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Missing Republican Governor resigns over secret international affair
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(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Republican Gov. Mark Sanford has admitted disappearing from his job to pursue an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina during a press conference Wednesday in South Carolina. Sanford apologized to his wife and four sons and will resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
News sources suggest that Sanford drove to Atlanta in a South Carolina state SUV. This after fighting to deny unemployment stimilus money for the state that was eventually overturned. The real question for Sanford is did state funds pay for his trip to Argentina?
Missing since last Thursday, Sanford had told his staff he was hiking in the Appalachian Mountains. The State newspaper in South Carolina says Sanford appeared in the Atlanta airport on Wednesday morning. The media jumped on the story several days ago reporting the potential 2012 Republican candidate as missing in action. In a brief interview with The State, Sanford said that “in fairness to his staff,” he had told them he might go hiking on the Appalachian Trail. He was actually in Buenos Aires. "I let them down by creating a fiction with regard to where I was going," Sanford said. "I said that was the original possibility. Again, this is my fault in ... shrouding this larger trip."
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