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Proud to Be Cheap
Columbia, South Carolina The aide describes a recent staff retreat at Sanford's 3,000-acre farm
near Beaufort. For fun, the governor used an excavator to dig a hole in
the ground, filled it with water, and dared everyone to walk across a
20-foot beam that spanned it. Halfway across the plank, the aide fell into
the mud below. He figured his white pants were ruined, so he tossed them
in the trash. The next morning at breakfast, Sanford announced that he had
found the pants, removed them from the garbage, rinsed them, and hung them
up to dry. He couldn't understand why anyone would throw away perfectly
good clothing. There are also stories that endear Sanford to South Carolina taxpayers,
such as when mold was discovered in the governor's mansion, which had to
be decontaminated. Rather than relocate their family to a publicly funded
rental home, Sanford and his wife moved with their four sons (ages 13, 11,
9, and 6) into the mansion's one-room pool house for ... Sorry, the rest of this article is available only to
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