Jenny Sanford has no intention to endorse anyone in the special election scheduled to be held next month in South Carolina’s First Congressional District.
Sanford’s ex-husband, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R), is the Republican nominee in the contest, but she told Roll Call in an email that she doesn’t fell compelled to weigh in on the race.
“I don’t have any thoughts on the race that I am currently interested in sharing with the public and I have no plans to endorse,” she said in the email. “I remain completely focused on the four wonderful men in my life and happily so.”
Their marriage commanded national coverage in 2009, when Mark Sanford vanished from the state and his staff infamously claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was actually in Argentina visiting his then-mistress, María Belén Chapur, with whom he is now engaged. Mark Sanford is squaring off with Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the special election, scheduled to be held on May 7.
