The News-Gazette.com Weblog

Central Illinois Gazette

Mark Sanford replaces Blagojevich as Gov. Doofus!

Posted by: Tom Kacich

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:55 PM

Gov. Mark Sanford admitted today that his secret trip to Argentina over Father's Day weekend was to visit a woman he is having an affair with.

First look: Gov. Mark Sanford arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.

- Gina Smith /The State

CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS

"I have developed a relationship with what started as a dear dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently as I expect many of these things do, just casual email back and forth," Sanford said. "But here recently this last year developed into something much more."

Asked if Sanford was separated from his wife, he said "I don't know how you want to define that. I"m here and she's there. I guess in a formal sense we are not."

Sanford said his wife has known about the affair and they have been working through it for the past five months. "What I did was wrong, period. End of story," Sanford said.

http://www.thestate.com/154/story/838823.html