According to the Associated Press, Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina may be finally coming to a punishment for all his transgressions against his state.
South Carolina lawmakers will begin to consider the impeachment of Sanford next week. Their spokesman says they intend to have a resolution to impeach ready before Christmas for the full Judiciary Committee to consider.
From the Associated Press:
Sanford, a Republican, left the state for five days in June to rendezvous with his Argentine lover. Since he returned and tearfully confessed the affair, he has faced questions about his travel and whether he should be removed from office for misconduct. He has resisted calls to resign.
The meeting is to take up the issue at the heart of an impeachment resolution that four Republicans filed this week. It says Sanford left no one in charge of the state, a dereliction of duty, while he “directed members of his staff in a manner that caused them to deceive and mislead the public officials” about where he was. His staff told reporters he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Harrison, R-Columbia, announced his plans two days after the State Ethics Commission said it would move forward with charges against the two-term governor. The commission spent three months investigating Sanford’s use of state planes for personal and political purposes, unreported trips on donors’ and friends’ planes, pricey commercial travel despite a state low-cost travel rule and personal reimbursements from his campaign account.
The Ethics Commission could release details of those charges as soon as Monday. But Harrison said the ad hoc panel would begin work without that information.
“We don’t need the ethics report for that,” he said
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In politics the state of South Carolina has been a running joke for most of this year. Perhaps if the states lawmakers do something to punish at least one of their wayward leaders, they can gain back some of their lost respect. But don’t expect the phrase ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’ to leave political vocabulary anytime soon.
Sanford is a conservative Republican politician that claim to be an upstanding Christian and family man. It has been disclosed that he has close ties to the infamous C-Street house and The Family which is the group that runs the residence. He has found himself caught in a web with other Republican politicians having ties to C-Street. The web is definitely of their own making and they do not deserve our sympathy.
Picture of Governor Mark Sanford from his state website. Looks quite upstanding doesn't he? Looks can definitely be deceiving.
