BREAKING: Sanford Cops To More Meetings With Mistress
Maybe Gov. Mark Sanford was so overwhelmed by his own emotions upon first confessing to an extramarital affair that he forgot when mention all the meetings with his eventual mistress:
In a lengthy and emotional interview with The Associated Press in his Statehouse office, the governor described five meetings with Maria Belen Chapur over the past year, including two romantic, multi-night stays with her in New York before they met there again intending to break up.He said he met her two other times - their first meeting in 2001 at an open-air dance spot in Uruguay and a coffee date in New York in 2004 during the Republican National Convention. He said neither time was romantic.
For those waiting for a firm and resounding cry across SC politics for Sanford to step down, this latest development is probably not the other shoe dropping. But any misstatement of fact by the governor inspires questions about other details possibly missing from Sanford's tale.
Just why did the Governor talk to AP today, anyway? Simple: he's paving the way for his next job.
He told reporters that he counseled Ms. Chapur on her failing marriage.
Look out Dr. Phil!
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/mark-sanford-hes-back/