South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is holding a news conference today at 2 p.m. ET at his office in Columbia.
The two-term Republican has been in the news and the tabloids in the past week over his unknown whereabouts. He surfaced this morning at an Atlanta airport, telling a reporter that he had spent the past week unwinding in Argentina -- and not, as his staff had said, hiking along the Appalachian Trail.
Should be fun.
categories: Missing Persons
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