If you can believe it, this story just gets more and more strange. Breaking from Politico this morning:A mystery has turned into a fiasco for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who now says he was in South America — not on the Appalachian Trail, as his staff had said on the record in official statements when his whereabouts became the subject of global news coverage.
I have a sinking feeling that this is going to get far worse for Governor Sanford before it gets better...
“I don’t know how this thing got blown out of proportion,” the governor told The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., after he landed at the Atlanta airport Wednesday morning.
Sanford, a conservative Republican who had a promising future in national politics, is now not only the butt of jokes but has serious questions to answer about his stewardship of his state’s safety.
Other state officials say he made no arrangements for executive decisions in his absence, such as mobilizing the National Guard in case of catastrophe or advocating for the state with Washington if an emergency struck the coast.
Journalists covering the story had nearly universal doubts about the narrative put out by his office. The trail on the governor went cold at the Atlanta airport, which is not a logical place to go to start hiking the Appalachian Trail.
The State said in a story posted around 8:30 a.m. that Sanford had arrived Wednesday morning at Atlanta’s Hartsville-Jackson International Airport after what he says was a seven-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Oh, and given all of the headlines surrounding Governor Sanford's, err... geographical status, you'd think the geniuses in the PR department of the RNC would avoid sending out mass e-mails and op-eds to attack a Democratic governor by saying 'Where Did Gov. Kaine Go?'
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I'm almost relived he was in South America instead of on the Application trail during the annual "Naked Hike Day".
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