COLUMBIA, SC (AP) -- State officials say South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford asked for extra economic development meetings in Argentina during a trip that brought him to Buenos Aires, where his mistress lived.
Commerce Department spokeswoman Kara Borie said Friday that official plans had been made to only visit Brazil on an expenses-paid economic recruitment trip the governor took last year.
But Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor planned to say longer at his own expense in Cordoba in Argentina for a bird-hunting trip and invited the governor and others to come along.
Borie said Sanford agreed to go along for a day and half, and asked for additional meetings in Argentina tied to economic development. On Thursday, Sanford said he would reimburse the state for the trip.
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