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Mark Sanford: Fighting 'kangaroo court'
by Mark Silva
Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina facing a state Ethics Commission inquiry into his spending of state money on travel since his extramarital affair was exposed, also has faced growing calls for his resignation.
The latest comes from the state speaker of the House -- a fellow Republican.
"I think it's alarming,'' Sanford said today.
A lawyer for Sanford says the commission plans to give a report of its preliminary inquiry into probable cause for a broader investigation to the state's General Assemblywhich is something not directed under state law.
"The General Assembly is not a prosecutorial body.... Even if we get down the road to impeachment,'' the governor's attorney said today.
"We have a real problem if members of the General Assembly are'' using information from the Ethics Commission to " try to use that for impeachment,'' Sanford said today. "If you go this route, you're setting up a kangaroo court.''
Sanford, who is at odds with many members of his own party and once was viewed as a potential candidate for the GOP's presidential nomination, has faced a spiraling cloud of controversy since he first admitted traveling to Argentina to see his mistress.
His use of state travel funds has come under state scrutiny since that revelation. He has reimbursed the state for some of the money he spent on a Commerce trade mission to South America. Now the Republican speaker of the South Carolina House has called on the Republican governor to resign.
Sanford is fighting.
"You have 30 years of history of people buying Business Class tickets with state money,'' the governor complained, and no one has complained before. "Democrats and Republicans alike have consistently used Business Class tickets.''
He should have stuck to the Appalachian Trail.
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