But yesterday, Sanford flew to Washington to<\/font> demand $300 million<\/a> in stimulus money for education, the State newspaper reports: <\/font><\/p>\n Sanford, who spent much of last year fighting parts of the Obama administration\u2019s stimulus plan, now wants S.C. to have a piece of $4 billion in \u201cRace to the Top\u201d education money<\/span>. […]<\/font><\/p>\n Sanford met with [Secretary of Education Arne] Duncan to learn more about a charter school program Duncan started in Chicago, said Ben Fox, the governor\u2019s spokesman. Sanford also took the trip to urge Duncan to support more charter school grants, Fox said. […]<\/font><\/p>\n Sanford\u2019s trip \u2014 which<\/font> did not appear<\/a> on his official calendar \u2014 is especially hypocritical because the majority of stimulus money destined for South Carolina was to fund education and save thousands of teachers\u2019 jobs. Yet, in March, Sanford told Fox News host Glenn Beck that taking the money would be akin to \u201cfiscal child abuse.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n What a hypocrite!! I would so like to suggest that Arne Duncan tell Sanford to take a long flying #$%& off a short pier. In good conscience, I cannot. To do so would be to suggest that the needy children of South Carolina, already suffering from RSDD, be penalized for Sanford\u2019s GOP hypocrisy. What;s RSDD? It\u2019s Red State Disability Disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days the Appalachian Trail is a most unpredictable byway, leading first to sexy South America and now to the coffers of Washington, DC. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) waged a high-profile war against the economic stimulus package last spring, claiming that accepting the $700 million for which his state was eligible would lead […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"AT_Sign\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/GOPHypocriteSeeksHandout_1F13\/AT_Sign.jpg\" "\\"AT_Sign\\"")
<\/a> South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) waged a high-profile war against the economic stimulus package last spring, claiming that accepting the $700 million for which his state was eligible would lead to \u201ca thing called slavery.\u201d Even as his state\u2019s unemployment rate climbed above the national average, Sanford maintained his<\/font> partisan<\/a> and<\/font> politically motivated<\/a> refusal to take the funds.<\/font><\/p>\n