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37 Ethics Charges for Sanford
Mary Ann Chastain / AP Photo
Just in time for Thanksgiving: An ethics commission in South Carolina has charged Governor Mark Sanford with breaking state laws more than three dozen times by misusing campaign money and airplane travel. It will be up to the state attorney general whether or not to file criminal charges against Sanford. Sanford’s attorneys insist the allegations involve minor and technical aspects of the law.
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Plantagenet
First Bill Clinton, now Mark Sanford.
Demsdisorder
That is just what i was thinking
sophia5
What about "ethics" charges for Mary Landrieu ?
reasonable
First Jefferson, then Harding, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK , THEN Clinton.
Unfortunately, philanderers are not bound by principles; political or otherwise.
rapierwits
False equivalence aside, this is an abstract about misusing state funds for personal gain.
Throw out the bums, crooks, and thieves.
xlntcat
SC like many states are conditioned to accept corruption in government. A GOP legislator months ago reported in an interview that Sanford had been caught diverting a federal grant into his personal campaign fund and they just let him give it back. To make things worse Sanford has been the worst governor in SC's long history of bad governors. He bankrupt the state, has depleted all reserves and they are looking at record deficits for years to come. Double digit unemployment, second highest crime rate with funding cut to prisons, schools crumbling and test score falling even though the didn't have far to fall. The voters in SC need to decide if this is what they deserve.
oldpunk
Surely not the same Mark Sanford who voted to impeach Bill Clinton for having an affair and lying about it while in office?
Surely not the same Mark Sanford who built his career on questioning other people's morals?
Not the Mark Sanford who compared himself to King David? ( The lesser known version left out of the Old Testament where King David faced a Ethics commission )
Who would have thought it?
xlntcat
How about a criminal investigation for Mary Landrieu to account for the billions poured into LA in the aftermath of Katrina that never make it past Baton Rouge to N O before they disappear. It must be voodoo, although I would suggest perhaps we might look in the Landrieus' freezer (Her bubba is LT Gov in Baton Rouge) and don't leave Jindal out of the search.
RogueBeast
If we could only get the ethics hounds pointed toward Rangel, then we would be doing something important.
bobj72
"Rue Beast"; Your preception of crime is tainted by the Affiliation of the perputrator and "The Color Of The Collar."
Demsdisorder
I wish.. but CR he is a black man and that would be racism.
hfb1053
First Mark Sanford, then John Ensign.
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n--Y--cvillekidreasonable
lol
hfb1053
I guess cville's sour mood of earlier today is over and now he's/she's being funny. LOL.
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n--Y--cvillekidhfb1053
nope; guess cville is still sour after all.
diamondgirl
Hey kiddo, thanks for thinking of me, its an honor, even when I am not on here you think of me. I do have a life unlike you who does not.LOL
reasonable
wait, I didn't read that closely enough. cvillekid is talking about hfb1053? Didn't mean to get in the middle of that.
tolatetocry
bill clinton, Spitzer, sanford, ensign
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n--Y--cvillekidDemsdisorder
cvillekid, you need to get out more your starting to get a little hysterical. or are you on a computer in Jail?
diamondgirl
Demsdis, Kiddo, my nick name for him, must not have much of a life he is on here when no one else is on here,and I don't think he really is a kid either..LOL
heyitstodd
Hmmm, the (slightly) more liberal ones on your list were indicted and/or resigned. Those from the "family values" pack, with "god on their side" not so much.
Remember, with Clinton, "it wasn't the affair, it was the lying" according to the Republicons. I guess the lying of Sanford & Ensign mean their stories should be about their political effectiveness, not their personal lives, right?
Dance, righties, dance!
FreedomFreedom
No one here can read. Clinton, Spitzer may have been immoral and cheating husbands, but Ensign and Sanford went beyond that by using public money (Sanford) and payoffs from his parents (Ensign) to support their philandering ways. Big difference between these people.
xlntcat
Are we making a list:
Foley the pedophile
Vitter and the madaam
Craig and the wide stance
Edwards and the love child
How far back do you want to go?
djanimaequeen
The luv guv....bwahhhhhhhhhhahahahahaha!!!! Good one!
devilsadvocate
And to think, he's just 1 of 50 governors. Nobody would even have noticed these had he not gone to "hike the Appalachain Trail". Imagine what would be uncovered if the other 49 governors were looked at more closely.
magoo363
They were looking at another governor more closely, Palin, and she ended up resigning and writing a book. Of course she had 18 ethics charges and a pending investigation regarding the building of her house when she resigned for "the good of the people of Alaska."
devilsadvocate
So that makes 2 of 50. You can bet there's more of this out there than just these 2. And aside from the governors, there are 535 Congressmen and Senators. Still have a long way to go.
magoo363
I think we could employ a lot of people as investigators if we look into governors, Congressmen and Senators. It might be a good idea for a mini-stimulus.
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n--Y--cvillekidDemsdisorder
a little hysterical aren't you?
diamondgirl
kiddo,what are you drinking tonight fool? you are making no sense, he sounds High and way out there. At first I thought it was cute, now I am worried, did we finally get to him? and he has lost his marbles, thats if he ever had them to begin with.
DakLak
Republicans aren't known to have ethics, so how can he be charged for something he doesn't have.
Southern politics are so complex.
Andydrew
Cool. They finally nabbed a Republican! AT LAST!!!
tolatetocry
I wouldn't be spouting ethics with all the tax cheats in the Obama administration!
MaliciousDisorder
Get the RINO out...
matthewbenzor
Evangelics, is this the man you want leading and ADULTERER ......! its called "LEFT BEHIND"
xlntcat
If I remember correctly wasn't one of the leader of the evangelical's caught with a male prostitute and crystal meth. He was on Larry King last year.
neo0071
This is what you get for not quitting your job after running off to far parts of the world and getting caught having an affair with your "Soul Mate" who is not your wife ! with "Public Money"
nortonclybourn
Some of it does seem kind of petty--$900 to attend a republican governor's meeting--what's the big deal? But he brought all this on himself. Set yourself up as a moral paragon superior to everyone else and the legal arbiter of other people's sex lives and your downfall is just about inevitable.
neo0071
cough cough.....Elliot Spitzer...who by the way gave an ethics speech at Harvard the other "Eliot Spitzer's Harvard Speech Calls On Wall Street To 'Tell The Truth'
LOL. when will it end.
FatFreddy
Let's not be too hard on Sanford. He was in love. Really. And love is a many splen....
Ahh, f**k it.
tolatetocry
I hope she was worth the price!
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