• Resign? Pssh, whatever! Mark Sanford was back to work on Friday, apologizing to his cabinet (and his Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer) for his transgressions and recommitting to the job he was elected to do: Be governor of South Carolina. Sanford has Bauer’s full support, by the way.
• Calling him out Sanford will spend the next 18 months fending off comments like this one from State Rep. J. Todd Rutherford (D): “It is a problem when the CEO of a 4.5 million-person organization goes AWOL and nobody can reach him. It was a gross dereliction of duty.”
• Oh, I’ll pay for thatHe did have one ethics-bending mix of business and pleasure: He went on a business trip to Argentina last year, and e-mails show that he met with his mistress during the trip. He’s agreed to pay $9,000 for the trip, even though he actually did work. source

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