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By: Jim Davenport
Source: AP
UPDATE:
South Carolina Governor, Mark Sanford, who went missing for several days and who returned from exotic Buenos Aires Wednesday, admitted to having an affair with a “dear friend” from Argentina.
According to Sanford, “It began very innocently, as I suspect many of these things do, in just a casual e-mail back and forth,” he said.
“But here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that. And as a consequence, I hurt her. I hurt you all. I hurt my wife. I hurt my boys. I hurt friends … I hurt a lot of different folks.”
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was in South America during several days of an unexplained absence, not hiking the Appalachian Trail as his staff told the public when state leaders raised questions about his whereabouts, the governor told a newspaper.
The State reported that Sanford arrived Wednesday morning at Atlanta’s Hartsville-Jackson International Airport on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Republican told the South Carolina newspaper he decided at the last minute to go to the South American country. The governor says he had considered hiking on the Appalachian Trail but wanted to do something “exotic.”
Sanford was last seen at work Thursday. On Monday, a state legislator raised questions about where he was after hearing reports from security officials that the governor could not be contacted and his whereabouts were unknown. The governor’s wife, Jenny Sanford, told The Associated Press she had not seen him since Thursday but was not concerned because he’d told her he wanted to get away and do some writing.
Report: SC Gov Was In Argentina, Not Hiking Trail
