Sanford disappears again

Our illustrious governor has stepped out once again. Where is he, where did he go? He’s supposed to be back in town today, ostensibly to vote for his hand-picked successor, Rep. Nikki Haley in the Republican gubernatorial runoff. Where he’s been, though, is unknown except to a small few. Is this the sort of thing we might expect with a Gov. Haley? Only time will tell.

The funniest part is — guess what? — Lt. Gov. André Bauer had no idea. Nobody told him. Again. And nobody else is talking, like Sanford is off on some sort of special operations mission or something. Operación: Vaquero del Amor.

Nearly one year to the day that Gov. Mark Sanford embarked on a secret trip to Argentina and turned S.C. politics on its ear, Sanford’s whereabouts are unknown to the press and the public.

Monday, Sanford’s spokesman Ben Fox told The State Sanford is on “personal time” but declined to say where the governor is.

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State Law Enforcement Division Director Reggie Lloyd said Sanford has security with him but would not elaborate.

“We’ve left it up to the governor’s office to disclose where (Sanford) is,” Lloyd said.

In deference to the two-term failure, his spokesman said that Sanford spent most of the weekend with his sons, but how much can we trust anything coming out of the Governor’s Office? Over the past several years, the Governor and his minions have done a damn good job at destroying any trustworthiness that once existed there.