House Democrats’ campaign arm ripped Republicans Thursday for pulling support from scandal-tinted former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford – despite having seen a parade of their own members flame out over high-profile controversies.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford‘s political comeback already hinged on persuading conservative voters in the state’s Lowcountry to forgive him for past infidelity and political mistakes. Now he’ll have to do it with his ex-wife accusing him of repeatedly trespassing in her home.
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By John Johnson It just keeps getting worse for Mark Sanford. In the wake of the bizarre revelation that his ex-wife has accused him of trespassing , the National Republican Congressional Council has pulled its support for his congressional campaign, reports the Hill . The move comes less than a month before the special election…
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A lawyer say ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford trespassed at his ex-wife’s home and he has been ordered to appear in court two days after his special congressional election.
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By Harriet McLeod
CHARLESTON, S.C., April 4 (Reuters) – Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch kicked off her general election campaign for South Carolina’s open congressional seat on Thursday, her sights set on beating former Governor Mark Sanford after he clinched the Republican nomination this week.
Colbert Busch, the sister of television comedian and political satirist Stephen Colbert, handily won last month’s Democratic primary. But she kept a low profile as 16 Republicans battled for a spot in the special election on May 7.
Sanford, 52, prevailed despite a 2009 scandal that had seemingly doomed his political career. As governor, he tried to hide an extramarital affair with an Argentine woman by falsely telling aides he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
In an interview with WTMA radio after his primary runoff win on Tuesday, Sanford said his Democratic opponent for the seat he held for three terms before becoming governor was undefined on the issues.
“Right now in essence, we’re running against Stephen Colbert. It’s going to be tough running against a comedian who is well liked and has ties to the Lowcountry, but ultimately issues define a race,” said Sanford, referring to the coastal region in South Carolina where the race is taking place.
Sanford’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Colbert Busch, 58, hit back with a statement detailing her work history, which included serving as director of sales and marketing for the Orient Overseas Container Line shipping company.
She is now on leave as business development director for the Clemson University Restoration Institute in North Charleston to make her first run for office.
“I was disappointed to hear about Mark’s comment,” she said. “He has known me and my work for years…If those successes can’t convince Mark that a woman is capable of leading, I don’t know what will.”
Stephen Colbert weighed in on the race Wednesday night on his Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report.” …read more
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Well, this can’t feel great: The Democrat who opposed Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the primary for a vacant congressional seat has endorsed her Republican opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Ben Frasier got only 4% of the vote last month against Colbert Busch, the sister of political satirist Stephen… …read more
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As marriage equality has emerged as one of the Beltway’s topics du jour, inquiries as to when lawmakers intend to “evolve” on the issue have been in abundance. But whither former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford?
Sanford, famously, has made his feelings about traditional marriage quite clear. As his history of mistress-having and telling-constituents-lies-about-the-mistress-having demonstrates, he’s clearly not too terribly impressed with the “sanctity” of the institution. “This was a whole lot more than a simple affair,” said Sanford in June 2009. “This was a love story. A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”
So, newly minted as his party’s nominee for the South Carolina 1st Congressional District seat in the House of Representatives, Sanford made an appearance this afternoon on CNN‘s new show “The Lead,” and host Jake Tapper threw the high, hard stuff at him on marriage equality: “Who are you to deny love between two men or two women, when you are somebody who talks about following his heart, regardless of the laws and traditions of the state of South Carolina? Why are you sitting in judgment of same-sex couples, when you have had the life you have had?”
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By Ruth Brown Remember Pork and Barrel, the two piglets Mark Sanford brought to the South Carolina statehouse to protest pork barrel spending in 2004? Well, “unfortunately, they were barbecued,” he told the groaning hosts at MSNBC’s Morning Joe today when asked about the pigs’ whereabouts, as picked up by Talking Points Memo… …read more
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By Matt Cantor Yesterday, Politico was calling Elizabeth Colbert Busch the underdog in South Carolina‘s special congressional election; today, the site seems to have changed its tune . It’s reporting that Republicans are concerned Mark Sanford‘s candidacy could cost them a safe seat in a district Mitt Romney took by 18 points. Other Republicans… …read more
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By John Johnson Well, this could be fun. Mark Sanford has easily won the Republican runoff for a congressional seat in South Carolina, reports AP . Which means, of course, that the former governor and congressman will face Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of Stephen Colbert, in the general election five weeks from now. Sanford… …read more
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday cleared another hurdle in his bid for a political comeback, defeating a former county council member to win the GOP nomination for a vacant U.S. House seat.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday cleared another hurdle in his bid for political redemption, defeating a former Charleston County council member to win the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat he held for three terms.
“It’s been a very long journey. And in that journey I am humbled to find ourselves where we find ourselves tonight,” said Sanford, whose political career was derailed four years ago when, as sitting governor, he disappeared from the state only to return to acknowledge an affair with an Argentine woman.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford‘s name is on the ballot again as he tries to mount a political comeback.
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By Harriet McLeod
CHARLESTON, S.C., April 2 (Reuters) – Voters in South Carolina’s coastal first congressional district will choose on Tuesday between former Governor Mark Sanford and former Charleston County Council member Curtis Bostic as the Republican nominee for the open seat.
Sanford gained national notoriety as the state’s governor in 2009 when he left South Carolina for six days, telling aides he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was in fact visiting his mistress in Argentina.
Despite that history, the 52-year-old candidate was the top Republican in an earlier round of voting and held the lead in a recent poll.
His challenger, 49-year-old Bostic, has at times tried to make Sanford’s lapse an issue in the race, calling his rival “a compromised candidate” during a debate in Charleston on Thursday.
Sanford had the support of 53 percent of likely voters in the Republican primary, to 40 percent who supported Bostic, in a tally released last week by Public Policy Polling.
Both men have touted their fiscal conservatism and said they oppose same-sex marriage.
After the news of Sanford’s affair broke, his wife divorced him, he paid more than $70,000 in ethics fines and he was censured by the legislature, though he served out the remainder of his term as governor. He is now engaged to the woman, Argentine journalist Maria Belen Chapur.
Sanford chided Bostic, an attorney and former Marine, for missing a number of meetings when he served on the Charleston County Council. Bostic said his wife had undergone treatment for cancer and that he missed meetings to take care of her.
Sanford’s campaign touted that the National Review had called him “the taxpayers’ choice,” while Bostic said he was supported by former 1st District Congressman Henry Brown.
Republican Senator Tim Scott, who vacated the seat when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate, has not endorsed a candidate. …read more
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Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch is running just ahead of Republican former governor Mark Sanford in the race to represent South Carolina’s 1st District in Congress, according to an internal poll taken for the Colbert Busch campaign.
The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners, finds Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, leading Sanford within the margin of error, 47 percent to 44 percent.
She had a larger, 9-point lead against Curtis Bostic, another possible Republican rival.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man running against former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford in a GOP runoff for an open congressional seat says Sanford is a compromised candidate who would offer Democrats a chance to win the May 7 special election.
Former Charleston County Council member Curtis Bostic said during a televised debate Thursday night that “a compromised candidate is not what we need” in the race against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Bush, the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford advanced Tuesday to a runoff in the Republican contest for an open congressional seat along the state’s southern coast, a major step in his bid for a political comeback.
In early returns on Tuesday evening, it was unclear who Sanford would face in the April 2 GOP runoff. Fifteen other Republicans were running, including Teddy Turner, the son of media mogul Ted Turner.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford advanced Tuesday to a runoff in the Republican contest for an open congressional seat along the state’s southern coast, a major step in his bid for a political comeback.
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By BRUCE SMITH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford‘s hopes for a political comeback are now in the hands of coastal South Carolina voters.
Sanford is one of 16 Republicans vying in Tuesday’s special GOP primary in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford‘s hopes for a political comeback are now in the hands of coastal South Carolina voters.
