Jenny Sanford made it clear Friday: She isn’t standing by her man.
Stung by a cheating husband, South Carolina’s first lady filed for divorce on grounds of adultery because of Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with his Argentine mistress.
Friends, political observers and media experts said the move separates Jenny Sanford, a former Wall Street vice president, from a string of other jilted political wives because she opted to dissolve a 20-year marriage.
“She impeached him when the Legislature wouldn’t,” veteran University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said of the Sanford scandal.
“In the future you will have people asking whether the wronged spouses will follow the Hillary Clinton example, or the Jenny Sanford example.”