The Senator in charge of a subcommittee investigating Governor Sanford’s travel expenses says today was one of the most bizarre days of his life, when the Governor held a press conference across the street from his Greenville office on Wade Hampton Boulevard.

Senator David Thomas was taken aback by Sanford’s move.   “The Governor actually came to Greenville, help up the document that I had asked him to produce, the document I knew would help him, using that to attack the actions of my committee.  This is the strangest behavior I’ve seen from a governor and I’ve been in office for 20 years.”

Sanford defended himself against Thomas’s investigation, by siting the document that Thomas had requested and had already been sent, a report released by the governor’s office that shows 230 business class trips made in the past 25 years by former governors and South Carolina officials.

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The House Republican Caucus is meeting in Myrtle Beach this weekend and one of the items on the agenda is possible impeachment proceedings for Governor Sanford.The Republicans hold the majority in the House,so Democrats can only sit back and observe.

Veteran Democrat Representative Grady Brown says that little if anything will be accomplished during the governor’s remaining term. “He’s lost his effectiveness as Governor. There’s no doubt about that. He’s not going to be able to accomplish anything in the next year and 4 months, because of the sitting members of the general assembly being in the house – the powers that be –they’re not going to give him the light of day, in anything he tries to do.”

In the past, Republican leaders in the Senate have asked Sanford to resign, with no success. Lt. Gov Andre Bauer called for his resignation Wednesday. Representative Brown added that he does not expect the governor to resign. “Being forced out is one thing, but I do not think he will voluntarily resign.”

House Speaker Bobby Harrell and members of the House of Representatives will hold their 15th annual agenda planning meeting for the upcoming legislative year. The speaker’s communications spokesperson, Greg Foster, goes over the topics of discussion at the meeting.

“This is the 15th annual legislative agenda planning meeting for the House Republican Caucus. It’s where members have been back home, talking with their constituents, business leaders, and getting ideas of what issues we need to be addressing next year. This is where we get together and start working on a legislative agenda for the next session,” says Foster.

Foster says the meeting happens every year, and many have been misconstrued. [Read more...]