{"id":576,"date":"2013-02-19T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/19\/how-do-you-define-cheating"},"modified":"2013-02-19T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T21:08:00","slug":"how-do-you-define-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"How do you define \u2018cheating\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he never \u201ccheated taxpayers,\u201d but did admit to some grievous personal mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/mark-sanford-i-never-cheated-taxpayers-87772.html?hp=l4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/mark-sanford-i-never-cheated-taxpayers-87772.html?hp=l4\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/mark-sanford-i-never-cheated-taxpayers-87772.html?hp=l4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He wants to represent the state in Congress once again and is seeking the House seat he held before he was elected governor. But then his personal life took a bizarre turn in 2009 and his career ended.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford\u2019s declaration that he never \u201ccheated taxpayers\u201d needs some examination. Allow me this shot at analysis:<\/p>\n<p>Look at the record. Over Fathers Day Weekend 2009, it was revealed that Sanford\u2019s office staff put out word that the governor was \u201chiking on the Appalachian Trail.\u201d Oops, turns out he wasn\u2019t doing that at all. The married governor instead was in Argentina engaging in a romantic rendezvous with his Latin American girlfriend. Thus, the governor, who had duped the public into thinking he was doing one thing in fact was doing something quite different many thousands of miles away. And he was getting paid with public money to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I submit, that constitutes \u201ccheating taxpayers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I will stipulate that Sanford didn\u2019t embezzle money. He didn\u2019t dip into the till. He didn\u2019t make private investments with the public\u2019s money. He didn\u2019t spend state sales tax revenue on some personal gambling habit.<\/p>\n<p>But the deceit associated with his South American frolic when he supposedly was clearing his head in the cool Appalachian Mountains air amounts to cheating Palmetto State taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford needs to roll out another strategy in his quest for political redemption.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he never \u201ccheated taxpayers,\u201d but did admit to some grievous personal mistakes. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/02\/mark-sanford-i-never-cheated-taxpayers-87772.html?hp=l4 He wants to represent the state in Congress once again and is seeking the House seat he held before he was elected governor. But then his personal life took a bizarre turn in 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you define \u2018cheating\u2019?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}