Sixty-one state House Republicans signed their names Wednesday to a letter asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign.
Whether those fellow party members are willing to vote to impeach him is another matter.
Majority Leader Kenny Bingham, a Cayce Republican, said once Sanford steps aside, the state can begin healing.
“Your actions have been destructive to our state’s image on a worldwide stage and are harming the stability of our state on many levels,” Bingham wrote to Sanford on behalf of the caucus leadership.
It gets exhausting to post this stuff but part of a blog is the local context and unfortunately in South Carolina this is part of ours.
For the record, as you may have guessed, I believe the governor should have resigned a long time ago.
I agree that this stuff is exhausting, but I disagree on the matter of resignation. This is just payback and power grabbing time for big spending Legislators. If they were really concerned about the state of the State, they would drop this nonsense and take care of real State business. Sanford should stay.
I have said he should resign all along as well — not because of his “absence” — a silly inflation of the importance of “government” 24/7 — not because of his travel — but because he committed adultery and broke his vows, and he has publicly many times been on record as opposed to that. He simply can’t be trusted and the honorable thing is to resign.
Yes, it’s payback and power grabbing by good old boy Republicans [the Democrats here don’t really count] who have spent like drunken sailors and never met a porkulus they didn’t like — and who literally Hated Sanford for his principled conservatism that challenged their spending and regulating and taxing.
But payback is what happens when you make yourself vulnerable by doing something as dishonorable and horrible as he did.
There are consequences for doing wrong, and one of those is that your enemies are gleeful and take advantage. That’s life.