Mark Sanford, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, went AWOL this week, allegedly “clearing his mind” with some hiking on the Appalachian Trail.
Neither his wife, nor his four kids, nor his staff members, knew were he was.
This made no sense.
Then the enterprising State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., cracked the case of Sanford’s whereabouts by staking out the Atlanta airport, where one of the paper’s reporters confronted the absent governor upon his return to the United States.
From Argentina. Where he “went missing” for five days because he was not-so-secretly cheating on his wife, continuing an affair he started about a year ago.
Now that makes a lot more sense!
“I wanted to do something exotic,” he said, regarding misleading his staff with the hiking ruse, adding that he decided to head to South America instead at the last-minute to “recharge” after a grueling legislative battle.

Mark Sanford told the State newspaper he’s done this [...]

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