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Gov. Tim Pawlenty Gets an 'A' Grade From the Cato Institute
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe libertarian Cato Institute is out with its report card today, and it could provide a major boost for the presidential prospects of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who earned an A. According to its website, Cato is "dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace." Just four governors received an "A" on Cato's report card: Pawlenty, Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Bobby Jindal (R-La.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The report goes on to note that, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has proposed pro-growth reforms, opposed tax increases, and been a relatively frugal ...
South Carolina's Mark Sanford Accepts Stimulus Money, After All
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyEarly last year, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford turned up his nose at federal stimulus funds for his state, saying it would only add to the national debt. That was then. On Tuesday, the Labor Department said the state had gone through the approval process and would begin receiving $97.5 million to help out its strapped unemployment compensation fund. It seems the once stubborn Sanford, staggered by an extramarital affair that threw him off message and effectively ruined his political career, quietly signed a bill two months ago that expanded eligibility for jobless benefits in South ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Mark Sanford Found . . . Kissing a Woman
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! After a building-wide manhunt yesterday, The State newspaper found Gov. Mark Sanford kissing a woman in Columbia, S.C., who was not his wife. The woman was his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, whom the governor pecked on the cheek after seeing her at a victory party in South Carolina. It's an oddly happy ending to the year-long soap opera, but the drama is just getting started in Washington today. Here's what's happening, in the next 60 seconds. - Judgment Day. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, heads to the Situation Room today to discuss ...
Mark Sanford Avoids Criminal Charges in Use of Jet, Funds
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's use of the state aircraft and campaign money for two trips to South America to meet his Argentine lover may have been unwise and unethical. But S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster on Monday said he would not bring criminal charges. McMaster, a Republican candidate for governor, said the "evidence does not support, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the governor knowingly, willfully and intentionally set out to break state law," The State newspaper reported. In a written statement following the decision, Sanford said: "While I've acknowledged repeatedly my own ...
In Line to See Jenny Sanford: Wronged Wives, Straying Hubby
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- Jenny Sanford, the first lady of South Carolina for now, returned to the capital city on Friday night to sign copies of her book "Staying True." Who would brave an uncharacteristic South Carolina snowstorm for a one-on-one encounter? Someone in the same "personal situation," it turns out. Tarnisha Gibson, a 36-year-old military wife, said that Sanford is "trying to find her independence" after a marriage shaken by infidelity – and so is she. Gibson said of Sanford: "I'm getting advice from her and she doesn't even know it." She and hubby "are working it out" after he ...
Out of all the Extramarital Scandals, Public Feels Most Sorry for Elizabeth Edwards
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter all the recent scandals about extramarital affairs involving John Edwards, Mark Sanford and Tiger Woods, Fox News asked in its latest poll which wife Americans felt most sorry for, and the answer was overwhelmingly for Elizabeth Edwards. Forty-nine percent sympathized with Elizabeth Edwards the most, while 10 percent named Elin Nordegren, Wood's wife, and 5 percent sided with Jenny Sanford. John Edwards, as everyone knows by now, had an extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and fathered a child with her while his wife was battling cancer; and, Woods had a series of encounters with ...
The Power of the Prayer Breakfast
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIf there is one place on the planet where the philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark "Argentine Soulmate" Sanford, can go knowing he'll be accepted, if not altogether forgiven for grievous sins of arrogance and lust, it is the National Prayer Breakfast. So along with 3,000 other people -- including Heisman-trophy winner Tim Tebow, who stars with his mother in an anti-abortion ad to air during the Super Bowl, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who delivered his message in Spanish, and former CBS newsman Dan Rather, who said he was doing the same there as I was, which I guess ...
Details From Jenny Sanford's Book Emerge
By not in system - AOL NewsCHARLESTON, S.C. (Feb. 2) -- South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes in her new book that she got short of breath and later felt unwanted and ugly when she found out about her husband's affair with an Argentine woman. The New York Daily News reported on its Web site Monday that Sanford also writes that one of her sons exclaimed that it's "worse than Eliot Spitzer" when she told them about Gov. Mark Sanford's infidelity. Spitzer is the former New York governor who resigned after acknowledging he was a client of a call-girl ring. ...
Gov. Mark Sanford Chatting Up Congressmen on House Floor
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyRepublican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday talking to GOP congressmen. As a former member of Congress, Sanford is allowed to visit the chamber at will. Among others, Sanford chatted with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.). Sanford has not been seen publicly in Washington, D.C., since the news broke last summer that he lied about his whereabouts to his staff while taking a secret trip to Argentina to meet his lover, Maria Belen Chapur. Sanford's estranged wife, Jenny Sanford, has written a book about her marriage which ...
Gov. Mark Sanford Apologizes One More Time
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIn his eighth and final State of the State address, Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina offered what he said would be his last apology for his affair. "After this speech, those of you who have grown weary of my apologizing, rest easy, because I won't do it again," Sanford said in his Wednesday speech. "I am compelled to say that I'm sorry, one more time, for the situation I created." Sanford thanked his wife, Jenny, who has filed for divorce, for "her truly phenomenal grace that she showed the world and the state in the storm that I brought to our family and the state at large." He used ...
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