In a move that could provide him with some political cover, though not much, South Carolina Republicans censured embattled Gov. Mark Sanford but didn't demand a resignation.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
According to Reuters:
ATLANTA, July 7 (Reuters) - South Carolina Republicans have voted to censure the state's governor Mark Sanford over a sex scandal rather than calling for his resignation, easing pressure on their beleaguered colleague to quit.
The party issued the censure late on Monday to admonish Sanford over his affair with an Argentine woman and said he had "breached the public trust" and demonstrated "repeated
failures" but stopped short of recommending further action.
Sanford hasn't publicly shown the faintest inclination to resign. So the state Republicans have given him a gift. The fact that the party didn't ask him to resign is emblematic of the party's strength in South Carolina where Sen. John McCain took 53.9 percent of the vote compared with 44.9 of the vote that went to the President Barack Obama.
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