CREW was pleased to learn South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has initiated an investigation [1] into Gov. Mark Sanford's (R-SC) affair. Last Friday, we called on the AG and the South Carolina State Ethics Commission to investigate whether Sanford violated the state constitution and broke state law by misleading his staff regarding his whereabouts, leaving the state leaderless, and misusing state funds to conduct the affair. Our complaint can be found here [2].

CREW executive director Melanie Sloan stated:

CREW is pleased the attorney general has ordered an inquiry into Gov. Sanford’s conduct. It is one thing for the governor to have an affair, it is quite another for him to abuse his position of public trust to pursue an illicit relationship. The people of South Carolina deserve to know whether Governor Sanford – charged with upholding the law – was himself violating the law.

We look forward learning the outcome of the AG's investigation.