SC taxpayers will pay price for Sanford's lawyer

[Louisiana1976]

Gov. Mark Sanford has a second layer of legal protection — at taxpayers' expense.

The governor's office has hired Connecticut-based attorney Ross Garber to represent its interests as lawmakers begin deliberations on whether to impeach the embattled, two-term Republican governor.

Garber, who will be paid $150 an hour by the governor's office and report to the governor, has represented public officials under investigation and white collar criminal defendants.

He may be most well-known as the ethics expert who represented the Connecticut governor's office when John Rowland faced a 2004 impeachment effort. Rowland subsequently resigned and pled guilty to a corruption charge.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79494.html

[Fumesucker]

1. Good, they elected him, let them pay for him.. n/t

[marmar]

2. I feel bad for the South Carolinians who didn't vote for this troglodyte, but.....

..... when you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.