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NEWS ABOUT: Mark Sanford

Mark Sanford stories: 83 news summaries

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ANALYSIS

Marital Woes Strike Ensign's Ex-Housemate

'Christian fellowship home' in DC was also Sanford hangout

Jul 17, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add Chip Pickering to the list of Republicans with fidelity issues: The former congressman’s estranged wife is suing his mistress for alienation of affection—in essence, destroying the Pickerings' marriage, TPM Muckracker reports. Oddly enough, Pickering lived in a Capitol Hill home that operates as a sort of boarding... More »

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Congress • GOP • affair • infidelity • Chip Pickering • John Ensign • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • C Street • Leisha Pickering

(Newser) - A trove of emails from Mark Sanford's office contains no discussion of his recent disappearance or the resulting scandal, the State reports. Critics suspect the South Carolina governor is holding something back. “It’s a very legitimate suspicion,” a professor says. “Complex organizations in the 21st century... More »

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email • South Carolina • Argentina • infidelity • adultery • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

Sanford Disappeared Last Year, Too, Emails Show

Commerce secretary didn't know where to reach guv

Jul 16, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford’s recent Argentine excursion wasn’t the first time he had gone missing: His commerce secretary didn’t know where to reach him in June 2008, either, emails reveal. “Need contact number for (Sanford) ASAP,” the secretary wrote to a Sanford staffer on the 28th—a... More »

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taxes • email • South Carolina • affair • infidelity • adultery • governor • economic stimulus package • political scandal • Mark Sanford • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

 Forget Best: Colbert 
  Wants to Be Worst  

Demands title from Olbermann over sweet-talking email to Mark Sanford

Jul 16, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stephen Colbert is a glutton for punishment. Keith Olbermann dished some out to conservative media outlets Tuesday, spanking them for plying Gov. Mark Sanford with email offers of friendly treatment, and awarding them “Worst People in the World” honors. But he omitted Colbert, despite Colbert’s email offering Sanford... More »

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entertainment • press • journalism • Keith Olbermann • American media • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Mark Sanford • conservative media

 Sanford Takes Another
Quick Trip—With His Wife

Gov. postpones economic talks as SC unemployment surges

Jul 15, 09 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford is canceling state business to take another abrupt trip, but this time his wife is going along, the Greenville News reports. The South Carolina governor will be gone with wife Jenny the rest of the week, forcing the postponement of several meetings. His staff is in contact with... More »

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South Carolina • Mark Sanford • Jenny Sanford

Media Sucked Up to Sanford
to Get Access, Emails Show

News outlets offered aides a 'friendly' ear

Jul 15, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - No surprise that a lot of media outlets tried to butter up Mark Sanford’s aides in order to win interviews with the governor when he was AWOL in Argentina. But their emails, obtained by the State, show the lengths they were willing to go to, some coming about... More »

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ethics • media • South Carolina • press • sympathy • governor • scandal • interview • Mark Sanford • media frenzy

(Newser) - Mark Sanford's embattled staffers really didn't know where he was when he bolted to Argentina to visit his lover last month, the State reports. Emails and phone records show that Sanford's chief of staff called the governor's cell phones 15 times during the trip without getting an answer. His communications... More »

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South Carolina • Argentina • governor • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Appalachian Trail • María Belén Chapur

Sanford Looked for Real Estate
in Argentina

Governor kept evenings free, shopped around during state trip

Jul 10, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford requested meetings with real estate agents during his state-funded trade mission to Argentina last year and rearranged his itinerary to ensure he had at least one free evening in Buenos Aires, according to emails obtained by the AP. The South Carolina governor has said the trip was when... More »

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South Carolina • Argentina • affair • infidelity • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

SC Republicans Vote to Slap Sanford's Wrist

Toothless resolution indicates gov is likely
to keep his job

Jul 7, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Carolina Republicans voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford last night, but since they didn’t call for his head, he’s likely to keep it, Politico reports. They chided Sanford for failing to adhere to the “core principles and beliefs” of the party, but said that “barring... More »

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South Carolina • affair • censure • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Republicans

OPINION

 Who Killed Dignity? 
 Ask Sanford, Jacko, Palin ... 

Today's celebs would make George Washington blush

Jul 7, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Carrying himself with honor and restraint was of utmost importance to George Washington and Americans for generations afterward—but for today’s public figures, the premium on dignity has faded, says David Brooks in the New York Times. Washington’s conduct “during times of temptation” made him “a... More »

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ethics • culture • Michael Jackson • David Brooks • Sarah Palin • George Washington • Mark Sanford • President Obama • dignity

(Newser) - The calls for Mark Sanford to resign are growing louder, but recent history suggests that the South Carolina governor has a chance to hold on, writes the Washington Times. While every politician who admits an affair faces calls to quit, only those who have committed real crimes are hounded from... More »

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South Carolina • sex scandal • Antonio Villaraigosa • David Vitter • Eliot Spitzer • affair • Kwame Kilpatrick • political scandal • Jim McGreevey • Mark Sanford

(Newser) - While Mark Sanford spews "sloppy verbiage" in the "salacious terms of a Harlequin bodice-ripper," his wife is also making a statement—with her wardrobe, Robin Givhan writes in the Washington Post. Givhan finds "something splendidly defiant" in Jenny Sanford's white shorts and flowery tops. Other... More »

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fashion • clothes • affair • wardrobe • Mark Sanford • Jenny Sanford • women's issues

(Newser) - It's a relative tidal wave of good news for Mark Sanford: Wife Jenny issued a statement today calling his affair "inexcusable" but reiterating that she's willing to forgive him, reports ABC News. As for his political career, she says it's up to South Carolina voters and lawmakers whether to... More »

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South Carolina • sex scandal • Argentina • affair • governor • Mark Sanford • Jenny Sanford • Maria Belen Shapur • women's issues

Sanford Didn't Use State Money for Trips: Cops

Inquiry finds he broke no laws, as governor says he won't resign

Jul 2, 09 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - South Carolina authorities say philandering Governor Mark Sanford did not use state funds to visit his Argentine mistress or break any laws, the State reports. “The man has been open with us,” said the director of the State Law Enforcement Division after an investigation. "We have... More »

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South Carolina • Argentina • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Reggie Lloyd • State Law Enforcement Division

analysis

Southern Cheaters Call on God—but Which God?

Sanford used God-talk in confession; Spitzer, McGreevey didn't

Jul 2, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford's liberal use of religious rhetoric in confessing his affair prompts Gustav Niebuhr to observe that whether Sanford is pandering or actually penitent, he is very much in the tradition of Southern politicians caught in scandal. Bill Clinton, David Vitter, and John Edwards all applied an ample dose of... More »

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Southeast • Christianity • religion • affair • scripture • cheating • political scandal • conservatism • Mark Sanford

Scandal Dogs Family Values Republicans

Sanford, Ensign aren't the only 1994 GOP frosh with marital woes

Jul 2, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apart from the sex scandals, what do John Ensign and Mark Sanford have in common? They’re both members of the much-hyped GOP House class of 1994, Politico observes. Those Republican revolutionaries swept into Washington promising a focus on family values, but 14 years later, no fewer than a dozen... More »

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Newt Gingrich • sex scandal • family values • John Ensign • Mark Sanford • Republicans • Pat Schroeder

(Newser) - The vise is tightening around Mark Sanford's political career. South Carolina officials, including fellow Republicans, are lining up to urge the governor to resign, reports the State. The pressure has ramped up considerably since Sanford's admission yesterday that he'd "crossed lines" with other women besides his Argentine mistress. The... More »

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South Carolina • Argentina • affair • governor • scandal • Mark Sanford • Jim DeMint

ANALYSIS

Americans
Strike Out on Defining Sex

Not really sure what counts as third base, what's home plate

Jul 1, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Clinton said oral sex wasn’t sex. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with women he wasn’t married to, but not “the sex line.” But that’s a really blurry line, the AP reports. “Nobody is really in charge of that term,” said... More »

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Bill Clinton • sex • oral sex • Mark Sanford • Kinsey Institute

OPINION

 Jenny Sanford  
 a Model for the 
 Betrayed 

Guv's wife 'neither enabler nor victim'

Jul 1, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jenny Sanford is showing the world “a new and improved version of the betrayed political spouse—neither enabler nor victim,” writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. She’s not taking the stand-by-the-cheater for the cameras approach; she hasn’t released a “supportive” and “euphemistic” statement.... More »

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affair • cheating • political scandal • Mark Sanford • spouse • role model • Jenny Sanford • women's issues

(Newser) - Mark Sanford met his Argentine mistress more times than he’s originally let on, he told the AP today. Sanford, who’d originally copped to only four meetings with Maria Belen Chapur during an 8-year relationship, described five in the past year alone, including two romantic getaways in New York,... More »

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South Carolina • sex scandal • interview • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • María Belén Chapur

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