Governor Mark Sanford responded Tuesday to recent allegations that he misused the state plane. He said it was basically a politically-driven feeding frenzie.
Concerning allegations that he used a plane to fly to a hair salon at Myrtle Beach and a dentist appointment, Sanford said those were notes in state files taken out of context. He said the hair cut was an $11 drop-in visit to a local discount barber shop which he made during extra time on a business trip.

“I did wrong, I messed up, and there are consequences,” said Sanford.  “But what you can’t do is create a feeding frenzy where every practice, that may have been employed for 20 years, and no other governor faced that question.  The Department of Commerce arranges the trips.  I don’t think you should have one standard for this governor, separate from other governorships in the past, and separate from the standards of other state agencies.”    [Read more...]