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Mark Sanford
Sep 3 2009, Marco Villa

South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford was for a while touted as a possible savor for a demoralized and defeated Republican party. But the fiscal and social conservative was undone by his own infidelity. Earlier this summer, the governor went missing....

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