Some of the bumps in the path between Gov. Mark Sanford and Republicans in the General Assembly:

• January 2003: Sanford says he does not favor a cigarette-tax hike; House Republicans promptly kill it.

• March 2003: Sanford says he could support cigarette-tax increase, if it lowers income taxes.

• February 2004: Sanford makes rare appearance before Senate Judiciary Committee to testify in favor of his government restructuring plan. Committee proceeds to kill the plan, leading Sanford aide to say lawmakers went back on their word.

• March 2004: Sanford threatens to sue Legislature over economic development bill known as Life Sciences Act. Lawmakers say they’re “blind-sided.”

• May 2004: Sanford carries two squirming pigs to a news conference outside House chambers to criticize lawmakers’ budget proposal.

• June 2004: Sanford tells The State newspaper that “being pals, making friends with everyone up there” at the State House is not going to work.

• February 2005: Sanford brings horse and buggy to the State House to complain about lawmakers’ having failed to adopt his restructuring proposals.

• July 2005: When the state’s credit rating is lowered by one agency, Sanford and his spokesman say lawmakers haven’t done enough and failed to adopt Sanford’s plan to lower the income tax rate for the state’s richest residents.

• July 2005: New House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, says Sanford has not done enough for job creation.

• November 2005: House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Cooper, R-Anderson; Senate Finance Committee chairman Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence; and Democratic State Treasurer Grady Patterson block Sanford from picking his own director of State Budget and Control Board.