair With Argentinian Woman
S.C. Governor Mark Sanford Admits Extramarital Affair With Argentinian Woman after going AWOL for seven days. Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday, June 23rd, 2009, that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Wiping away big alligator tears, he apologized to his wife and four sons and said he will resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” he said in a bombshell news conference in which the 49 year old governor ruminated aloud with remarkable frankness on God’s law, moral absolutes and following one’s heart. He stated he spent the last five days “crying in Argentina.” Did that leave only two days to fornicate?
Who does he think he is, Jimmy Swaggart? Putting on the big blubbering act after he has done just exactly what he wanted to do? In my book just another man who could not control his urges and didn’t care who he hurt in the process. Not his family, his friends, his constitutes and those of South Carolina who he swore to serve and be a leader for.
Sanford, who in recent months had been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2012, he did however…totally ignored questions about whether he would step down as governor.
At least one state lawmaker has all ready called for his resignation. As a congressman, Sanford voted in favor of three of four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, citing the need for “moral legitimacy.” I ask you, is this man a hypocrite?
The affair is now over, Sanford stated, describing the woman who lives in Argentina as a “dear, dear friend” that he’s known for about eight years and been romantically involved with for about a year. He said he’s seen her three times since the affair began, and his wife found out about it five months ago.
“What I did was wrong. Period,” he stated
His family did not attend the news conference, and his wife Jenny Sanford stated that “she asked the governor to leave and stop speaking to her two weeks ago.” The governor says, ‘he wants to reconcile and his wife’s statement said ‘her husband has earned a chance to resurrect their marriage.’
“This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage,” she stated.
Sanford denied telling his staff to cover up his affair, but acknowledged that he told them he thought he would be hiking on the Appalachian Trail and never corrected that impression after sneaking around and leaving for South America.
“I let them down by creating a fiction with regard to where I was going,” Sanford stated. “I said that was the original possibility. Again, this is my fault in…shrouding this larger trip.”
Questions about Sanford’s whereabouts arose early this week. For two days after reporters started asking questions, his office had stated that “he had gone hiking on the trail.”
Cornered at the Atlanta airport by a reporter from The State newspaper, Sanford revealed Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, that he’d gone to Argentina for a seven day trip.
When news first broke about his mysterious disappearance, Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press she did not know where her husband had gone for the Father’s Day weekend.
What kind of father goes away to have an extramarital affair on Father’s Day weekend? Sorry boys, I won’t be here for Father’s Day…I am going to see my hot Argentinean mistress.
Sanford emerged Wednesday, June 23rd, 2009 at an afternoon news conference, where he openly talked of his love of hiking and how he used to guide trips along the Appalachian Trail, and eventually tearfully apologized to his wife, his staff and his friends…but without yet saying what he was apologizing for.
“I hurt a lot of different folks,” he said, occasionally choking up throughout the news conference that lasted about 20 minutes.
With those watching still wondering what he was admitting, Sanford said: “The odyssey that we’re all on in life is with regard to heart.”
Several residents stated they were disappointed.
“He shouldn’t have lied to us. He should have been up straight,” said college student Gerald Walker, 19, in downtown Columbia. “It’s very embarrassing for someone in a leadership role that we are supposed to respect, especially me being a young guy.”
Glenn Mitchell, of Columbia, stated that “he felt Sanford’s absence showed a lack of concern for the state.
“He left the state unattended,” stated Mitchell, 54, out of work recuperating from surgery. “He just hasn’t been there for us.”
State Rep. Todd Rutherford, D-Columbia, has called for Sanford’s resignation.
“There is nothing left to save,” Rutherford stated. “There is no reason for him to remain as governor.”
(pic) OK boys, this is how you treat women…you love, you cheat on them…and what this bible means to me…well, it does make a good publicity shot me swearing in on it…
Sanford, a former three term congressman, was elected governor in 2002. He has more than a year remaining in his second term and therefore will be barred by state law from running again.
He criticized the $787 billion federal stimulus law and efforts by legislators to claim a share of it by saying in tough times a family would sit around the table and find ways to cut spending.
His vocal battle against the Obama administration over the stimulus money won praise from conservative pundits, but ultimately, a state court order required him to take the money.
Sanford’s announcement came just one day after another prominent Republican, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, apologized to his GOP Senate colleagues after revealing last week that he had an affair with a campaign staffer and was resigning from the GOP leadership.
This guy was a real sap…here are a few of his love Emails to the Argentina woman known as “Maria”…
The woman, identified only as “Maria,” refused to talk one of the paper’s reporters today when approached at her home in Buenos Aires…but the governor’s office doesn’t dispute the content of the emails, which date back to roughly one year ago.
Hot from the press…the State of South Carolina discloses that it’s been in possession of love emails since December of 2008.
Baby Boomer Warning: These emails are super sappy. Not being a soap opera watcher or a hopeless romantic, they made me want to heave…Here’s an excerpt of one Sanford love email to his beloved. Don’t say we didn’t warn you:
Two, mutual feelings …. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details…
Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true – at the same time we are in a hopelessly – or as you put it impossible – or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes…
Lastly I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before – so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know… In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.
If he had spent this much time on his marriage, he would not be looking for something a little strange.
Personally, I am getting tired of all the alligator tears with men that confess that the are cheaters. You will get no symphony from me and I am not one of your “bubba’s” who thinks that makes you a real man…and a applauds your bad behavior.
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The first word that springs to mind with all of these ‘holier than thou’, Promise (Crossed Fingers!) Keeper type republican (little ‘r’) neocons public leaders who think that all they need to do when caught is to get weepy and apologize and— PRESTO! Thy slate shall be magically wiped clean—much like visiting ye olde church weekly and then doing whatever their horny parts wish the rest of the week—-anyway the WORD is HYPOCRITE!!!!! The second word is CORRUPTION. Thanks, I feel better now,
I just have one question?
Why do you repeat the same story twice?