Washington, December 12: The wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said today that she was filing for divorce, six months after Sanford travelled secretly to Argentina for what he later confessed was an extramarital affair.
Jenny Sanford, wife of the two-term Republican once considered a potential presidential candidate, cited “many unsuccessful efforts at reconciliation” in a brief statement announcing her decision to seek the divorce.
The statement came after a South Carolina legislative subcommittee voted on Wednesday not to recommend the impeachment of Sanford, saying his secret trip in June for an affair with an Argentine woman did not meet the constitutional standard of “serious misconduct.”
The matter goes before the full judiciary committee of the South Carolina House of Representatives for a vote next week.
—Agencies