Scandal: Year-long affair How Outed: Press Conference
The Sanford saga began with a disappearing act. The South Carolina governor apparently left home in a black SUV on June 18 and stopped picking up his cell phone or responding to text messages and emails. He was AWOL for the better part of a week. The explanations piled up: the rising GOP star was "writing something," said his wife; he was recharging after losing a fight to refuse stimulus money, said his spokesman; he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, said his staff. When a reporter cornered Sanford in the Atlanta airport June 24, however, the governor revealed that he'd been in Buenos Aires. With South Carolina's capital buzzing with talk of impeachment, Sanford, 49, held a press conference to explain himself: he'd gone to visit an Argentinean woman with whom he'd been having an affair. Apologizing to his wife and four sons and choking up repeatedly, Sanford said he'd spent "the last five days of my life crying in Argentina," and had now ended the year-long dalliance. Sanford, a rumored 2012 presidential hopeful, said he will resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
(All that just to break up with the woman? - ridiculous)
He had the audacity to ask his wife to travel to Buenos Aires, when Jennifer Sanford said "I said absolutely not. It's one thing to forgive adultery; it's another thing to condone it."
ReplyDeleteThen, he told her he was going to the Appalachians to write!
And honestly, Jenny Sanford still doesn't know if he has ended the affair.
"I guess that's what we will have to see. I believe he has," she said. "But he was down there for five days."
(DONT TAKE THAT SHIT - YOU GO GIRL)
ReplyDelete"A New Breed of Political Wife Shows Poise and Courage in the Wake of Scandal"
After her husband Gov. Mark Sanford publicly confessed to having an affair, Jenny Sanford refused to play the role of scorned wife or loyal martyr. Recently, more politicians’ wives who have endured similar humiliation are stepping outside the traditional wallflower model.
Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary Clinton have all endured betrayals by their politician husbands, but instead of withdrawing to tend to their wounds, each one has stepped forward in her own way. Newsweek writer Kathleen Deveny commends this “new breed of political wife.” She writes, “All of them managed to take lemons, make lemonade, and add a shot of vodka.”
Jenny Sanford, the first lady of South Carolina and investment banker-turned-stay-at-home mother, appears to be the leading the pack. The Washington Post called her “a new role model for wronged spouses,” reported Vogue. And others substantiate these claims. “I think most women in her position would still be under the covers,” her friend Frannie Reese told Vogue. “Jenny wants to go bicycling.”
Politicians’ Wives Take a Stand
According to Newsweek, she was absent as her husband delivered a by now familiar apology to the cameras. And in early August, she packed up and left the governor’s mansion. “From there, we will work to continue the process of healing our family,” she told The Associated Press.
After her husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, incited a media circus with the revelation of his affair, Elizabeth Edwards also chose not to shrink from the public eye.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/politics/2009/august/A-New-Breed-of-Political-Wife-Shows-Poise-and-Courage-in-the-Wake-of-Scandal.html