Lawmakers vote to reprimand Gov. Mark Sanford

South Carolina lawmakers have voted down a measure to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford for taking secret trips to visit his mistress in Argentina and improperly using state aircraft. While expected, the House Judiciary Committee's 18-6 vote came after emotional debate.

Democratic Rep. Todd Rutherford of Richland County said Wednesday a state employee would be fired for leaving a job for five days without telling anyone -- like the governor did when he secretly visited his mistress in June.

Rutherford blasted fellow lawmakers for their failure to push for impeachment saying, "You idiots can't do any better than to meet four times to talk about something as serious as impeachment?"

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[ddrfrk]

Republicans are the reason this state is so corrupt. Why don't we band together at the state house and run the republicans out of office

[sunmast]

Idiots. Rutherford was right. Everyone else who works for agencies of SC government will go to jail, be fired & have fines on top of jail for misuse of taxpayer funds.

Bought & paid for legislators. Sanford should have been impeached.

[ldksparda]

I hate republicans.