Mark Sanford

"If he is not impeached," said S.C. state Rep. Greg Delleney, speaking of Sanford, "then what we are saying is character doesn't matter with our elected officials."

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It says in part that Sanford's "conduct under these circumstances has brought extreme dishonor and shame to the Office of the Governor of South Carolina and to the reputation of the State of South Carolina."

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The measure says in part that Sanford's "conduct under these circumstances has brought extreme dishonor and shame to the Office of the Governor of South Carolina and to the reputation of the State of South Carolina." It continues that it has caused the office and state "to suffer ridicule resulting in extreme shame and disgrace."

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"We are confident that we will be able to address each of these questions, none of which constitutes findings of guilt and none of which we believe rise anywhere near to the traditional standard of impeachment," Sanford attorney Butch Bowers said Monday. Even some lawmakers who have called for Sanford to quit questioned whether the charges are weighty enough to cut short the governor's tenure. "If it's relatively minor ethics violations, I don't believe there will be sentiment there to remove the governor,"

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"All he had to do was tell the lieutenant governor that he was going away," said state Rep. Greg Delleney, a fellow Republican who is one of the sponsors of a resolution to impeach Sanford. "He didn't even have to tell him where he was going. He just had to tell him that he was going away."

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"Coming here will help us sell airplanes." Albaugh said earlier that the move to South Carolina will add jobs there as well as in Washington, home to Boeing's Seattle-area manufacturing hub. Boeing will get a "combination of statutory incentives available to any company and some sales-tax exemptions specific to the company," Sanford said. "There are some special incentives in terms of exemptions that were important to make the case for South Carolina versus other places."

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"I'm proud of the work Mark and his Administration have done over almost seven years now, trying very hard to move the ball forward on [growing the economy, improving public schools, and reforming government]." Sanford also praises Haley as "principled, conservative, tough, and smart." "So when I'm asked my wish for South Carolina's future, my wish is for a leader of state government like Nikki Haley," Sanford writes. "And there's one other thing,"

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"What strikes me as still relevant," Sanford writes, "is the central insight that it isn't 'collective action' that makes this nation prosperous and secure; it's the initiative and creativity of the individual." I've been down this road with Sanford a couple times before, but this remains the idea behind so much of the fight against health-care reform. It remains the reason that House Minority Leader John Boehner called Obama's agenda "the greatest threat to freedom that I've seen in the nineteen years I've been in Washington."

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"Boeing's decision to expand their presence in our state with an infusion of jobs and capital investment represents not only enormously good news for our state's economy, but also a telling dividend from our state's continued efforts to better our business climate," South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said in a statement.

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For South Carolina, Sanford continued in his statement, this new deal "means lowering taxes, easing regulatory burdens in our state's tort and workers' compensation systems, and keeping South Carolina a right-to-work state."

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