First lady Jenny Sanford spoke about her husband, Governor Mark Sanford’s affair for the first time last week. Two of her closest friends, Marjory Wentworth and Virginia Lane were on CBS’s “The Early Show” Monday morning and spoke about the first lady’s current condition. Lane is a godmother for one of the Sanford boys and says Sanford is holding on.

“She’s doing as well as expected. She’s just always had this amazing ability to focus when she’s got all of these trials going on around her and focus on what’s right, what’s wrong, and how to get to protecting her boys,” says Lane.

Lane says Jenny Sanford is standing tall, and has become a role-model around the country. After Sanford found out about the affair, she told Wentworth and Lane. Lane says they were shocked.

“It was heartbreaking, Mark’s the last person on the planet that we thought this would happen. (reporter: were those her words too?) Absolutely,” says Lane. [Read more...]

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is poised to go public to reveal the not so surprising move that he intends to run for Governor of South Carolina. McMaster is taking to the airwaves Monday night August 24 on statewide television and on the internet at 6pm to lay out his plans to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010. McMaster is also expected to make a formal announcement Tuesday about his plans for the state’s economic future. Three weeks ago, McMaster filed a campaign disclosure form with the State Ethics Commission stating his intentions to run for governor. McMaster has raised a modest $650 for his gubernatorial campaign, however he is expected to move more than $1.1 million in his attorney general re-election fund to his gubernatorial campaign fund.