Chapter . Gov. Sanford’s Affair
When South Carolina’s sanctimonious Republican Governor Mark Sanford turned up after going missing for seven days; he said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail to clear his head. It wasn’t too long before the truth came out, in lurid emails published in the local newspaper; Governor Sanford was having an affair—in Argentina. In a tearful news conference, Sanford resigned as chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association and wiped away any Presidential hopes for 2012. Cartoonists, for their part, were hardly tearful and the juicy details of Sanford’s affair with his Latina soulmate were great cartoon fodder.
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