Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) acknowledged the impact of his recent scandals today in an interview with a local radio station. “I am dead politically,” he told WVOC in Columbia. “I am not running for another office.”
Earlier this summer, Sanford admitted to an affair with an Argentinian woman after he went missing for several days. More recently, he has come under fire after an AP investigation found that the governor has used state aircraft multiple times for personal and family trips.
Sanford also commented on last week’s news that wife Jenny and their four children moved out of the governor’s mansion. “That part’s hard,” he said. “That’s probably the most bitter part of it. But there are consequences for any mess-up that we have in life, and that’s one of them.” The decision for Jenny and the four Sanford boys to move to Charleston apparently had to do with both the beginning of the school year and also because “they deserve to be out of the fishbowl they’ve been in.”
“I fell in love with one woman I should not have fallen in love with,” he continued. “We all get that. Everybody’s been trying to move on.”
