Yesterday, the South Carolina House panel considering impeachment against Mark Sanford, addressed count 20: "The Haircut flight".
Picking up from there, South Carolina Radio Network:
Sanford flew back from business in Myrtle Beach during March of 2006, business including speaking to a Rotary Club, and had his hair cut in Columbia.
The hair cut point stems from a note jotted in his calendar.
One of Sanford’s attorneys, Butch Bowers, says the governor was already in Myrtle Beach on official business, speaking to a Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and had gotten there on his own, when a staff member flew in and they flew back to Columbia.
Bowers said the governor did not take a flight to Columbia just to get an $11 hair cut and called the idea absurd. He said that Sanford had to return to Columbia at some point anyway. Bowers said that the governor also ate dinner that night but that, as well, had nothing to do with a flight at tax payer expense.
Bowers says even if the hair cut were a factor, that the return trip is completely permissible since the governor was returning home for the night, even though he went back to Myrtle Beach after that, because by law the governor must reside in the Governor’s mansion.
Somewhere Sarah Palin is smiling.
