Cancel the missing person alert
Has anybody seen this guy?
Because he apparently went missing on Thursday and was last reported here in the Atlanta area. Calls to his cell phone went unanswered, and his wife said earlier today that she had no idea where he was.
However, officials now say that he has been located, although they still won’t say where.
And oh yeah, one more thing. He’s the governor of South Carolina.
From The State:
The whereabouts of Gov. Mark Sanford was unknown for nearly four days, and some state leaders question who was in charge of the executive office.
But Sanford’s office told the lieutenant governor’s office Monday afternoon that Sanford has been reached and he is fine, said Frank Adams, head of Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s office on aging.
Neither the governor’s office nor the State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security for governors, had been able to reach Sanford after he left the mansion Thursday in a black SLED Suburban SUV, said Sen. Jake Knotts and three others familiar with the situation but declined to be identified.
SanfordSanford’s last known whereabouts had been near Atlanta because a mobile telephone tower picked up a signal from his phone, authorities said. His office now knows where he is, Adams said.
First lady Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press earlier Monday her husband has been gone for several days and she did not know where.
She said she was not concerned.
The governor’s state and personal phones had been turned off and he had not responded to phone or text messages since at least the weekend, a source familiar with the situation said.
Jenny Sanford said the governor said he needed time away from their children to write something.
According to Wikipedia, Sanford has four sons. But personally, seeking time away from the kids over Father’s Day weekend strikes me as a bit … odd?
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getalife
June 22nd, 2009
4:42 pm
“Update: The State reports that he’s been in touch and is fine, so no foul play here, just dereliction of duty. Whew!”
Presidential like w.
Geez.
Mort Merkel
June 22nd, 2009
4:48 pm
Thank God, the GOP’s leading light has been located. Yeah, getting away from the kids on Father’s Day is odd, but there’s little about this crackpot that isn’t.
getalife
June 22nd, 2009
4:50 pm
“Write something” is code for going on a bender with prostitutes.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
4:52 pm
Inquiring minds want to know!
Paul
June 22nd, 2009
4:52 pm
THIS was the new thread I’ve waited a few hours for?!!?
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
4:53 pm
getalife–uh, oh! Can’t let the Unmentionable read this! Had something due the other day and told him to leave me alone, I had to write something….
Logical Dude
June 22nd, 2009
4:53 pm
getalife, dang it, you took my decoder ring!
jt
June 22nd, 2009
4:54 pm
Follies. Buford highway.
Logical Dude
June 22nd, 2009
4:55 pm
yeah, he pulled an Elliot Spitzer. . . I mean, he pulled a John Edwards. . . I mean, he pulled a. . . I mean, I can’t wait to see his book when it comes out!
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 22nd, 2009
4:58 pm
He’s probably scheming the secession of the Southern half of the United States from Obozoville.
Kewl.
Go Mark!
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
4:58 pm
Newsflash! What was he writing? His mama’s recipe for squirrel stew!
DebbieDoRight
June 22nd, 2009
4:58 pm
The Governor, dressed smartly in a light blue cheerleader outfit with matching pom poms, has been residing at Ma Mainey’s a smart, urban, local Gay Prostitute Dude Ranch in Nevada. Sources from the ranch say, “The Governor showed up, stripped down to his unmentionables, and did a shimmy on the table to Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman Hear Me Roar.” Others, present at the lodge, (who looked eeringly like D. Cheney and K. Rove); said that his performance, (both on the table and elsewhere) was “wondrous and glorious”. Indeed.
Paul
June 22nd, 2009
5:02 pm
DebbieDoRight
Bill Maher was right. You can’t tell a Republican from a Democrat any more -
Pogo
June 22nd, 2009
5:04 pm
Jay’s attempt to try to find a chink in the armor of a border state’s Republican governor is pretty much boring. We know, Jay, Republicans are evil and there must have been something nefarious going on. Blah. Blah. Blah. More importantly, I congratulate Will.I.Am of the BEP’s for have his body guards punch out the social parasite, Perez Hilton, who is one of Jay’s fellow blog-site master baiters.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
PAUL @ 5:02–Ain’t it the truth!
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
Mort Merkel,
“Yeah, getting away from the kids on Father’s Day is odd,”
More family values at work.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
POGO–A border state? You studyin’ history with Jay?
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:08 pm
Pogo,
So violence is the answer. Nice to know.
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:09 pm
getalife,
““Write something” is code for going on a bender with prostitutes.”
Was he with Vitter?
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:10 pm
Paul,
“THIS was the new thread I’ve waited a few hours for?!!?”
Not quite as intriguing as the rat stew posts down below, huh?
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:11 pm
jewcowboy–family values, gotta luv ‘em! Jus’ sayin’
Paul
June 22nd, 2009
5:11 pm
jewcowboy
bleah -
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:12 pm
jewcowboy– @5:10, dinner topi at the bleech banquet!
@@
June 22nd, 2009
5:13 pm
Probably some of that “personal” business that dems say is none of anybody’s….
Michael H. Smith
June 22nd, 2009
5:15 pm
While Houdini Sanford was off doing whatever, our President Osamer was obviously having a JFK attack.
“United We Serve”
http://www.serve.gov/remarks.asp
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:16 pm
josef nix,
In my expirience:
Family values = Republican hypocrisy
getalife
June 22nd, 2009
5:24 pm
Tweet from 8 hours ago:
“SC’s government structure fundamentally flawed http://www.postandcourier.c... #sctweets #gop”
Mmmm, wonder why he would come to Atlanta to write that?
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:27 pm
jewcowboy– @ 5:16, yeah, but let’s not forget Prop 8, preacher Warren, DADT, California DOMA brief, and the recent crumbs,,,can’t really tell the difference, myself…jus’ sayin’
getalife
June 22nd, 2009
5:27 pm
Oops.
Here is the link:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/21/sanford86728/
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 22nd, 2009
5:27 pm
“I was recently made aware that Governor Sanford has frequently been eluding SLED agents and disappearing at odd times,” Knotts said. Previously, Sanford has not been out of all contact – including with his own office – for this long before, a source, who insisted on anonymity, said.
If this is a problem then who was running the United States from 1993 to 2000?
Hmmmm?
Pilgrim
June 22nd, 2009
5:30 pm
I think he finally found out, like so many Republicans, that running a state, or any piece of government, is not so easy when times are tough and people are losing jobs and sales taxes are on the decline and property values are falling and banks are failing and that sort of stuff. And, what’s especially bad is when there are no Democrats to blame, unless you are stupid enough to think that everything is Obama’s fault. Then again, I have met some mighty stupid folks in my time.
getalife
June 22nd, 2009
5:32 pm
Why would he run from sled agents Andy?
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:34 pm
Josef nix @5.27,
I would almost agree with you, but you would have to change it to:
Equality = Democrat hypocrisy
Though I wouldn’t go that far; yet. Check back with me in a couple of months and we will see where or fierce advocate is.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:35 pm
PILGRIM–”Then, again I have met some mighty stupid folks in my time.”
Been talkin’ in the mirror again, has ye? Jus’ kiddin’, Bubba, jus’ kiddin’
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:37 pm
jewcoyboy–i’ll refer you back to your post to me yesterday, with all due respect. You’re still young enough to hold onto “yet.” Wish I could.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
5:39 pm
jewcowboy–you might be surprised to find out that I am cutting him some slack these days. He’s got his handsful with Iran.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 22nd, 2009
5:40 pm
Maybe he’s worried Obozo is going to start a nuclear holocaust and just wanted to get some where safe.
I can understand that.
getalife
June 22nd, 2009
5:41 pm
Perhaps he is trying to keep up with the drama like drama queen palin.
Writing an op ed saying his government is broken, cut and run to the ATL on Father’s Day without telling his family and headline on Drudge is pretty dramatic.
He does look like he drinks heavily and ATL has some fine women
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 22nd, 2009
5:51 pm
Though he promised his wife as a condition of his running for president that he would quit the vile weed tobacco, the president has struggled with smoking. During the campaign he admitted falling off the tobacco wagon a few times.
Weakling, forcing every body else to do what he can’t do, hypocrisy, thou name is Obozo.
I would say lead by example, but we don’t need anymore spineless, retarded Muslims running around.
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:52 pm
Josef nix @ 5.37,
That is not to say I am not frustrated. The DOJ brief was uncalled for and the federal empoyee benefits should have been given on day 1.
I hope by ratcheting up the pressure O sees us not as a group that will be content to be patronized.
That said, it is only 6 months in, and most of those things require Congress to change. O needs to be the voice that forces Congress to act.
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
5:55 pm
I report @ 5.40,
Without his family. That sounds about right for most modern Republican politicians.
Pilgrim
June 22nd, 2009
5:58 pm
josef,
I wuz jest seein’ who I culd draw out of the closet.
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
6:00 pm
I report,
So smoking is sign of weakness? I missed that ad with the Marlboro man.
Frederick Douglass
June 22nd, 2009
6:00 pm
Did they check Magic City? Since his state doesn’t need stimulus money, surely there’s enough in the coffers for “Old Guv” to drop a few bucks at a titty bar.
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
6:02 pm
Enter your comments here
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
6:03 pm
PILGRIM–and which closet might that be? There are so many…
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
6:04 pm
Sorry for the 6.02. Pickin BlackBerrys and the keys are way to small.
Frederick Douglass
June 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
The guy looks like John Boehner’s b*stard brother.
josef nix
June 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
jewcowboy–yes, and Congress on both sides of the aisle have signaled willingness to repeal DADT and 60% of the population agrees, as well as a rather heteroclite representation of this blog…no, there’s something else at work here…
jewcowboy
June 22nd, 2009
6:09 pm
Josef nix @ 6.05,
Action?