{"id":13625,"date":"2009-06-30T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post_and_courier_why_mark_sanford_will_stay\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:40:53","slug":"post_and_courier_why_mark_sanford_will_stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13625","title":{"rendered":"Post and Courier: Why Mark Sanford will stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a whirlwind of public criticism, a good dose of humility and lots of soul-searching over his affair with an Argentine woman, Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday said that one of the key reasons he has decided to stay in office is to avoid influencing the 2010 gubernatorial primary.<\/p>\n<p>If Sanford would step down, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer would become South Carolina&#8217;s 116th chief executive. Many see that as giving Bauer a leg up over other Republican candidates in next spring&#8217;s gubernatorial primary.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer would have the spotlight, and the 18 months left in Sanford&#8217;s second term for a trial run to win over voters. That possibility has political insiders angling behind the scenes and dictating, in part, how Sanford&#8217;s fall from grace plays out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/30\/why_sanford_will_stay87659\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a whirlwind of public criticism, a good dose of humility and lots of soul-searching over his affair with an Argentine woman, Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday said that one of the key reasons he has decided to stay in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13625\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}