Mark Sanford rails against excessive government spending and waste but appears to be in the dark about waste under his own purview.
At a press conference Monday, Sanford discussed “a number of wasteful and inefficient proposals contained in the state budget.”
The governor particularly pointed out the proposed “Capitol Police Force,” which would move the 67 officers assigned to protect the Statehouse from the governor’s control to the legislature.
But under Sanford’s oversight, the Bureau of Protective Services assigned one in every five of those officers to administrative positions in Blythewood — something the governor said he was unaware of when asked at the press conference.
“Shouldn’t the Governor know about his own Cabinet agencies,” the reporter asked?
“If your numbers are accurate, then [the administrative assignments] are a little excessive,” Sanford replied after a long pause.
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