SC Gov. Mark Sanford is in considerable trouble at this point. The SC State Ethics C omission has come back with 37 charges against the Republican governor.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 ethics charges he broke state laws limiting official use of airplanes and involving campaign money.
The details were released Monday by the State Ethics Commission. They came five days after the panel charged the governor without offering any specifics.
Sanford's lawyers have claimed the charges involve minor and technical aspects of the law.
The charges followed a probe into whether Sanford used state aircraft for personal and political trips, used pricey airline seats despite low-cost travel requirements and reimbursed himself with campaign cash.
It also means the
resolution to impeach Sanford continues.
A S.C. House panel will hold a hearing Tuesday at 1 p.m. on the resolution to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford, which was introduced last week.
The Judiciary subcommittee will meet in Room 101 of the Blatt Building. The meeting is open to the public.
The resolution seeks to remove the two-term Republican governor, who cannot run for re-election again, for disappearing from the state for five days in June. The married governor subsequently said he had been in Argentina visiting his lover.
The subcommittee hopes to conclude its work by Christmas. Its recommendation then would go to the full House Judiciary Committee. If that committee votes to impeach Sanford, the resolution would go to the full House. If the full House passes the resolution, it would go to the S.C. Senate, which would try Sanford. If convicted, he would be removed from office.
Between the ethics investigations and the impeachment resolution, there's going to be tremendous pressure on Sanford to resign over the next several weeks. Will he go, or will he hold out? The longer he stays in the news, the more damage he does to the GOP.
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