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 Gov. Sanford ignores calls for resignation web posted July 1, 2009 COLUMBIA – The calls for Governor Mark Sanford to resign continue to mount with Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler and four other senators issuing public statements Tuesday for Sanford to step down. Gov. Sanford said that he does not intend to resign and applauded the inclusion of a SLED investigation into his travel expenses during the time of the affair. Gov. Sanford said due to the speculation and innuendo on whether or not public moneys were used, “We believe the best way to put those questions to rest once and for all is for SLED to ask these questions, and we plan on cooperating fully.” Senate Majority Leader Peeler said Tuesday, “Crisis requires people in leadership positions to act decisively, with as much dispassionate wisdom and judgment as possible. Governor Sanford has imposed a crisis upon our state. As members of the Senate, we have a duty to the people of South Carolina to do what is in their best interests. We therefore have concluded that Governor Mark Sanford must resign his office. He has lost the trust of the people and the legislature to lead our state through historically difficult times.” Rep. Nikki Haley, a candidate for governor and a close ally of Sanford, has also weighed in on the situation. “While the governor has clearly made a serious and costly error, the focus of what comes next should not be on how it affects Mark Sanford but instead on how it affects the people of our state. My concern is for the people of South Carolina and for our ability to continue the movement toward government reform, fiscal accountability, smaller government, and protecting the value of a dollar.” Haley said, "To that end, I have major concerns about the viability of that movement and the direction our government could take under the Lieutenant Governor should Governor Sanford resign. As elected officials our actions must be in the best interests of the state - not in the interests of settling long-held political scores - and it is my sincere belief that South Carolina cannot afford to go back to the good-ole-boy system that so badly serves the taxpayers and undermines our government." Though online public opinion polls offered by several media outlets are giving contrasting results, none were scientific and prove to be inconclusive. At the present time all the Legislators can do is give their own opinions, as it does not appear that there is any way for them for force Sanford to step down. Sanford told the Associated Press on Tuesday, "This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story. A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day." In the interview Sanford reportedly said he would die "knowing that I had met my soul mate." Gov. Sanford continues to say that he intends to reconcile with his wife of 20 years and says that he can still govern effectively. © Copyright 2009
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