A reader checks in from up on the Hill …
This is really weird stuff. I mean, mind-boggling kind of weird…….
Taking at face value what Sanford’s staff is claiming, he abandoned his security detail to hiking on the AT for DAYS – and that’s okay?
That’s insanity. There’s no other word for it.
What happened if Sanford got lost? Or hurt himself? Or needed emergency medical treatment, which happens on the AT all the time?
What would the Gov’s office tell the press and people of SC??
How on Earth does the head of his security detail knowingly let Sanford “go alone for days” without making a big stinking deal about it?
I sure as hell would……
And, again, that’s taking everything Sanford says at face value.
Assume, for just a moment, some dark ulterior motive – the SC Gubernatorial security detail is so passive and inept, that it routinely lets the Gov go wandering off on his own??
I remember Sanford when he was a House GOPer, and he was a bit of an odd duck then, And, he’s certainly been an odd duck of a Governor.
But, this is so far beyond the pale it’s breath-taking to ponder…….
As noted before, the governor’s office says he checked in by phone this morning and that he plans on coming back to work tomorrow — roughly a week after he left. It was good timing that he checked in since over the last 12 hours or so the story has generated a media firestorm. We are, to be candid, still rather skeptical of this story — whether there was a call, just where Sanford’s been, etc. But presumably we’ll know more soon.
