A year later, Gov. Mark Sanford disappears — again
On the day that Nikki Haley is likely to nab the GOP nomination to become his all-but-certain replacement, the man who made the Appalachian Trail a code word for philandering has disappeared.
Again.
This time, we’re headed straight to baggage claim at Hartsfield-Jackson. From The State newspaper in Columbia:
Nearly one year to the day that Gov. Mark Sanford embarked on a secret trip to Argentina and turned S.C. politics on its ear, Sanford’s whereabouts are unknown to the press and the public.
Monday, Sanford’s spokesman Ben Fox told The State Sanford is on “personal time” but declined to say where the governor is.
Sanford is due back in the office this morning, Fox said. He spent most of the Father’s Day weekend with his four sons, and the governor has been in communication with his staff over the weekend and Monday, Fox added.
State Law Enforcement Division Director Reggie Lloyd said Sanford has security with him but would not elaborate.
“We’ve left it up to the governor’s office to disclose where (Sanford) is,” Lloyd said.
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said Monday no one has informed him of the governor’s location.
“The governor is entitled to personal time, vacation time. No problem with that,” said John Crangle, director of Common Cause, a nonprofit that encourages open government. “But, because of the importance of the office of governor, he should at least notify the lieutenant governor if he’s outside the state. When you assume a public office, you forfeit some of your privacy because you’re accountable to the public.”
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118 comments Add your comment
king of mean
June 22nd, 2010
12:56 pm
i saw him at a bar in Milledgeville…
king of mean
June 22nd, 2010
12:56 pm
i saw him at a bar in Milledgeville…
Matt
June 22nd, 2010
1:01 pm
I’m sure he’s actually on the Appalachian Trail with his Argentinan woman.
Rickster
June 22nd, 2010
1:02 pm
He’s hanging with Ben Rothlisberger!
Diehard
June 22nd, 2010
1:19 pm
He’s practicing for a July 4th gig with Elvis in the Bermuda Triangle . . .
CrazyInGA
June 22nd, 2010
1:21 pm
We all need to be very careful about the people we elect to hold public office. This guy is a first rate loser and should never hold office again.
DMB
June 22nd, 2010
1:21 pm
You’ve got it all wrong. He’s playing golf with Tiger Woods.
Wake up Liberals
June 22nd, 2010
1:23 pm
He’s on a border patrol assignment from all hail mighty Obamer!
JF McNamara
June 22nd, 2010
1:23 pm
How about we leave this guy alone and let him have a personal life.
The Producer
June 22nd, 2010
1:24 pm
Diehard,
I think you are on to something. He is in the Bermuda Triangle…….
Sham
June 22nd, 2010
1:26 pm
Siting at the World Cup cheering for who else……Argentina.
Confused
June 22nd, 2010
1:27 pm
Maybe he is in Argentina with Sonny Perdue showing Sonny the “sights”
GB
June 22nd, 2010
1:28 pm
He is working out the final details for a reality show.
Cekker
June 22nd, 2010
1:30 pm
He’s in Peru with Joran van der Sloot
lori
June 22nd, 2010
1:32 pm
DMB, yours is the only one that was funny!
Buba
June 22nd, 2010
1:40 pm
I heard he’s on the Argentinian Tail.
sleeze
June 22nd, 2010
1:40 pm
No.. the only hysterical one is the one by JF McNamara.
TK
June 22nd, 2010
1:43 pm
Isn’t he the host of ABC’s summer game show airing tonight?
After all, the program is aptly named “Downfall”.
Whoknows
June 22nd, 2010
1:43 pm
Maybe he went to the moon.
Travis McGee
June 22nd, 2010
1:46 pm
I saw him whistling, singing, hooting and hollering on a sidewalk outside his wife’s house down on Sullivan Island. Someone said the police were on the way!
Mitzymy
June 22nd, 2010
1:46 pm
He knows he’s on his way out, so he is hooking back up with his Argentina love.
Mark
June 22nd, 2010
1:48 pm
I would hope he is in either South Africa or Buenos Aires with his wonderful lady….do you blame him ?……live the life !
Skin And Bones
June 22nd, 2010
1:51 pm
Sanford Stadium – layin’ sod!
Stu
June 22nd, 2010
1:52 pm
He’s playing cards with Jimmy Hoffa.
Ahnald
June 22nd, 2010
1:52 pm
Lets see…choice was sbitchy,boring American woman or fun,high energy, beautiful Argentinian lady….hmmmmmmm…..good job Mark
Michael
June 22nd, 2010
1:52 pm
Well I met him last nite at The Pink Pony …. said he had just flown in from Argentina.
JB
June 22nd, 2010
2:00 pm
I just saw him singing “Have you Seen Her” – Brandy – This guy must be on some drugs!!!
AYKM!
June 22nd, 2010
2:02 pm
Add him and Argentina girl to the statistics. Just another a@#hole that can’t keep his pecker in his pants.
borat
June 22nd, 2010
2:03 pm
He is auditioning for Dancing with the Stars
Tom
June 22nd, 2010
2:03 pm
Has anyone seen Nikki Haley today? Maybe he’s found a new soulmate.
hotlanta
June 22nd, 2010
2:06 pm
I wish I had his jobn where I can leave for 5 days and leave the office unattended and get a nice pension. It’s nice to be white and male in America.
Ahnald
June 22nd, 2010
2:08 pm
Hotlanta…..Damn Right…and I love every second !
jb
June 22nd, 2010
2:14 pm
Hey Travis McGee, are you still in Cedar Key? I heard that from ole’ Johnny Mac.
You Bet'cha
June 22nd, 2010
2:19 pm
Taping new season of the Bachelor.
arnold
June 22nd, 2010
2:20 pm
I opt for his teaching his Nikki how to hike.
Hank
June 22nd, 2010
2:21 pm
He’s on a booty call…
Honky Talkin'
June 22nd, 2010
2:22 pm
This was a slow-pitch story for bloggers. There is not one legitimate entry about his whereabouts. Well, we at least know he’s not with his soon to be ex-wife.
Fergie
June 22nd, 2010
2:23 pm
I hope he’s gone to Argentina to see the woman he loves.
Billy
June 22nd, 2010
2:25 pm
He is on a missionary trip to India.
middler and so tired of all the rhetoric :
June 22nd, 2010
2:26 pm
SC has a dishonest, inept adolescent as current governor and will next have a teapartier who hangs onto her “military” husband’s coattails and invokes God at every turn. What happens when the proof comes out that she too sleeps around (which almost seems to be a requirement to be a conservative Republican politician)! Blessed by Sara Pallin who left her governship to reap the financial rewards while she is hot. I am neither conservative nor liberal but am like most people who are somewhere in the middle: I just want an honest person who really wants the office for which he/she is running and who represents his/her whole constituency, not just the people who subscribe to their religious and ideological ideas. God help us all if something doesn’t change in American politics soon.
David Thomas
June 22nd, 2010
2:27 pm
I like Buba’s comment – “He’s on the Argentinian Tail.” Priceless
YeahRight
June 22nd, 2010
2:27 pm
He’s back on the trail hunting brown beer and a little wild beaver.
ladybird
June 22nd, 2010
2:28 pm
He’s going over game plans with Diego Maradonna/
What's Important
June 22nd, 2010
2:30 pm
Hotlanta, what has white got to do with it?
SouthernFemale
June 22nd, 2010
2:32 pm
You couldn’t have …… he was with Nikki, planning how to make her “transparency” even more opaque!
Jimmy Carter was a fool
June 22nd, 2010
2:33 pm
The South American mistress is so ugly – if you have an affair shouldn’t you “upgrade”. His wife is much more attractive.
No Longer Republican
June 22nd, 2010
2:33 pm
here here middler!!! Agree 100%. Time for the crap to end, but I believe for it end we have to have financial reform in the election process. That’s how the tea party has gained so much attention…as radical and wild as they are, their backers have deep pockets. It doesn’t matter to them that they are destroying the American dream of most people with their hate and their rhetoric. They just want power!
Jed
June 22nd, 2010
2:36 pm
Haha,
Yeah Hotlanta,
Nice to be white and male in America, which means you’re on the bottom of the affirmative action hiring totem pole. Funny how that’s a crime to some people.
mitch
June 22nd, 2010
2:45 pm
he’s in Argentina chowing down on tuna tacos
Johnny
June 22nd, 2010
2:49 pm
He had gone hiking in pakistan
Mouthbreathing conservative
June 22nd, 2010
2:51 pm
As a card carrying member of the G.O. of P. he’s entitled to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants and to WHOever he wants because he is always right, always blessed and always knows best.
Hector
June 22nd, 2010
2:53 pm
Who cares ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Chris
June 22nd, 2010
2:53 pm
he’s wiping the dribble off his chin, while promising to not cry so much, begging his “soul mate” to take him back. kinda like the beach scene in bedazzled with brandon frazier.
wakeupfolks
June 22nd, 2010
2:55 pm
I think the Governor is really GAY playing everybody for a fool!!
YeahRight
June 22nd, 2010
2:57 pm
Must every story be a repository for racists bullcrap. I hate hearing whining about how the race of the whiner is getting the short end of the stick.
Wilbur
June 22nd, 2010
2:58 pm
Mark who?
Donny Corleone
June 22nd, 2010
2:59 pm
Tang! It’s not just for breakfast anymore!
Mark
June 22nd, 2010
3:01 pm
Blame it on Rio!
Scoop Jack
June 22nd, 2010
3:09 pm
He’s in Pensacola on “tar watch”, like “that’s a nice as* on that sistar!!!!
Where's Waldo?
June 22nd, 2010
3:09 pm
Waldo has gone AWOL again….. probably found a new honey closer to home.
Scoop Jack
June 22nd, 2010
3:11 pm
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Anonymous
June 22nd, 2010
3:17 pm
He’s practicing his family values in the Argentine bush.
boots
June 22nd, 2010
3:17 pm
It’s George Bush’s fault, but give Obama six more years and he will get the answer. In the meantime, he’s off to the golf course!
boots
June 22nd, 2010
3:19 pm
hotlanta – ever heard of Bill Cambell? And Obama is playing more golf these days than Tiger Woods.
UGASlobberknocker
June 22nd, 2010
3:22 pm
I think he and Sarah Palin are doing the hibbity dibbity down at Hilton Head.
three jack
June 22nd, 2010
3:27 pm
if only the president would do the same, take some personal time…like maybe 2 1/2 years.
hello
June 22nd, 2010
3:29 pm
He’s here with me and he’s dabbling in chocolate milk. The Governor loves woman of color.
Alabama Communist
June 22nd, 2010
3:31 pm
No doubt his ex wife put a contract out on him! Why do you think Security is with him?
Arthur Blank
June 22nd, 2010
3:51 pm
I want to have sex with Vicki Locke, then Karen Handle, then…….Shirley Franklin!
Maude
June 22nd, 2010
3:52 pm
Why is he still governor? ??
Hokiehi22
June 22nd, 2010
3:54 pm
well I would think he’s the guy for you hotlanta. Didn’t ya’ll love your Mayor of DC better after being caught on tape smokin crack w/a prostitute in a motel? You must have, cuz ya voted him back into office. Ahhh, to be black and in office in America.
B
June 22nd, 2010
4:08 pm
I wish everyone would get that memo ‘ If you work for the public you are accountable to the public.” Some of the government believe the people answers to them.
Jeff
June 22nd, 2010
4:09 pm
I hope he’s getting every “piece” he can. If you’re going to get criticized for it, you might as well get the benefit. You go boy!
Tired of it ALL
June 22nd, 2010
4:10 pm
middler and so tired of all the rhetoric – why don’t you run for office? I’m sure you couldn’t do any worse than the selection we currently have…
and he’s probably out looking for a job to support his kids since he’s going through a divorce and loosing his job…
Eugene
June 22nd, 2010
4:15 pm
SC has some hot politics…
CAROLINAMAN
June 22nd, 2010
4:16 pm
It is so amazing how the conversation always leads to our president. I guess it is worst to play occassional golf rather than being a cocaine head who is responsible for thousands dead in a war of pride. Can we just support the president like most you lames would have supported airhead Palin and almost dead McCain. Our country was screwed up prior to him entering office CLOWNS! I thought this conversation was about Mark Sanford who did what most do. And it’s not like his wife was a saint.
Eraserhead
June 22nd, 2010
4:25 pm
He’s probably at the World Cup watching Argentina beat Greece 2-0.
CAROLINAMAN
June 22nd, 2010
4:26 pm
I truly hope you CLOWNS on here don’t have any kids. If so this world is truly headed for destruction. What racist comments from stupid ass white and black folks on here. Stick to the facts people race should have nothing to due with it. We know some people get more breaks than others including people of all shades. It’s not always what you know but who you know and that’s just how it is. Other countries call this the land of the free but I see America the land of the free to be a a**holes!
Todd
June 22nd, 2010
4:33 pm
I saw him with Ron Jeremy and Nina Hartley
He is in Alabama
June 22nd, 2010
4:41 pm
Laundering money for the Oxendine campaign
SC
June 22nd, 2010
4:42 pm
Some of the comments are funny. I am from Charleston. I do not understand why so many politicians try to live life out of the public eye when they are public figures?
scott
June 22nd, 2010
4:45 pm
another hypocrite republican…thier motto??do as i say not as i do…he should have been out of office long ago
Liberal Loser
June 22nd, 2010
4:53 pm
He is probably hanging out with John Edwards and Al Gore…Two fake phony democrats that full of it!!! Who cheats on a wife with cancer…what a scumbag!!
Are you kidding?
June 22nd, 2010
4:55 pm
Jed, are you serious? I am sorry to tell you that if you are a white male and at the bottom of being hired anywhere, then you suck! LOL…I mean, really you are a loser…how do you fail in a system DESIGNED for you? How pitiful! No amount of so-called “affirmative action” can balance that head start that you (as a whole) received…c’mon Dude. Tell us how you really feel, CarolinaMan..lol.
loretta
June 22nd, 2010
4:57 pm
He’s looking for Osama Bin Laden
Conservative CooCoo
June 22nd, 2010
4:58 pm
Governor SanFraud
Greensboro, Georgia
June 22nd, 2010
5:00 pm
————————————————-
……Joshua Nesbitt for Heisman……
————————————————-
Jake
June 22nd, 2010
5:15 pm
He was at Floyd’s barber shop this morning, getting a trim.
best1andonly
June 22nd, 2010
5:18 pm
Probably been at his desk all along. Who would think to look for a guy working in SC?
BD
June 22nd, 2010
5:28 pm
He “went to talk to a man about a dog.”
Justin Case
June 22nd, 2010
5:44 pm
hotlanta is a idiot
Big Jerry
June 22nd, 2010
5:45 pm
From all the folks in West
Virginia,….thank you God for South Carolina politics!
Nate
June 22nd, 2010
5:45 pm
It must be her birthday….
Flobert
June 22nd, 2010
6:02 pm
It’s been a tough year, thank you South Carolina for all the belly-laughs….
JTK
June 22nd, 2010
6:07 pm
Jim Galloway molests collies…and boys.
gerald c clemmons
June 22nd, 2010
6:10 pm
are you kidding, you’re praching to the choir. tell em brother.
To Liberal Loser
June 22nd, 2010
6:16 pm
You asked who cheats on their wife when they have cancer? Here’s the answer: Newt Gingrich!
To Liberal Loser
June 22nd, 2010
6:18 pm
And by the way, unlike those two democrats you mentioned, Newt cheated on two wives!
dawgma
June 22nd, 2010
6:19 pm
South Carolina is a backwoods – hick state anyway. They deserve their gov.
David Granger
June 22nd, 2010
6:21 pm
The sorry piece of scum should have resigned after his first escapade, and when he DIDN’T, he should have been impeached. At the very least, the South Carolina Republican Party should vote to kick him out. If the sorry SOB doesn’t resign this time, impeach the scum bucket.
Richard Chapman
June 22nd, 2010
7:07 pm
He’s having a burrito in Anderson
AK Gei
June 22nd, 2010
7:10 pm
JF, when he became Gov. he gave up all rights to private time. Especially when he travels on MY money.
Sigmund Fraud
June 22nd, 2010
8:00 pm
Read this with a German accent…
“He has a short pecker”
Bill Wallace
June 22nd, 2010
8:02 pm
To Whomever wrote this Articule, Where was your Wife when Mark Sanford was Awol?
mimesscareme
June 22nd, 2010
8:11 pm
I say they shoudl vote in Betty white as govenor. what the hell.
Red Stick
June 22nd, 2010
8:14 pm
Who cares what he is doing. 95% of men would probably do the same thing if they were in his shoes.
Dissy
June 22nd, 2010
8:21 pm
He made it to Hamburg, PA and was last seen in Cabelas getting supplies for the trail. Of course, he wasnt hard to recognize with his “security” standing as close as they could considering he’s been on the trail a few days without showering:)
Getalife
June 22nd, 2010
8:26 pm
He is visiting his 3 month old…
wait for it..wait for it…there it is!
Sunny
June 22nd, 2010
8:28 pm
omg….again Mark? Reeeaallly????
WhoCares
June 22nd, 2010
8:30 pm
Who cares what they do in there personal life as long as they vote for what the people want…. Is there anybody out there that is perfect anyway? Im sure there is trash on everybody if you look hard enough!
SJ
June 22nd, 2010
9:02 pm
He’s clogging the oil leak with his B.S.
mcdume
June 22nd, 2010
9:11 pm
he’s stalking Janet Lansbury at janetlansbury.com
William Harris
June 22nd, 2010
9:56 pm
You’re all wrong! He’s hanging out w/ Sen. Candiddate Alvin Greene…lmao! SC politics AND it’s politicians are (sadly) hilarious!
rumpdog1
June 22nd, 2010
10:06 pm
The guy is with three men in bed.
Rock Dog
June 22nd, 2010
11:51 pm
He could be with Sarah Palin.
Anyone know where Sarah is?
tut
June 22nd, 2010
11:54 pm
Don’t cry for me Argentina!
yorkielee
June 23rd, 2010
10:30 am
I saw him just now at Burger King with Elvis in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
GADOG
July 11th, 2010
11:25 am
Georgia Tech will fall apart this year