Curbing Medicaid abuse Nov 15, 2009
The fight was renewed in 2007 after a fire in Charleston killed nine firefighters and a beach house fire in North Carolina killed seven college students from South Carolina. The effort faded, and a local-option tax credit equal to one-quarter of the cost of a sprinkler system that would be matched by the state was the less-than-adequate result. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
S.C. first lady endorses governor candidate Nov 12, 2009
She moved out of the Governor's Mansion this summer and took the children to the beach house she owns on Sullivans Island. Since then, the Sanford's have refused to discuss the nature of their relationship. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Rangel's revealing portrait Oct 10, 2009
The most serious, perhaps, is the allegation that he failed to pay taxes on about $75,000 in income from renting out a beach house that he owns in the Dominican Republic. For the chairman of the House committee that writes tax legislation not to pay his fair share in taxes would be as bad as, say, for the secretary of the Treasury not to pay his fair share in taxes. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Flowering lantana draws butterflies but little water Sep 12, 2009
So use it liberally here guilt free, but refrain from planting it at your Hawaiian beach house. My favorite design trick with lantana is hiding something less than pretty with it. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
AP INVESTIGATION: SC gov's plane use questioned Aug 11, 2009
He's vowed to stay in office and says he is trying to reconcile with his wife, though she moved out of the governor's official residence on Friday with their sons and plans to spend the school year at the family's beach house ... For example, on March 23, 2005, Sanford flew on a state plane from Columbia to Mount Pleasant, near the beach house, where the governor was scheduled for a 5 p.m. appointment with a dentist. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Senate probe: SC gov broke law on state travel Aug 11, 2009
He's vowed to stay in office and says he is trying to reconcile with his wife, who has moved out of the governor's official residence to live at the family's beach house with their sons. Thomas, who has announced his candidacy for Congress, said the budget subcommittee that he chairs also will investigate Sanford's use of state planes and report those findings later to lawmakers. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Firm That Took On Legal Malpractice Case Now a Defendant in One Aug 8, 2009
and a beach house on Figure Eight Island, N.C., according to the latest lawsuit. The couple, who have two children, separated in 2000 after 12 years of marriage. (Law.com)
Age can do cruel things Aug 3, 2009
Having rented the same beach house all these years, sometimes it seems like our own. We attended the Garden City Chapel as usual on Sunday. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Official says he told senators of VIP deals Jul 28, 2009
Mr. Conrad's two Countrywide mortgages in 2004 were for a beach house in Delaware and an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck in his home state of North Dakota. Robert Feinberg, who worked in Countrywide's VIP section, told congressional investigators last month that the two senators were made aware that "who you know is basically how you're coming in here.". (The Augusta Chronicle)
SC Gov. Resolves To Stay Put Despite Affair Jul 1, 2009
Sanford spoke outside his family's beach house on Sullivans Island ... "If there wasn't healing going on, I wouldn't be here," he said, pointing to his beach house. (KCRA 3, CA)
Jenny Sanford A "Hero" In S.C. Jun 30, 2009
Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission at the family beach house in Sullivans Island, S.C., on Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney). (CBS News -- Politics)
SC Governor Considered Resigning, Won't Jun 29, 2009
"If there wasn't healing going on, I wouldn't be here," he said, pointing to his beach house, where he had dinner with his family Saturday night and where he took a run at sunrise on the sand with one of his sons. MORE.. (Time.com)
Wife warned Sanford about trip Jun 27, 2009
Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford reaches for her religious books while she speaks about her husband's recent affair admission at the family beach house in Sullivans Island S.C., on Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
First lady told Sanford to put end to affair Jun 27, 2009
South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford speaks about her husband's recent affair at the family beach house in Sullivans Island, S.C., on Friday. SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. - South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Sanford to reimburse S.C. for trip Jun 26, 2009
He spent Thursday at his family's beach house near Charleston after spending Father's Day weekend in Buenos Aires. Knotts said the use of taxpayer money was too much to accept from a onetime presidential contender who made his name as a staunch fiscal conservative. (USA Today)
Calls for Sanford to Resign Jun 26, 2009
His wife said in a statement Wednesday that she had kicked him out two weeks ago and asked him not to speak to her while she came to terms with his infidelity, but spokesman Joel Sawyer said they were together at the family's beach house Thursday. The Sanfords have four sons. (Newsmax)
Politicians call for Sanford to resign Jun 26, 2009
He ll have to worry about that, she told reporters as she drove away from the family s beach house yesterday with children in the car. I m going to worry about my family and the character of my children. (Boston Globe)
Gov plans 1st public meeting after affair revealed Jun 26, 2009
He spent much of Thursday with his wife and children at their beach house on Sullivans Island. He shook his head "no" when asked if he planned to resign. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Gov. Mark Sanford Jun 26, 2009
During Mark Sanford's first gubernatorial campaign in 2002, Jenny ran the show from the basement of their Sullivans Island beach house while he fretted as the wind blew his charts off of tripods during outdoor press conferences. They are more thrifty than glamorous: She shops at Wal-Mart and he's been known to wear a frayed blue blazer. (KSBW 8, CA)
Report: S.C. Gov Was In Argentina, Not Hiking Trail Jun 25, 2009
Jenny Sanford said at the family's beach house Tuesday: "Leave us to our privacy.". Sanford, a trim, 49-year-old former real estate investor and Air Force reservist, is typically drained at the end of a legislative session, former aides said. (W-USA News, DC)
South Carolina governor was hiking, not missing Jun 24, 2009
"He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids," Jenny Sanford said while vacationing at the family's Sullivan's Island beach house. She said she didn't know where he was but wasn't concerned. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
S.C. gov to return after mystery trip Jun 24, 2009
Jenny Sanford drove past three reporters outside the family's beach house Tuesday and said only: "Leave us to our privacy.". Fowler said she was surprised to learn Sanford's office said he was hiking "since this whole thing was he wanted to get away from the kids to write things. Strolling down the trail writing?". (MSNBC -- Politics)
SC governor's whereabouts unknown, even to wife Jun 23, 2009
He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids, Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press while vacationing with the couple's three sons at their Sullivans Island beach house. She said she wasn't concerned about her husband, the state's two-term Republican chief executive. (AZCentral -- News)
Vacation Town Banishes Bikers for Lewd Behavior May 10, 2009
The push for the local ordinances kicked into high gear after a white, 20-year-old Coastal Carolina University student was shot to death last May outside a Myrtle Beach house by two black teens during the height of the black, Memorial Day Bikefest. Arrests didn't come for nearly two weeks, and rumors started circling that the suspects were black bikers. (Fox News)
Please ignore Cousin Mark Mar 24, 2009
Do you know he once tried to claim his $3 million beach house was his permanent family residence so he would pay less taxes. Heck, everyone knew that his family was living in the Governor's Mansion. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
SC gov puts $3.5M beachfront home up for sale Mar 15, 2009
The beach house is appraised at $1. 95 million, according to online Charleston County tax records, a nice appreciation over the $461,000 appraisal value when the Sanfords bought the home in 1997. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
When did I get old? Mar 13, 2009
But this year, our March birthday girl, who turns 50, will be feted with a party at a nice comfortable bar (I pray there won t be any karaoke), and plans are being made for the gang to rent a beach house for my 60th (one bright spot in the economic downturn rentals are reportedly a little cheaper). Yep, I plan to make it a birthday to remember. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Life is rough for college kids Feb 23, 2009
I think they had to sell the beach house. Turns out getting that full experience is a little bit pricey. (Gamecock Online, SC)
Commentary: Don't mortgage our... Feb 14, 2009
And, even though it didn't make it into the final version of the bill, why would anyone even consider letting the very investment bankers whose companies just pulled down a few hundred million dollars in TARP funds to be in line to receive a $15,000 government credit for buying a new Hamptons beach house. Finally, history shows us quite clearly that a government cannot spend its way out of an economic downturn. (CNN -- Law)
