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xchrom

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Mon Apr 29, 2013, 08:28 AM Apr 2013

Mark Sanford's Formidable Opponent: Stephen Colbert's Sister

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/29/mark-sanford-s-formidable-opponent-stephen-colbert-s-sister.html


Left) Elizabeth Colbert Busch answers questions in Charleston, S.C. on February 11, 2013. (Right) Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford during a campaign event on April 24, 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Bruce Smith/AP; Richard Ellis/Getty )

On Monday night Republican nominee and former Gov. Mark Sanford no longer will have to debate with a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi.

With the election to fill South Carolina’s First Congressional District barely a week away, he and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert Busch will meet Monday night in a 400-seat conference center at The Citadel in their only campaign debate. It won’t be televised, but will be streamed live by several outlets. The next night they will appear jointly -- but will not debate -- at an NAACP-organized venue.


The question in Charleston these days is a simple one. In the first two weeks of April it was, “Can Stephen Colbert’s sister defeat Jenny Sanford’s former husband in a May 7 special election for South Carolina’s First Congressional District?” It quickly changed to, “How badly will former two-term Governor Mark Sanford lose?” The campaign exploded in mid-April in a series of events that sent “Sanford reeling,” as a front-page banner headline blared in the Charleston Post and Courier, the district’s dominant newspaper.

The tailspin began with an April 16 Associated Press report revealing that Jenny had filed a complaint in Family Court charging Mark with violating a legal agreement not to enter her post-divorce home on Sullivan’s Island without permission. The clerk of court ruled the agreement was a public document. The court will hear the case on May 9, two days after the election between him and Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
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Mark Sanford's Formidable Opponent: Stephen Colbert's Sister (Original Post) xchrom Apr 2013 OP
thanks, xchrom, interesting article. CTyankee Apr 2013 #1

CTyankee

(63,768 posts)
1. thanks, xchrom, interesting article.
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 08:36 AM
Apr 2013

ECB is an exciting candidate. I just hope there are enough sane people in that SC district to elect her.

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