Democrats and Republicans alike are reacting to Governor Sanford’s announcement that he has had an affair.Sanford resigned as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, but when asked if he would resign as governor of South Carolina, he did not respond.
The South Carolina Senate’s Democratic leader John Land of Clarendon County says it stands out to him that Sanford resigned the national organization. “He did that because he didn’t want his infidelity to hurt that organization. Yet he didn’t see fit to resign as governor. I think that’s something he has to make up his mind on and something the Republicans have to make up their minds on since he is their standard bearer for the next 18 months.”
Senator Land says he heard rumors about the affair three weeks ago and when the Governor disappeared, he made the connection. “I thought that might be a result of it. I thought the statement from his wife, that she was taking care of their children and being a mother, the flip side of that was, and this is what I read into it, that he was not being a good father and taking care of the children, and the fact that she didn’t know where he was.” [click to continue…]
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