Last week, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina vanished. He was not, as his staff had been instructed to report, hiking the Appalachian Trail. Instead, he was in Argentina, exploring some South American peaks and valleys, belonging to his mistress.
Sanford’s extramarital affair had been ongoing for nearly a year, and his mysterious disappearance last week has now raised questions about an official trip he took last summer to Argentina and Brazil, funded by South Carolina taxpayers. While maintaining the trip’s legitimacy despite an itinerary which included a two-day “bird hunt” in Argentina, evenings “on his own” and finally, my favorite, an entire day booked off from official duty to go on a “self-guided tour,” Sanford has now said he will reimburse the state, and released this statement: “I made a mistake while I was there in meeting with the woman who I was unfaithful to my wife with.” At the same time the press came out with a number of leaked personal e-mails, including this one from Sanford’s mistress: “Last Friday I would had stayed embrassing and kissing you forever.”
One thing I can tell you is that these two share more than an illicit passion; they also have a mutual inability to express themselves in English.
There’s a minister in my country’s parliament brought his entire family along, including several friends of his on a trip to Disneyland in Paris and Orlando. He spent an estimate amount of $450,000 of tax payer’s money.
When confronted, he said it was for reserch to build theme parks back home. And he didn’t even reimburse the money.
Reblogged from Lolliblog.
July 02, 2009, 9:34pm
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