Republican state Sen. Larry Grooms, who describes himself as a longtime Sanford friend and ally, told POLITICO he called the governor following the AP interview to tell him that he would be calling on Sanford to resign.
“Your effectiveness as governor has weakened to such a point ... that we won’t be able to pass any of your legislative agenda,” Grooms said he told Sanford over the phone in explaining why he planned to join those calling on the governor to step down.
“Senator, you need to understand something,” Sanford answered, according to Grooms. “This is a story about true love.”
Grooms then told Sanford that he “was destroying the Republican Party, the party of personal responsibility,” to which the governor did not respond.
Ha! I love this guy. He keeps saying true things even when it's clear that the situation vis-a-vis his political career calls for the not saying of true things.
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Oh dear..."a story about true love"...yeah, that makes my defense of him a bit harder to sustain. But it fits with what I said about us preferring politics to truth. Oh well.
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