South Carolina on Wednesday July 01, 2009

SC: SC gov gambles to 'lay it all out' about affair
By Tamara Lush and Brett J. Blackledge, The Associated Press, The State (Columbia)
After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford detailed other encounters with his Argentine "soul mate," dalliances with women before her, and his struggle to salvage his 20-year marriage.
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SC: New sex revelations fuel calls for resignation
By Roddie Burris, Clif LeBlanc and Gina Smith, The State (Columbia)
Six of 27 members of the conservative Senate Republican Caucus Tuesday night issued a letter calling on Gov. Mark Sanford to resign.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)

California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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SC: Man who would succeed Sanford has own baggage
By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post
With every word South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) utters about his extramarital affair, his would-be successor leaps closer to a job that he wants dearly but that many leaders in the state's fractured Republican Party have been scheming to keep from him.
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SC: State's Labor Dept. checking for illegal immigrants
By The Associated Press, The Post and Courier (Charleston)
Major businesses in South Carolina are being audited by the state's labor agency to determine if they are hiring illegal immigrants.
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SC: Criminal probe darkens Sanford's political prospects
By Patrick Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor
Just as South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford seemed to turn the corner on surviving a scandal that threatened to unseat him, an official criminal investigation will probe whether the governor broke any state laws while conducting a transnational tryst with an Argentinian mom and former TV reporter.
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SC: SLED chief sees no evidence of crime
By Clif LeBlanc, The State (Columbia)
SLED director Reggie Lloyd said Tuesday he is worried his criminal investigative agency is being pulled into a new realm — political inquiries.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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US: Some hard-hit states get less stimulus
By Louise Radnofsky, The Wall Street Journal
Some of the states worst hit by the recession are getting far less federal economic-stimulus money per person than states faring better.
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