Since the announcement of governor Sanford skipping town for five days, to continue his affair with an Argentine lady became public in June. He is now possibly facing 37 ethics charges for acts such as; using first and business class tickets for personal pleasures, reimbursing himself $3,000 of campaign money to attend Republican governors meetings in Miami and hunting trips in Ireland. The Register Guard (Eugene, OR paper) stated that these ethics violations will be pivotal in a push by some lawmakers to remove him from office.
My thoughts are, is he under all this scrutiny because our evolving media has been able to retrace his every move since coming into office and look at every possible mistake he’s made. And at that particular time in June he was the biggest scandal to hit nation wide news so he stayed in the spotlight for a while. Now that I flipped through the paper, I find this news about 37 ethics charges on page 3 in a corner, not so important anymore. We can’t forget the reasons he was caught in the first place….off gallivanting to south American countries to have an affair, when he was suppose to be hiking some mountain. Since we are all aware that he isn’t the first to utilize tax payers money for personal trips even if one was for a special hair cut. We have had presidents fall into this category, but did they face the same bashing that Republican Sanford has/is. Just some thoughts in regards to our current media abilities.
In the mean time his wife has taken her place in the limelight, endorsing a female Native American Republican governor, as well as publicizing her autobiography, which will be in stores later this year.
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