Jenny Sanford is pissed and she is working behind the scenes to smack Mark:

[Are_grits_groceries]

WHY JENNY SANFORD IS PISSED
FORMER FIRST LADY FURIOUS OVER GOVERNOR'S NEW LOVE APPEARING ALONGSIDE HER CHILDREN

Despite her protestations to the contrary, former S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford is actively stoking the controversy involving her ex-husband’s trespassing allegation – which bodes poorly for former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford over the coming three weeks as he tries to complete his political comeback.

Jenny Sanford’s lingering animosity toward the man who publicly humiliated her four years ago is nothing new. In fact she reportedly threw a few jabs his way earlier this year at a funeral for a former staffer at the S.C. Governor’s Mansion. That’s right … at a funeral.

This after turning the whole “woman scorned” thing into a cottage industry …

Of course in Jenny Sanford’s defense her husband publicly humiliated her in 2009 – not only by cheating on her but later by declaring that his Latin lover (now fiancee) Maria Belen Chapur was his “soulmate.”

Ouch …
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http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/04/17/why-jenny-sanford-is-pissed

One of the last people I would want after me
(Fitsnews is run by a lbertarian sob but he has connections around the state who keep him informed)

[calimary]

1. Good.

[bigdarryl]

2. Sounds like a woman SCORNED!!! to me

She needs to get over it .If he marries her he can't have his kids around his new wife WTF!!!

[carolinayellowdog]

3. derailing his comeback is a great way to "get over it"

go Jenny!

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. It was the FIRST time they met her.

He didn't have the courtesy to introduce them in a less public setting. They have been through a lot.

In addition, Mark keeps breaking the divorce agreement by going into HER house repeatedly even after being warned. He has also broken other parts.

So she can't get over it. He refuses to leave her alone.

She may be scorned but with what he has done, he deserves every bit of hell he gets.

[Sheldon Cooper]

5. Yes, after everything he's done, she's somehow still to blame.

Funny how that works, isn't it?

[Carolina]

43. Touche! Grits

He didn't give a shit about his kids when he was cavorting off to Argentina and then publicly embarrassing himself and his family with his diarrhea of the mouth televised AP press.

It was horrible to see that press conference knowing how devastating it must have been for Jenny and OMG ... their 4 boys, at least one of whom was a teenager at the time while the others, though younger, were still old enough to understand what was going on.

Being cheated on in a long term marriage is a pain I wouldn't wish on anyone, but compounding that hurt with public humiliation (e.g. his soul mate declarations and The State newspaper's exposure if his titillating emails) is a wound as awful as any physical one.

Plus what some don't get on this board is that he literally disappeared. The Lt Gov, the State police, no one know where he was or how to contact him in the event of a state emergency. That is dereliction of duty!

Sanford was, and is, an ass who deserves to be in the dustbin of history. Good for Jenny for upsetting his comeback apple cart.

from Columbia!

[Sheepshank]

61. disappeared on Fathers Day...kids didn't know where he was. n/t

[Carolina]

68. Exactly!

some family values, eh?

[snooper2]

57. I just wish they would both got the fuck away...

I guess an election could do the trick

[HappyMe]

60. I agree.

They both need to stfu and go away.

[Le Taz Hot]

13. So, the onus is on HER????

He's acting like a stalker, has broken several articles of their divorce agreement and SHE'S the one who needs to "get over it?" Alrighty then.

[jberryhill]

17. Watching the Super Bowl with his son is stalking?

She left their 14 year old son alone at the beach house, wouldn't return his calls, knowing full well they wanted to watch the game together, and then makes a big deal about him "trespassing" so he could watch the game with his son.

Woop de do.

[Le Taz Hot]

19. She is under NO obligation

to return his phone calls. In fact, chances are, her lawyers probably told her NOT to talk to him directly. Regardless, that does NOT give him permission to walk into the house which she is currently occupying without advanced notice and without some sort of pre-arrangement. THAT is called trespassing. The fact that you see no wrongdoing on his part and, instead, are putting all the blame on her is telling.

[jberryhill]

24. Don't put words in my mouth

I see wrongdoing by both of them, who seem to each be quite self absorbed.

A divorced couple playing stupid games with child visitation - how novel.

But there will always be those like you who have a need to ascribe opinions to others, so you can fight your imaginary demons.

[Le Taz Hot]

25. Oh, don't be silly.

My post was based on your defense of him without acknowledging any wrongdoing on his part. Given the information available, it was a logical assumption.

I find the "ascribing opinions to others" projection interesting, particularly followed by "so you can fight your imaginary demons." Irony, anyone?

[jberryhill]

26. It's a tempest in a teapot

Divorced people play stupid games with each other all of the time in order to maintain engagement through legal actions as a substitute for doing constructive things with their lives and moving on. One or the other or both believe there is some kind of "win" in any of it.

[Le Taz Hot]

29. Personally, I don't give a shit about any of it.

For some reason (boredom?) I clicked on the thread and noticed what I deemed to be a sexist statement and felt the need to counter it. I do that sometimes.

As for the rest of it, file it under: "Pfffffftttt"

[CTyankee]

35. Mark started this. It looks like Jenny is determined to wind it up...

Chapin may be wondering why the hell she got mixed up in this thing in the first place. Maybe all she wanted was a little roll in the hay with a U.S. governor...she's probably seeing her "main chance" fading with little Markie and making some plans to find somebody with more money and w/o an ex-wife with blood in her eye...

[mercuryblues]

47. I find it odd

that the first person that implied this was Jenny's doing, is Mark. We all know how trustworthy he is.
Used state funds to meet up with his mistress, used state planes to go to private parties and political fund raisers, lied about where he was on Father's Day, and left the state with no one in charge for 5 days. I wouldn't believe him if his tongue came notorized.

[CTyankee]

48. well, if that "mistress" has any sense she can see the train wreck in her life that is to come.

She might have been under the impression that all that money was HIS, not from his ex-wife's family fortune. Wouldn't put it past him to lie about that.

Fact is, if he lied to his first wife, he'll lie to his second...this guy is a disaster...

[mercuryblues]

51. If

They'll do it with ya, they'll do it to ya.

[CTyankee]

52. Yep. Hope Chapin has her passport handy and a bag packed for the

fast getaway!

[mercuryblues]

53. +1

[treestar]

28. He is not supposed to be there

So it's trespassing.

[jberryhill]

30. Right

And it is a common game among divorced couples to play "let's make the kids hostages to our manipulative games".

[treestar]

31. No excuse for disobeying the law

If a court order tells you to stay away, you must. There's no defense that it's part of a "game."

[jberryhill]

36. You will note the word "stalking"

I'm sure the order has a lot of provisions, including ones involving keeping the kids away from the other. A one-sided court paper, without the reply, is often a bad way to find out what was going on.

My understanding of "stalking" is that it involves the target actually being around.

[treestar]

38. The court order, not one of the parties' pleadings

He hasn't been charged with stalking. If he is, the evidence will either be enough to convict him or it won't be. But there is no defense that "my ex wife is playing games." If has to be a defense to the charge as put forth in the criminal law.

[jberryhill]

41. "He hasn't been charged with stalking"

If you take a look up the thread, I was responding to use of the word "stalking" here.

He hasn't been criminally charged with anything. This is a civil complaint.

[mercuryblues]

65. he hasn't been

charged with it.

The complaint filed by Jenny Sanford’s lawyer, Deena Smith McRackan, said that Mark Sanford has “entered into a pattern of entering onto plaintiff’s property. Plaintiff has informed defendant on a number of occasions that this behavior is in violation of the court’s order and has demanded that it not occur again.”

In Febuary of 2011, McRackan sent a letter to Mark Sanford telling him not to trespass on Jenny Sanford’s property. A copy of that letter was also sent to the local police, according to court filings.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-wife-accuses-ex-gov-sanford-of-trespassing.php

[mercuryblues]

37. Did he have

HER permission to go into HER home. NO. Believe it or not, I have left my 14 year olds alone. There are no laws against it. 12 years old is considered old enough to be left alone and to babysit. The kid was 14.

He cared so much about his kids he left them on FATHER's Day, but felt he had to be with them on Superbowl? There is no irony or hypocrisy in that?

Again how would you like it when you came home and found your EX in YOUR house (on more than one occassion) without YOUR permission. They are divorced, he doesn't live there anymore.

Poor fucking Mark. Boo fucking hoo. He cheated on her, she divorced him. If he had kept it in his pants, they would still be married and he could go into their house without a problem. But he is now the victim? If markie hadn't violated the divorce agreement to begin with, he wouldn't have been slapped with trespassing. He did ALL of this to himself.

[jberryhill]

40. "He cared so much about his kids he left them on FATHER's Day"

And that is a day for the kids? Or for him?

"But he is now the victim?"

You are clearly having a conversation with someone not in this thread.

[Sheepshank]

64. When your kids are younger...Fathers Day (manufactured celebration) is in part for them too.

They want to do things for and be with the parents. He jilted his own kids for the mistress....and yet Mark tries to turn this whole thing around and imply Jenny has parenting issues because she left her 14 year old alone during the Super Bowl. What a fucker...literally.

[Carolina]

45. You are so right, mercury blues

He deserted his family, his 4 boys, on Father's Day weekend. How's that for republican family values?

He didn't give a shit then, so he has to live with the consequences now. How's that for republican responsibility.

Fuck Sanford. He started this shitstorm with his behavior and his new found desire to resume public office (where he'd have a good salary and benefits on our dime). He should just go away... slither away like the snake that he is!

[Tanuki]

46. Belen probably didn't have any interest in watching the superbowl

or he would have watched it with her instead.

[Sheepshank]

63. As if the TV in her house was the only one with Super Bowl reception in a 20 mile radius?

flimsy excuse for trespassing.

[Bucky]

20. Sounds more like a woman WAKING UP to what assholes in office can do.

With a few victories, she might just come over to our side.

[jberryhill]

27. She's a RW religious nutjob

...I doubt she's changing that.

[Are_grits_groceries]

49. You don't know squat about Jenny Sanford.

She is not a religious nutjob. Her politics run toward the libertarian strain. Jenny S is not an evangelical who rails about everything.

Mark Sanford has a lot of political enemies in this state. In 2006, he picked out a slate of candidates to run against some of the most Republican senior members. They were people who wouldn't vote his way.Only one won a race. You piss those people off and you have some real, vengeful enemies. One of them could have easily called in a favor and had those divorce papers released.

If he doesn't like the conditions of the divorce settlement, then he should go to court to try to amend them.

It is HER house. He has no right to enter it as he has repeatedly done. If he wants to see his kids, he is allowed to meet them somewhere. I'm not sure how happy they are with him.

If she really wanted to get him, she would have run. She would have stomped him.

Mark Sanford thinks ONLY of himself and does what he wants. Why you see fit to defend him is beyond me. He is an utter jackass on all levels.

[Sheldon Cooper]

56. I don't understand why anyone is defending him.

Some people seem to think that he's just this poor guy who simply fell out of love with his wife, and found the new love of his life, and how dare we not see it as a love story for the ages? Can't we see that Jenny is just a sad spiteful woman scorned who can't get over it?

Bullshit. I don't care about his adultery, but I do care about his abandonment on his elected office, the highest office in his state for chrissake, to leave the fucking HEMISPHERE without even his security detail knowing about it, so he could visit his paramour. And now, he has willfully and defiantly violated a COURT ORDER to stalk his ex-wife and enter her home without permission, more than once if you believe her, and she's just supposed to roll over and play dead??

She's the party at fault here? Unbelievable.

[CTyankee]

39. sounds like what goes around, comes around to me...

funny, that...

[Crunchy Frog]

50. The man who was off banging his mistress on Father's Day.

Must care about those kids alot. How tragic that he's being so misused by that ex of his.

[hlthe2b]

59. Heavens you are clueless on this....

Absolutely

[LanternWaste]

66. Sounds like an unfaithful and ignoble ex-governor to me. He needs to get over it.

Sounds like an unfaithful and ignoble ex-governor to me. He needs to get over it.

[MrScorpio]

6. Both ex's sound like jerks...

I would say that they deserved each other, but it seems that that jerk thingie got in the way.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Why is Jenny Sanford a jerk?

She held back on reporting him and did not publicize it when she did. She has had to endure a lot because of him and he refuses to stop.
I don't blame her one bit especially after the stunt with the kids.

[MrScorpio]

9. It's one thing for her to defend herself from his bullshit...

But if she's going out her way to sabotage his campaign (Actually, I hope that she succeeds in doing that, by the way), she's just going a bit overboard in the git-back arena.

All I have to say is that I'm glad that I'd never have to associate with either one of them.

Too much drama going there for my tastes.

[Katashi_itto]

10. It's a Republican. Anything that takes a Republican out I'd root for.

Repukes would have half the country as starving serfs. I pass deathcake around anytime one snuffs it, or has their career blown out of the water.

[Ilsa]

11. He behavior affected her and their kids.

Going after the politician's career is probably the only weapon in her arsenal. Maybe she believes that forcing him back into private life would be better for the children, too.

[mercuryblues]

15. Really?

How would you like it is someone was stalking you? Entering your house at random, when ever you go out.

Sanfraud said he couldn't let his son watch the superbowl alone? But he had no problem letting him celebrate FATHER's Day alone, while hiking out of the country to bop his mistress. He cares so much about his sons, that he introduces them to his mistress, now fiancee in front of TV cameras.

She is not going out of her way to sabotage him. He is doing that all on his own....by violating the divorce agreement. Over and over again. She has a right to be able to leave her home without him entering it on a whim. Seems to me like he may be stalking her.What woman wouldn't love coming home and finding her ex in her home, without her permission?

Mark is all about Mark. He can't understand why his wife left him after finding out he was screwing another woman. He even had the nerve to publicly ask Jenny if she would be his campaign manager. Mark is trying to make it out like he is the wounded party, because she isn't tolerating his shit anymore.

[Bucky]

22. Republicans see life as a constant competition. This is their natural behavior.

Cooperation is for liberals, sissies, and terrorists. If they like mixin it up with each other, regardless of what it does to their kids, let 'em be, I say

[GoCubsGo]

23. Because she's a republican.

It comes with the territory. That being said.I don't see her behavior regarding her ex-husband to be jerk behavior. It's just self-defense, IMHO.

[JI7]

7. i don't think they ever loved each other, or at least were not "in love" , i think they both used

each other for their own gain. he used her for the money and how that would help him politically. and she was probably raised thinking she should be with a guy like him who will do well career wise . when she should have been the one to run for office or do whatever the fuck she wants.

i hear their sons are Ron Paul supporters.

[Ilsa]

12. She probably wants to protect her kids

From further public embarassment and humiliation caused by their father.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. He pleaded 'the superbowl defense'

which enables a person to trespass and enter a home in order to watch the national pastime.

The Appalachian Trail defense is not applicable in this case.

He is after all

A LAWYER.

[randome]

16. She's handling the public part of this PERFECTLY.

[lunatica]

18. I'm glad his public 'service' life is apparently over

All he seems to do is serve himself. There's something wrong with that boy.

[babylonsister]

21. How Jenny Sanford Sabotaged Mark's Comeback

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/17/how_jenny_sanford_sabotaged_marks_comeback.html

How Jenny Sanford Sabotaged Mark's Comeback

Jason Zengerle: "Indeed, while Jenny has never come out and publicly opposed Mark's congressional candidacy -- choosing to remain officially neutral -- she's waged a brutally effective passive-aggressive campaign against it. Whether it was revealing to me that Mark had shamelessly asked her to manage his election bid; or telling the Washington Post that, until the night Mark's fiancée showed up onstage at his victory party in April, one of her sons had never met the woman; or just generally making it known that she is furious that he's running, Jenny has done a masterful job of keeping her ex-husband's past (and not-so-past) transgressions in the news. She has seeded the ground with political land mines, stood back, and waited for Mark to step on one."

[CTyankee]

32. If I were Chapin I'd be wondering how I could get myself extricated from this whole thing...

before things got "interesting."

She's a real looker. She sure could do better than him. He doesn't look all that "manly" to me, if you know what I mean...

[6000eliot]

33. She should have run against him in the primary.

[bklyncowgirl]

34. Sorry, but this is fun!

So sordid, so nasty. Hollywood scripwriters take note--this could make a terrific movie.

[Tanuki]

42. Skulking around outside the house with his cell phone flashlight,

it's pretty obvious he was trying to keep the fact that he had been there a secret. It isn't much of a stretch to think that he encouraged his son to keep it a secret from Jenny as well. I would be really pissed if an ex was trying to triangulate my child in this manner, or to encourage him be dishonest with me.

[Pholus]

44. Don't forget. Sanford made this newsworthy BY HIMSELF.

He's pathological. Probably has no useful skills OTHER than being a politician. He's ticked off the old money so no cushy consulting jobs for him. So running for office is all that he has left. Too stinking bad his Republican constituents ONCE AGAIN ignored their so-called values and gave him the chance.

No sympathy here.

[FSogol]

54. The GOP pulled all funding for his "campaign" today.

Let me know when his opponent has an ad with someone creeping around a backyard with a cell phone flashlight.

[Are_grits_groceries]

55. Won't happen.

That would be tacky which is a mortal sin down here. Mark has hung himself and she shouldn't touch that dirty mess with a 10 foot pole. That is strictly a GOP problem. Le them wallow in it and try to clean it up.

[Orsino]

67. The GOP oppose equality in part to keep women disposable.

The former Mrs. Sanford has helped make her ex radioactive, exposing him as a talentless, entitled dimwit addicted to being a big shot. Hope Rusch can retire him.

[hlthe2b]

58. He is such a classical weasel... it exudes fromhim.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

62. Well, it's probably gonna backfire

Sanford is as slick as goose shit and he'll just cry "I'm bein' harassed!!!" and all the good ol' boys will line up to vote for him.