The situation with my state's governor, Mark Sanford, continues to get more interesting:The S.C. Ethics Commission has charged S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of breaking state ethics laws. The commission filed its charges last week but only released them Monday.
Those charges allege that, in 18 instances, Sanford authorized, approved or allowed the purchase of business-class airfare so that he could travel to and within the continents of Europe, Asia and South America.
Four of the flights cited involved a 2008 state Commerce Department trip to Brazil that Sanford extended to Argentina so that the married, two-term Republican governor could see his Argentine lover.
. . . The charges also allege that on 10 occasions Sanford took money from his campaign account and spent it in violation of state ethics law.
Sanford took a total of $2,940.68 from his campaign account and spent it improperly, the commission alleges.
Sanford may actually remain governor even after all of this. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if he did. But he won't come out of it smelling like a rose..
If anything, the situation with Sanford just proves the basic emptiness of the tea party movement.
If the teabaggers are all about being upset over government waste, then why haven't any of them in South Carolina said a word about this controversy which has been brewing for several months?
Oh wait. Mark Sanford isn't Barack Obama.
Now I get it.
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