Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back.

Bush administration official. Sanford's wife had become aware of her husband's infidelities around five months before the scandal broke and the two had sought marriage counseling. He also spent time at his parents' 40-acre (16 ha) cattle ranch in Delray Beach Florida.

He was later censured by the South Carolina General Assembly following a State Ethics Commission investigation into allegations that he had misused state travel funds to conduct his affair. As governor Sanford had a contentious relationship with the South Carolina legislature: notably he made public statements that he would reject stimulus funds for his state from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Air Force Reserve.