Voters are always shouting there are more pressing issues to worry about in the world. But as long as politicians keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons, the cycle will continue to repeat itself.
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) got personal with the details on his Facebook page by announcing a split with his mistress-turned-fiancée Maria Belen Chapur.
According to The New York Times, the couple had just spent a week in Paris and she woke up to the Facebook post last Friday just like the rest of the world.
“We had a great time here, we were like in a honeymoon,” she told the Times. “I thought that he might tell me, ‘O.K., let’s put a date, end of 2015.’ But that didn’t happen. That’s why I wrote to him, ‘I had a spectacular week, you know I love you, but I don’t want to continue in the category of mistress, and if we continue like this I continue in that category, and I can’t bear it anymore. It has been really painful to me.’”
Sanford had a myriad of reasons for the breakup in his lengthy post but apparently had been relaying completely different information to his current lady.
“His response was, ’24 months. If not I’ll say goodbye and I will look for you in 24 months.’ ” She said she had asked him to make their break public, but that Mr. Sanford did not warn her before announcing it on Facebook on Friday, catching her off guard. “I learned it from the press today,” she said over the weekend.
Check Rep. Sanford’s statement in full on the following pages. Y’know, before he decides to up and delete it.
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Photos: CBS, Facebook/Mark Sanford
