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Ex-SC Gov. Mark Sanford, Argentine Lover Hit Uruguay Resort
By not in system - AOL NewsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras," or Faces, published an eight-page spread on Sanford's romantic encounter last week with Maria Belen Chapur, at Punta del Este, Uruguay, a gathering spot for the rich and famous, celebrities and wanna-bes. Paparazzi photos taken from a distance clearly show the couple enjoying themselves - walking hand-in-hand, digging out a ...
Mark Sanford's Final South Carolina Road Trip as Governor
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySUMTER, S.C. -- Working the room like he was running for office instead of leaving it, Mark Sanford stopped by Sumter Cut Rate Drugs and Soda Fountain for an hour on Friday. It was one of the last stops on his final road trip as South Carolina governor; this time he let the people of the state know exactly where he was going. Among a mostly friendly group of about two dozen, who asked for autographs and posed with him for pictures, Sanford, 50, seemed relaxed and ready to relinquish the governor's office to his one-time protégé, Nikki Haley. He shed his casual jacket, shook every hand and ...
The Top Five Scandal, Divorce or Remorse Stories, From Abramoff to Sanford
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyPrison. Scandal. Adultery. Delusion. Death. Divorce. Remorse. And always, reinvention. It's been quite the year for denizens of the Republic of Dish, including a quintet of individuals or couples seemingly poised for next acts in 2011. Washington uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is writing a book about influence peddling, a subject he knows intimately. He left prison in June after serving 42 months for corruption and fraud, did another six months of work-release at a Kosher pizzeria in Baltimore, and is now on probation. Abramoff, who lives outside Washington, is not using a ghostwriter, a ...
Wronged Wife of Chilean Miner Out-Classes Jenny Sanford
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyMarta Salinas, the Chilean miner's wife who stayed home to watch her husband Yonni Barrios' miraculous rescue on TV (so he could greet his mistress), out-classed Jenny Sanford in the cheated-on-wife category. Senora Salinas' husband was the 21st in the line of men who one by one came up a straw tube Wednesday to a very different world than the one they tunneled away from last August. Television crews, book agents, long lost family members and a watching world were there to greet them. Their extraordinary grace after spending more than two months trapped half a mile underground (the first 17 ...
Where Is Mark Sanford? The S.C. Governor's Latest MIA Escape
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailySouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's personal follies continue to enliven the state's politics. Nearly a year to the day when Sanford went missing and "hiking on the Appalachian trail" entered the public lexicon as a euphemism for having an affair (he was off with his Latin American mistress), Sanford went missing again. "Monday, Sanford's spokesman Ben Fox told 'The State' Sanford is on 'personal time' but declined to say where the governor is," reported The State newspaper, which covers South Carolina's capital. Sanford re-surfaced on Tuesday -- and caused another stir. He showed up at a ...
South Carolina's Nikki Haley Fights Second Adultery Accusation
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyA state that's slowly getting past the Argentine escapades of soon-to-be-former Gov. Mark Sanford is now preoccupied with charges of adultery and denials involving a Republican candidate to replace him. What is it about South Carolina? In her latest TV ad, GOP state Rep. and gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley says she's "seen the dark side of our state's politics," before emphasizing her vision for South Carolina, which includes strong schools, a growing economy and a "conservative government that's accountable." She is shown walking hand-in-hand on the beach with husband, Michael, with their ...
Jenny Sanford Tells Dr. Phil Her Next Love Will 'Love Me Back'
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyJenny Sanford wants us to know she's doing fine after divorcing her cheating hubby, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, and that she might trust a man enough to fall in love again. "I just have to make sure I pick someone who maybe loves me back," she tells Dr. Phil, the TV therapist, in a show airing Thursday. Actually, the former first lady has already found a new beau, and went very public with him in Washington on May 1. Meanwhile, her ex spent the May 8 weekend in the Florida Keys with his "Argentine Soulmate" mistress, reports the Associated Press. It was that affair, including Mark ...
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 ...
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. ...
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