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Report: Jenny Sanford on short list for SC Senate appointment
Sanford would bring an instant celebrity profile to the Senate and would almost certainly unleash a torrent of media attention. Aside from a national book tour, she has kept a low profile since weathering a storm of scandal in 2009, when her husband, then-Gov. Mark Sanford, disappeared from the state to visit his girlfriend in Argentina.
But she always wielded a muscular political hand behind the scenes during her husband’s campaigns and his time in the governor’s mansion. Her name frequently surfaces in discussions about future candidates for the lowcountry House seat currently held by Scott.
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Gov. Haley please don’t do this
tmitsss on December 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Might be a stroke of genius. It’s all about identity politics now. Appoint a jilted wife and she has the sympathy vote. Not saying I like it, but these are our times…
Jim-Rose on December 11, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Good grief! No!
Charlemagne on December 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM
If Haledy does this she’ll prove to be even more stupid than already assumed.
Schadenfreude on December 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
2 words: Senator Clinton
faraway on December 11, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Schadenfreude all around if this comes to pass.
mwbri on December 11, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Why Jenny Sanford? Appointing a jilted wife, so you can get ‘passed over a black man’ grief, I guess?
changer1701 on December 11, 2012 at 12:24 PM
why?
Joey24007 on December 11, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Then SC would have two female senators.
Mark1971 on December 11, 2012 at 12:28 PM
In the USA of today Sandra Fluke is ‘woman of the year’.
The USA has lost her last shred of decency. The Obamas ate it and the Rs are emulating, being the eternal fools.
Schadenfreude on December 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Jenny is as qualified as Wintour.
Anyone who disagrees is a rightie hypocrite.
Schadenfreude on December 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM
She would have bigger balls.
22044 on December 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Haley is effectively floating trial-balloons to gauge reaction. Let her know how you feel and maybe we can win this one.
Jim-Rose on December 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM
THREAD WINNER
ToddPA on December 11, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Scott or GTFO
Red Cloud on December 11, 2012 at 12:40 PM
Appoint Scott and let Sanford run to replace him in Congress.
Robert_Paulson on December 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM
What are her qualifications? (honest question) Wiki says in part:
Sanford attended Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Lake Forest, Illinois.[2] She graduated magna cum laude, earning her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 1984.[2]
From 1984 until 1990, she worked at Lazard Freres & Company, an investment bank based in New York City,[2] eventually becoming a vice president in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group. It was while she was working at Lazard that she met her future husband, Mark Sanford, at a beach party in the Hamptons on Long Island.[2] She later talked about the meeting in an interview with The Post and Courier, “It wasn’t exactly love at first sight. It was more like friendship at first sight.”[2]
In 1994, she managed her husband’s successful campaign for the United States House of Representatives, as well as his successful gubernatorial campaign in 2002.[2]
Sanford also acted as her husband’s advisor while he was in Congress.[2] According to the Governor’s website, she assisted him daily during his first term as Governor, and co-managed his successful re-election campaign in 2006. In 2005, she launched the Healthy South Carolina Challenge, an initiative to reduce the incidence of chronic preventable disease. She serves on the boards of several non-profits, including the Hollings Cancer Center, the Drayton Hall historical property in Charleston, the Coastal Community Foundation and the Children’s Hospital Advisory Fund.
Paul-Cincy on December 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM
Campaign managing plus some outside work experience is generally a good qualifier for office. But I’d say appoint her to Scott’s spot, and give Scott the Senate job.
alwaysfiredup on December 11, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Nope that only works for Democrat women. the story would be SC GOP still racist and picks white house wife over qualified black man.
bannor on December 11, 2012 at 1:21 PM
There shouldn’t even be a “LIST” – this is ridiculous. Tim Scott should be appointed – PERIOD. Haley just needs to do the right thing, and be done with it.
Pork-Chop on December 11, 2012 at 1:25 PM
There’s a world of difference between Congressman and Senator. She might not even want the former. I wonder if she’s conservative?
Per wiki, in the modern era, there have been only 4 black Senators, the last 3 all from Illinois. Carol Mosley-Braun, Obama, and Obama’s replacement, Roland Burris. Tim Scott, you know Joe Biden might say this is a big f***ing deal. I don’t know anything about Tim Scott though.
Paul-Cincy on December 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Nope. Not just “Thread Winner” but the HotAir.com winning comment of all 2012.
I read that, and I laughed so hard, coke came spitting out from my nose.
Poor ole’ Lindsay. At least Mark Kirk is out about being gay. Lindsay, you don’t have to hide it from us “wascally Republicans.” We’ll luv you for being you.
ericdondero on December 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Kirk isn’t out about anything. It’s just been rumored. Kirk was actually married up until 2008.
Illinidiva on December 11, 2012 at 2:12 PM