Mark Sanford in A Governor`s Story, by Jennifer Granholm

On Corporations: 2009: Disdainful of auto companies' bailout proposals

I was pitted against Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota on a Fox News program. Sanford was disdainful of the auto companies' proposals. He said the furniture and textiles industries had been "decimated," but it "didn't take a series of bailouts" to fix their problems. He didn't mention that textiles and furniture manufacturing had all but disappeared from the South. He and Pawlenty dismissed the degree of "restructuring" that was in the auto companies' plans

"You probably haven't read those plans," I asserted, furious at Sanford's demagoguery. His silence was deafening; clearly, he had not. Pawlenty admitted he hadn't read the plans either.