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Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010 4:15 PM UTC2010-01-05T16:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Jenny Sanford memoir moved up

The South Carolina First Lady's infidelity tell-all will arrive on bookshelves in February

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford’s memoir about dealing with her husband’s infidelity will be published next month.

The 240-page “Staying True” goes on sale Feb. 5, according to the Web site for Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House Inc.

The book was to have been published in May and neither Sanford nor the publisher immediately returned calls about the change in release date.

Jenny Sanford filed for divorce from Gov. Mark Sanford last month and a final hearing on the petition is scheduled for late February.

The governor, once a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible 2012 presidential contender, disappeared for five days last summer and returned to publicly confess an affair with an Argentine woman. His staff told reporters he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he was actually in Argentina.

The publisher’s Web site says the memoir will reveal Jenny Sanford’s private ordeal over her husband’s public betrayal. The book, which has a portrait of the first lady sitting by the beach on its cover, will tell how she learned just a day ahead of the public that her husband had not ended his affair with the woman he later called his soul mate.

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Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 1:05 PM UTC2010-10-19T13:05:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Jenny Sanford says the gov is still seeing lover

Ex-wife appears on "Good Morning America" to discuss ongoing relationship

Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says her ex-husband is still seeing the Argentine woman who caused the breakup of their marriage.

Jenny Sanford appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, saying Gov. Mark Sanford has not introduced their four children to the woman he’s called his soul mate.

Gov. Sanford disappeared for five days in June 2009 and told no one where he was going. The governor came back to South Carolina and admitted to a yearlong affair with Maria Belen Chapur.

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Friday, Jun 18, 2010 8:19 PM UTC2010-06-18T20:19:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Haley affair accuser endorses Haley

The blogger who alleges an extramarital affair with Nikki Haley has just endorsed her for South Carolina governor

SC Primary Governor

Rep. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington,who garnered the most votes in the GOP gubernatorial primary gives a victory speech to supporters at the Capital City Club in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Haley will face Rep. Gresham Barrett in a runoff election in two weeks for the GOP nomination. Her husband Michael, son Nalin and daughter Rana stand behind her. (AP Photo/Rich Glickstein/The State) (Credit: Rich Glickstein)

Will Folks, the South Carolina blogger and political operative who alleges that he had an affair with gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, has endorsed Nikki Haley for governor of South Carolina.

Folks, a creepy, self-promoting weirdo who nonetheless has presented evidence of, at the least, a close personal relationship with Haley, has been under relentless attack from the Haley campaign and her supporters since he went public with his claim a week before the primary election.

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Wednesday, Jun 9, 2010 2:15 PM UTC2010-06-09T14:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

“C Street House” under ethics investigation

An ethics office will determine whether congressmen are paying below-market rent to a secretive Christian group

"C Street House" under ethics investigation

The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the C Street townhouse owned by the mafia-inspired Christianist group “The Family.”

Members of Congress who live in the C Street House pay $950/month for private rooms in a $1.8 million townhouse, steps from the Capitol, with maid service and laundry included. How can the building’s owner afford such a deal? Easy — the C Street house is classified as a church.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint in April. The OCE’s job is to vet complaints and refer cases to the appropriate ethics committee.

Congressmen who live in the house have been downplaying the unusual nature of the situation ever since the John Ensign and Mark Sanford scandals thrust the house into the limelight. The OCE investigation could be abandoned within 30 days or go on for three months before its taken up by the ethics committee.

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Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010 4:30 PM UTC2010-06-08T16:30:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Second alleged Nikki Haley beau takes polygraph

The South Carolina gubernatorial race is a circus, and unless Haley cracks 50 percent today, it'll go on for weeks

South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley

South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley

By the end of the day, Nikki Haley could be the Republican nominee for governor of South Carolina, running to replace the sex scandal-tarred Mark Sanford. But because this is South Carolina we’re talking about, two men have come forward to say that they had extramarital affairs with Haley. The first one released phone call logs and text messages. The second has now taken a lie detector test.

Larry Marchant, a local lobbyist and former strategist for Haley opponent (and dim-bulb bigot) Andre Bauer, says he had a one-night stand with Haley at a “school choice convention” in 2008. The local Fox affiliate applied the polygraph. The results: inconclusive:

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Friday, Jun 4, 2010 6:33 PM UTC2010-06-04T18:33:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Nikki Haley’s promise: Will resign (after elected) if affair rumors true

Vote Nikki Haley for South Carolina governor! She promises to do the right thing if it later turns out she's lying

Mark Sanford

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during an interview with The Associated Press about his relationship with an Argentine mistress, in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. During the interview Sanford said that he "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain) (Credit: Mary Ann Chastain)

If Nikki Haley is elected governor of South Carolina, and ends up pulling a Mark Sanford, she promises to then pull a reverse-Sanford and actually retire.

It’s one thing to just refuse to dignify rumors of sexual misconduct with a response. It’s another to deny them but then announce that you will resign the post you have not yet been elected to if, despite your denial, they turn out to be true. That is kind of weird. That’s also Nikki Haley’s new position:

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