Jul 25 2009
Senator Thomas Opens Request of Sanford’s Travel Records
COLUMBIA – State Sen. David Thomas of Fountain Inn opened a Senate probe Friday of Gov. Mark Sanford’s travel with a request for records from the governor’s office and testimony from the state’s chief law enforcement officer.
But Thomas did so without any other members of his three-member Senate Finance Subcommittee on Constitutional Officers, who are on vacation.
And one of those, Sen. Greg Ryberg of Aiken, a Sanford ally, issued a statement afterward saying the State Law Enforcement Division has already looked into the governor’s travel “and I know of no reason to continue this discussion.”
“South Carolina faces double-digit unemployment, record budget cuts and billions of dollars in state debt and unfunded liabilities,” Ryberg said. “The General Assembly must focus on these issues and stop rehashing old news.”
I agree with Ryberg. I’m sick of hearing about Mark Sanford. The whole scandal has been beaten to death. SLED has already looked into Sanford’s travel records and found nothing abusive. At this point, Sanford clearly isn’t going to resign. If he were, it would have happend within the first couple of weeks when the pressure was the greatest. It’s time to move on and deal with more important things now.
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