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CNN reports that the state security Chevy Suburban that Gov. Mark Sanford drove off in last Thursday has turned up. At the airport. But not Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, where Sanford had reportedly been seen. They found it at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, the airport in the state capital.
Sanford resurfaces with a new story. He was in Argentina.
Now at least it seems clear he’s actually surfaced, not just ‘surfaced’ in the sense of his staff snowing reporters into saying he returned. A reporter from The State newspaper actually got a few moments with him before Sanford was “escorted away by an aide” at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
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TPM Reader BA, commenting on our feature photo to the right there:
The picture of Argentina misrepresents the time of year.
Remember it is winter there – today’s high is only 51 degrees!
We’ll try to find a more seasonally appropriate picture to signify the governor’s wintertime jaunt in the Southern Hemisphere.
Just so we’re clear, Gov. Sanford and his staff didn’t announce that he had been in Argentina for the week. A reporter from The State newspaper got a tip that Sanford would be arriving on a flight into Atlanta this morning from Argentina and basically caught him. Once the reporter saw him coming off a plane from the antipodes he really didn’t have much choice but to admit where he’d been.
Fox just did a live interview with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and not a single question for the senator about his AWOL governor.
“I wanted to do something exotic.”
Quote from Gov. Mark Sanford when asked why he’d been in Argentina after being caught by a reporter from The State getting off a plane from Buenos Aires.
Mark Sanford’s wife must be relieved to know where her husband is now — probably not so happy to learn he was out of the country for a week without telling her.