Andre Bauer’s offer to S.C.’s Mark Sanford has a time limit
You’ll remember that Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer offered not to run for governor of South Carolina next year, if only Gov. Mark Sanford would step down now.
But the Greenville News today quotes Bauer as saying that his promise is only good through next month. Said the lieutenant governor:
“I’ll probably announce in the latter part of October, and until I announce, I said I’ll just take myself out the running if he’ll step down. But I have to start my campaign at some point.”
Bauer originally made the offer last month after Sanford said he left the state in June to meet his mistress in Argentina without telling anyone where he was. Subsequently, members of the House GOP caucus and House Speaker Bobby Harrell called on Sanford to resign, and the state Ethics Commission is investigating his travels.
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DW
September 18th, 2009
12:08 pm
What an opportunist.