fivethirtyeight.com - 7/1/2009
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There is significant pressure on South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to resign office and slink away. He's not helping the national Republican brand, nor the South Carolina Republican Party. My view is he shouldn't resign. Why? Let's start with the puzzled, even cryptic, views of the people who ...
thestate.com - 7/1/2009
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thestate.com —
Six of 27 members of the conservative Senate
Republican Caucus Tuesday night issued a letter calling on...
Gov. Mark Sanford to resign. Two additional senators considered among Sanford’s staunchest allies, also said they want him to resign though ...
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New sex revelations fuel calls for resignation
news.yahoo.com - 6/30/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said
Tuesday that he "crossed lines" with a handful of...
women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. The governor said he "never crossed the ultimate line" with anyone but Maria Belen ...
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AP Newsbreak: SC gov 'crossed lines' with women - Yahoo! ...
kdka.com - 6/30/2009
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kdka.com —
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine
mistress his "soul mate" Tuesday, but said that he...
would try to fall back in love with his wife. Sanford also admitted that he saw his mistress more times than previously disclosed, including what ...
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Sanford Calls Mistress His 'Soul Mate'
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Should Mark Sanford resign?
The Monkey Cage —
Tom Schaller says no:
Is Sanford a cad for bolting his family on Father’s Day weekend? Of course, but that is a private, moral failing, rather than a failure of public duty. . . .
I [Schaller] oppose most of what Mr. Sanford stands for politically. His showy rejection of federal stimulus money targeted for his state was a crass publicity stunt designed to garner national attention for Mr. Sanford at the expense of his constituents, many of whom are struggling economically. . . . Should Mr. Sanford’s ambitions founder on the shoals of a ...
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Paper calls on Sanford to resign
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 6/25/2009 — A South Carolina paper is calling on Sanford to resign.
(CNN) — A day after Mark Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair, one South Carolina newspaper is calling on the state's governor to resign.
"Mark Sanford cannot navigate a deep and ...
Sanford Shouldn't Resign
thenextright.com 6/25/2009 — That title is provocative, and deliberately so. I'd like to play Devil's Advocate and argue that blindly going along with the Dump Sanford crowd could seriously damage Republican elected officials' ability to weather future, hopefully less serious ...
The Missing Governor: A Timeline
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/24/2009 — We thought it might be useful to put together a timeline of events in the Missing Governor story:
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Mark Sanford: Cheating SC Gov Says God Will Make Him Better
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the-reaction.blogspot.com 6/25/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings "Mark Sanford is no longer missing, but he's obviously lost." So writes Slate 's John Dickerson to open an article on the Mark Sanford saga that, in light of what we learned yesterday, adds some much-needed humanity, ...
Why Sanford Needs To Go
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Sanford corrects the record -- again —
First Read 6/30/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayWell, it looks like South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) wasn't telling the whole truth at that press conference where he revealed his affair with an Argentine woman.
In an interview with the AP, Sanford
disclosed that met ...
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