IS GOV. SANFORD ANOTHER WATB?

He refused to apply for Federal stimulus funds despite the terrible economic condition many of the counties of South Carolina are in and despite the legislature overriding his veto. He was finally taken to the state Supreme Court and he unanimously lost:

Chief Justice Jean Toal and three of the four other justices — Donald Beatty, John Kittredge and John Waller — said a state law passed last month requires Sanford to apply for the money and doesn’t conflict with the federal law providing the stimulus funds.

In a separate concurring opinion, Justice Costa Pleicones said state lawmakers complied with an amendment of the federal law — proposed by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn in response to Sanford’s refusal to accept the money — by adopting a concurrent resolution accepting the funds and passing a law designating how the money will be spent.

He then disappears for several days and no one in the state knows where he is or how to get in touch with him. According to one cover story, he needed to get some down time after fighting so hard to prevent the poorest people in his state from getting more aid.