Topic: Mark Sanford

History-making SC GOP primary advances Haley as 1st woman, Indian-American nominee for gov.Nikki Haley has won South Carolina's Republican nomination for governor.Haley beat U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in Tuesday's runoff, riding the backlash against the state's notoriously rough-and-tumble politics.She picked up the ...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford vacations again without briefing Lt. Gov. Andre BauerSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is back in the office after again taking a vacation without telling the lieutenant governor where he was.Sanford spokesman Ben Fox would not say Tuesday ...

After affair allegations, 'raghead' slur causes latest flap in SC governor's raceA GOP lawmaker hoping to be the state's first female governor is getting publicity for all the wrong reasons.First a political blogger said he and Rep. Nikki Haley had an inappropriate ...

Trailing candidate for governor in SC gets a boost from Sarah Palin and Jenny SanfordA rock star sisterhood of sorts is forming around an underdog GOP candidate in the race to replace disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.State Rep. Nikki Haley is ...

60 SC House Republicans sign letter asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign following affairSixty South Carolina House Republicans are asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign.A letter asking the GOP governor to leave office was delivered to Sanford shortly after noon Wednesday.It follows ...

click to enlarge Another fabulous new achievement for Paul Stanley: He's made the Democratic Underground's Top 10 list of Conservative Idiots behind, among others, Michael Steele, Lou Dobbs, Sarah Palin, G. Gordon Liddy, George W. Bush, Mark Sanford and some guy named ...

No coach seats for SC governor; Sanford flew up front on key state travelSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford shed his fiscal conservatism on several taxpayer-funded international trips, including a South American jaunt that included time with his mistress, choosing expensive first-class or ...

Jon Ralston compares South Carolinas governor with ours, and wonders whyno ones called for Gibbons resignation As I watch the tragicomic Mark Sanford soon-to-be-a-Lifetime-movie story unfold in South Carolina, complete with brave and opportunistic calls for the governor to resign, I cannot ...

RNC member asks for unfaithful SC governor to resign to spare party, practice his rhetoricA top South Carolina Republican leader says philandering Gov. Mark Sanford should resign and practice the philosophy he's preached of holding GOP leaders accountable. He's also a county ...

Strapped for cash, states want a share of Obama's economic plan to fix up the USPresident-elect Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems has local officials clamoring for their share of those federal dollars despite concerns that ...