News and Politics | June 30, 2009 | 6 comments

SC Republican Governor Mark Sanford admits additional extramarital encounters

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor

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COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Tuesday that he saw his Argentine mistress more times than previously disclosed, including what was to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.

In a lengthy and emotional interview with The Associated Press in his Statehouse office, the governor described five meetings with Maria Belen Chapur over the past year, including two romantic, multi-night stays with her in New York before they met there again intending to break up.

He said he met her two other times, including their first meeting in 2001 at an open-air dance spot in Uruguay.

"There was some kind of connection from the very beginning," he told The Associated Press, though he said neither that meeting nor a 2004 coffee date in New York during the Republican National Convention were romantic.

His interview was the first disclosure of any liaisons with Chapur in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which Sanford admitted to a total of five encounters over their eight-year relationship.
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    • @khnl on twitter says "AP Newsbreak: SC gov 'crossed lines' with women (AP) : AP - COLUMBIA, S.C. �" South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford .."

    • 2 years ago
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    • Sorry for the "sensationalist" article ya'll. Bear with me..........So, let me get this straight, Mark Sanford lied WHILE he was coming-clean about the affair that the taxpayer in SC helped pay for. WOW!! The hypocracy is of a brand new caliber, I must say. Mr. Family Values....???.....The Manson Family, maybe. I have watched his painful "apology", but I don't see any real sorrow. He's not sorry. He might be sorry he got caught. I can't help but wonder, what would have happened to this story if he hadn't dissappeared for a week?? The State (news paper) in Columbia has had the Sanford-romance emails since Dec. '08.

    • 2 years ago
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