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Home Front: Politix
Argentine Man Is Said to Be Source of Sanford E-Mail
2009-06-28
The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford's e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford's Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously to a South Carolina newspaper last December by an Argentine man the mistress had briefly dated.

The associate, who asked not to be identified, is a Buenos Aires television executive involved in hiring the woman, whom he identified as María Belén Chapur, a producer at the television network America from 2001 to 2002.

Last December, the executive said, Ms. Chapur was dating a young Argentine a few months after her affair with Mr. Sanford began. The man happened to see the e-mail messages being exchanged between the governor and Ms. Chapur, said the executive -- who said he had direct knowledge of the situation -- and hacked into her e-mail account to see the rest.

Infuriated, the man sent the messages to The State, the newspaper in South Carolina's capital, Columbia.
The scorned man! It always works out that way, men are such sensitive brutes ...
Yes they are, the little darlings.
When she found out, the executive said, Ms. Chapur immediately ended the relationship with the man, whose identity has not been disclosed.

In one of the published messages, dated July 9, 2008, Ms. Chapur wrote Mr. Sanford that she had seen another man. "He is a very nice guy, great heart," she wrote, "but unfortunately I am not in love with him. You are my love. Something hard to believe even for myself as it's also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation."

In publishing the e-mail messages this week, The State said they had been sent anonymously. Asked on Friday about the executive's account of the source of the messages, Steve Brook, the managing editor, said he had no comment, adding only, "That's interesting." Joel Sawyer, the governor's spokesman, also had no comment.

Ms. Chapur did not respond to messages left on her cellphone.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Oops. Musta hit the Submit button twice.

Fixed it for you, Skunky Glins 5***
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2009-06-28 19:12  

#5  Six months ago nobody would have paid any attention to a Repub scandal.

Now the O'moon is over and his numbers slide, the breaking Trunk 'Scandal of the Month' suddenly becomes useful.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2009-06-28 19:10  

#4  Second source? Seems like sometimes the papers don't even wait for a first source.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-06-28 11:49  

#3  Waiting for confirmation. They needed a second source. That turned out to be the governor himself, when they photographed him at the Atlanta airport getting off a plane that had landed from Buenos Aires.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-06-28 10:15  

#2  Why'd the paper sit on the letters for six months?
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-06-28 09:36  

#1  What ebbs the fastest - Sanford, Iranian protests, MJ or Crap and Trade? I suspect it is Sanford followed closely by Iran and hopefully Crap and Trade in September. MJ will [ according to American short attention span for anything relevant and important to their lives ] live on forever right next to Elvis.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2009-06-28 08:08  

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