Timeline: How Did Sanford’s Bogus Story Evolve?

Gov. Sanford’s (R-SC) staff, wife and even Sanford himself apparently ran through a series of evolving and often completely contradictory explanations about where he was and what he was doing. First, he wasn’t missing, then he was taking some time away from the kids to do something writing (yeah, that one was a doozy), then he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, then his staff was in touch with him and then he weren’t, now he was in Argentina. And those are only the big developments. We’ve put together an official TPM Gov. Sanford Bogus Story Timeline giving you the step by step guide to Sanford’s staffs valiant but ultimately vain efforts to come up with a cover story that would hold up for more than a few hours.