South Carolina on Monday June 29, 2009

SC: How Mark Sanford's affair blew up
By Roddie Burris, Leroy Chapman, Jr., Clif LeBlanc, John O'Connor and Gina Smith, The State (Columbia)
Five things brought down S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.
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SC: Sanford resolves to stay put despite scandal
By Tamara Lush, The Associated Press, The Post and Courier (Charleston)
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. - Gov. Mark Sanford says he's not quitting — even though he considered it — despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his admitted affair with a woman from Argentina.
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Tracking the recession: Budget deadline looms
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Unlike the federal government, states have to balance their budgets. But several states still have not completed spending plans for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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SC: Some GOP lawmakers await Sanford resignation
By Gina Smith, The State (Columbia)
Some Republican state lawmakers are privately saying they want Republican Gov. Mark Sanford to step down — of his own volition — this week.
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SC: South Carolina politics looks past affair to its effects on governor race
By Shaila Dewan and Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times
The future of Gov. Mark Sanford's political career after his secret trip to Argentina and admission of an extramarital affair may now depend on something more complicated than even the human heart: the wild and woolly politics of South Carolina.
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SC: First lady -- Sanford sought permission to visit lover
By Bruce Smith, The Associated Press, The State (Columbia)
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. — South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said Friday her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair.
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SC: Woman in Sanford affair confirms relationship
By Eduardo Gallardo, The Associated Press, The State (Columbia)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- South Carolina's wandering governor didn't give away her name when he confessed to having an affair with an Argentine woman, but Maria Belen Chapur has finally stepped forward.
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SC: Romney, other Republicans criticize Sanford affair
By Douglass K. Daniel, The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON -- A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image.
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SC: If America forgave Clinton, why not Sanford? senator asks
By Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor
A clearly emotional Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina Sunday invoked former President Clinton as a defense for why embattled Gov. Mark Sanford, also of South Carolina, should potentially be allowed to finish his term.
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SC: Woman linked to Sanford comments on e-mail
By Alexei Barrionuevo, The New York Times
BUENOS AIRES — The Argentine woman linked to Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said Sunday that she had a "firm suspicion" of who broke into one of her e-mail accounts that discussed her relationship with the governor, but she declined to name the person.
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SC: In S.C., governor's wife is 'the hero in this story'
By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. -- This is the place where the betrayed wife took her stand. As her husband's affair with an Argentine woman exploded onto the global stage and publicly humiliated her family, Jenny Sanford, 46, and their four sons sought refuge here at their large beachfront cottage on this lush island enclave outside Charleston.
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SC: Sanford's bigger sin -- going AWOL
By Louis Jacobson, National Journal
Forget South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's acknowledged sexual indiscretions. How bad was it that he went AWOL from his gubernatorial duties? Many state officials, in South Carolina and elsewhere, interviewed Thursday said that Sanford's lapse was bad indeed -- but they also recommended against holding out for a rash of new laws to curb gubernatorial flights of fancy.
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SC: A political wife's tough stance strikes a chord
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
When Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina gave what has become a ritualistically familiar part of American politics — the news conference on marital infidelity — there was no dutiful political wife to share the spotlight and, by her very presence, imply forgiveness.
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US: National sex offender registry delayed a year
By The Associated Press, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has given states and American Indian tribes another year to feed a national Internet database set up to protect children by showing where possible predators live and work.
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MN: Pawlenty wants to rebuild GOP after scandals
By Douglass K. Daniel, The Associated Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON -- A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image.
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