Where Sanford was when the forest burned [Was: Where were you when the sewers exploded?]

[Mark Mandel]

My wife just told me that the SC governor doesn't have much power, the way
the state gov't is arranged, but they do need him for calling out the Nat'l
Guard. So uncovered absence during a major emergency like that is doubly
bad.

m a m

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 6/25/2009 08:47 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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> >On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > > At 6/25/2009 12:34 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >>We do things better in Kentucky.
> > >
> > > Really?  Sanford disappeared once previously (on an earlier hike?)
> > > when there was a serious forest fire.  (I saw the flames on the
> > > evening news yesterday.)
> >
> >Literal or metaphorical flames? (Sorry, that's too good to resist...
> >and may even be to the point.)
>
> Literal.  I saw and heard about it on an evening news broadcast, but
> the page
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/governors/sanford-returns.html
> has the following:
> -----
> On Rachel Maddow tonight, Lt. Governor Bauer said that Governor
> Sanford had also been hard to reach during the recent forest fires in
> the state.
>
> He said that there was all kinds of property being lost, and that it
> "took a while to reach the Governor".
>
> So this is actually a pattern of behavior with Governor Sanford.
>
> Posted by: wmhogg | June 24, 2009 1:23 AM
> -----
>
>

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