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Sanford rejects lieutenant governor's call for his resignationThe besieged South Carolina governor says his understudy's move is 'pure politics, plain and simple.'Reporting from Knoxville, Tenn. - South Carolina's lieutenant governor on Wednesday called for the resignation of Gov. Mark Sanford, citing "serious misconduct" and "serious distractions" that have stemmed from Sanford's extramarital tryst with an Argentine woman.
But Sanford declined to step down, calling his understudy's move "pure politics, plain and simple."
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who, like Sanford, is a Republican, said that he was in fact trying to depoliticize the deliberations over the fate of Sanford, who is facing potential impeachment.
Bauer is one of a handful of Republicans expected to run for governor in the coming months; he could ostensibly gain an advantage if he were to fill in the remainder of Sanford's term, although he said Wednesday that he would not seek his party's nomination for governor in 2010 if Sanford resigns.
Bauer, in a lunch-hour news conference in Columbia, the capital, seemed to insinuate that lawmakers allied with other gubernatorial candidates were not moving aggressively to remove Sanford from office because they feared that Bauer would then be able to run as an incumbent.
"Some elected officials who know the state would be better served by a change in leadership are nonetheless working to prevent a change due to their own political interests . . . " Bauer said. "I want to eliminate that dilemma for them by sacrificing my own political aspirations and putting the best interests of the people of South Carolina first."
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