Gov. Sanford’s staff claims that he called them this morning and told them he’d be back at work tomorrow. But his wife just told reporters that she has still not heard anything from him since last Thursday. “I am being a mom today. I have not heard from my husband. I am taking care of my children.”
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) seems to think he may be running for president in 2012.
I just stopped by our TPM page on Facebook. And Andrew Golis just posted that today apparently TPM (i.e., this front page blog — not Muckraker or DC) just posted its 25,000th post. Apparently an average of about 8 posts per day for eight and a half years. Sheesh. That’s a lot of posts.
TPM Reader DF salutes an innovator …
I’ve been thinking about it, and I believe Sanford may be the first politician to use the “I’m leaving to spend some time AWAY FROM my family” excuse. Most of them go with the far less credible with-the-family thing. So give the man his due, please, for he is a pioneer.
Our Ben Craw captures the tone and tenor of President Obama’s press conference this afternoon in this highlight reel. As I said before, it gets a bit testy at times.
How much do national Republicans want to keep blocking Al Franken from being sworn in as the senate’s 60th Democratic senator?
The national GOP has pumped almost $1 million into Norm Coleman’s ‘campaign’ in just the last month.
Local TV station in South Carolina reports that a federal agent spotted Gov. Sanford boarding a plane in Atlanta, and though the report is not clear on when the sighting occurred, the implication is it was about the time Sanford went missing last week. The station also reports that a missing state vehicle, presumably the one the governor was using, was “tracked down” at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. WYFF is the NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C.
Zack Roth has more.
Could ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’ become a new metaphor in politics?