When it comes to personal drama, former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford isn’t alone … plenty of people have had relationships go bad.
In fact Sanford’s Democratic opponent in next month’s special election for the U.S. Congress – former six-figure taxpayer-funded bureaucrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch – falls into that category, too. How do we know this? Well we wrote about some of her issues in early January – before Sanford made the GOP runoff (or claimed his party’s nomination for South Carolina’s first congressional district).
What didn’t we know? That Colbert-Busch’s drama earned her a brief jail sentence …
Wait … what?
That’s right. Buried at the tail end of a report from Schuyler Kropf of The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, we find the following nugget …
(Colbert-Busch) was granted a divorce from her first husband, Robert W. Legare, in August 1987. Court records show the couple continued to fight in court over unpaid child support, insurance and Legare’s visitation rights.
In November 1988, Family Court Judge Mendel Rivers Jr. issued an order saying they had “failed miserably” to resolve their differences in the children’s best interest and ordered them both confined to the Charleston County jail for 24 hours.
Their divorce file shows their issues calmed down after 1989, and she married Claus Busch four years later.
Hmmmm …
We’re more than willing to give Colbert-Busch the benefit of the doubt in all this. After all her first ex-husband was on America’s Most Wanted … so it’s safe to say there was an elegant sufficiency of crazy on his side of that marriage (sort of like there’s an elegant sufficiency of bitterness on the other side of Sanford’s first marriage).
And in fairness to her these issues date back to the Reagan administration … not earlier this year.
Having said that, it does seem to explain why Colbert-Busch’s campaign failed to issue a comment on Sanford’s “No Trespassing” scandal last week.
And at the end of the day all of this is noise, too. All that matters (or should matter) is how these candidates are going to vote if elected to the U.S. Congress …
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“We’re more than willing to give Colbert-Busch the benefit of the doubt in all this” but we are going to make a big deal out of it on the web site in an attempt to garner votes for our old buddy Sanfraud.
“We’re more than willing to give Colbert-Busch the benefit of the doubt in all this” but we are going to make a big deal out of it on the web site in an attempt to garner votes for our old buddy Sanfraud.
This piece attempts to dig deeper, though actually researches the wrong ‘Robert Legare.’ However, the third comment sheds some light.
http://www.viralread.com/2013/01/21/south-carolina-elizabeth-colbert-busch-americas-most-wanted-ex-husband-robert-walker-legare-jr/
February 24, 2013 12:11 pmby Mike Brant
LULU is a fine person. I loved her dearly back in the late eighties and found her to be hardworking, smart/intelligent and driven to be successful. A Hugo did us in but nonetheless I loved her then and do to this day. Her jerk ex-husband who lived in the DC area then, tried unsucessfully to hurt, defame and otherwise hurt her by trying to disrupt her life and that of her children. MY greatest pride was supporting her as she wove through the judicial system to bring this rotten SOB to justice and get him jailed for his failure as a father to support his children. He was more content to hurt her and cared little about taking care of his children. She strived during that time to educate herself, care for her children and to follow a path to success with determination and engaged in the never ending quest to overcome her plight in life. Her beliefs and willingness to put herself out there, will serve well her political pursuits to find a better way forward for this district and its people. Liberal she is not, but inventive and willing to seek new avenues to different outcomes that hopefully will help us in this district. I have missed her greatly, but take resolve in the fact that she is made of the right stuff and will represent this district with aplomb and grace.
There is one thing you need to understand – there are ALWAYS two sides to every divorce – until you walk in those shoes, it is hard to understand
Syn well since her first husband went to jail for the day (Same as she did) for ontemt of court. AND that he was later convicted of a Felony (Securities Fraud) and even was on Americas Most Wanted…I will go with her, because he is obviously not a nice guy. HE ultimately had to pay $1Million for his part in it.
This piece attempts to dig deeper, though actually researches the wrong ‘Robert Legare.’ However, the third comment sheds some light.
http://www.viralread.com/2013/01/21/south-carolina-elizabeth-colbert-busch-americas-most-wanted-ex-husband-robert-walker-legare-jr/
February 24, 2013 12:11 pmby Mike Brant
LULU is a fine person. I loved her dearly back in the late eighties and found her to be hardworking, smart/intelligent and driven to be successful. A Hugo did us in but nonetheless I loved her then and do to this day. Her jerk ex-husband who lived in the DC area then, tried unsucessfully to hurt, defame and otherwise hurt her by trying to disrupt her life and that of her children. MY greatest pride was supporting her as she wove through the judicial system to bring this rotten SOB to justice and get him jailed for his failure as a father to support his children. He was more content to hurt her and cared little about taking care of his children. She strived during that time to educate herself, care for her children and to follow a path to success with determination and engaged in the never ending quest to overcome her plight in life. Her beliefs and willingness to put herself out there, will serve well her political pursuits to find a better way forward for this district and its people. Liberal she is not, but inventive and willing to seek new avenues to different outcomes that hopefully will help us in this district. I have missed her greatly, but take resolve in the fact that she is made of the right stuff and will represent this district with aplomb and grace.
There is one thing you need to understand – there are ALWAYS two sides to every divorce – until you walk in those shoes, it is hard to understand
Syn well since her first husband went to jail for the day (Same as she did) for ontemt of court. AND that he was later convicted of a Felony (Securities Fraud) and even was on Americas Most Wanted…I will go with her, because he is obviously not a nice guy. HE ultimately had to pay $1Million for his part in it.
Wow. Someone went through a divorce in 1987? Stop the presses!
You mean you could get a divorce in 1987? Wow!
Wow. Someone went through a divorce in 1987? Stop the presses!
You mean you could get a divorce in 1987? Wow!
You forgot to mention how Colbert-Busch’s ugly divorce resulted in her dereliction of duty to the people she served. Surely she must have disappeared for a week without telling staffers where to find her while she skipped the country at taxpayer expense? I mean, if you’re going to draw a moral equivalence, surely you have to point out how her “personal problems” impacted anyone other than herself the way your boy Sanford’s did. Judge Rivers didn’t seem to be too concerned about the welfare of the children when he sentenced both parents to 24 hours in the clink, so it looks like it’s up to you to demonstrate how this is even remotely comparable to what Sanford did to the people of South Carolina.
Nice try, though.
You forgot to mention how Colbert-Busch’s ugly divorce resulted in her dereliction of duty to the people she served. Surely she must have disappeared for a week without telling staffers where to find her while she skipped the country at taxpayer expense? I mean, if you’re going to draw a moral equivalence, surely you have to point out how her “personal problems” impacted anyone other than herself the way your boy Sanford’s did. Judge Rivers didn’t seem to be too concerned about the welfare of the children when he sentenced both parents to 24 hours in the clink, so it looks like it’s up to you to demonstrate how this is even remotely comparable to what Sanford did to the people of South Carolina.
Nice try, though.
Kinda need more details than that really.
Really. Yawn…
Kinda need more details than that really.
Really. Yawn…
http://thecharlestontimes.net/2013/04/there-will-be-blood-mark-sanford-vs-elizabeth-colbert-busch/
http://thecharlestontimes.net/2013/04/there-will-be-blood-mark-sanford-vs-elizabeth-colbert-busch/
Soooooo,we have a woman who was married to a sorry ass man,who turned out to be a sorry ass father and she faught for the rights of her children.Thanks Fits,I didn’t realize she was such a great woman….I was goimg to vote for her just because Sanford is a pile of manure,but now I’ll be voting for her because unlike Sanford, she cares about her kids…Maybe if you dig a little deeper you can find out what kind of toothpaste she used thirty years ago.
But he was a Charleston Legare. He was furious he had to resign from the St. Cecilia Society because that was before they changed the rules on divorce.
I’m weeping.
Simon are you St Ceciia? So am I!
But Legare is also a felon, convicted so I think he lake the honor we are supposed to uphold.
She had no morals just as Sanford did at one time. She is just as sorry as a candidate.
And she still lost, despite your vote.
Soooooo,we have a woman who was married to a sorry ass man,who turned out to be a sorry ass father and she faught for the rights of her children.Thanks Fits,I didn’t realize she was such a great woman….I was goimg to vote for her just because Sanford is a pile of manure,but now I’ll be voting for her because unlike Sanford, she cares about her kids…Maybe if you dig a little deeper you can find out what kind of toothpaste she used thirty years ago.
But he was a Charleston Legare. He was furious he had to resign from the St. Cecilia Society because that was before they changed the rules on divorce.
I’m weeping.
Simon are you St Ceciia? So am I!
But Legare is also a felon, convicted so I think he lake the honor we are supposed to uphold.
She had no morals just as Sanford did at one time. She is just as sorry as a candidate.
And she still lost, despite your vote.
“Colbert-Busch Has Personal Problems, Too
Well no duh Will. She’s a female-Democrat, by definition she’s nuts.
Beats the hell out of being Sarah Palin.
And Palin got caught having sex with a black basketball player behind her husband’s back. So there’s hope yet for ECB.
Palin practices political and sexual diversity.
Typical Rethug response- resort to name calling and do NOT, I repeat do Not respond to the issue(s) at hand.
What’s to respond to, thirty year old BS muck raking by Fits?
“Colbert-Busch Has Personal Problems, Too
Well no duh Will. She’s a female-Democrat, by definition she’s nuts.
Beats the hell out of being Sarah Palin.
And Palin got caught having sex with a black basketball player behind her husband’s back. So there’s hope yet for ECB.
Palin practices political and sexual diversity.
Typical Rethug response- resort to name calling and do NOT, I repeat do Not respond to the issue(s) at hand.
What’s to respond to, thirty year old BS muck raking by Fits?
… Was ECB charged with a $70k ethics violation?
Mark paid a fine of $74,000 for questionable expenses from a $6 million budget. Those questionable expenses totaled, $2,940.00 He paid $74k to make the political witch hunt and smear go away. Because that’s all that was. And seriously, in my world, a person with a cell phone is never unreachable. Do you really think noone was able to reach Sanford? Really?? That’s just niave. How then did his staff tell him that his enemies were skewering him and he’d better get back to SC tout suite, which he did. I didn’t realize that as a government official you were not entitled to a little time off, ie, Obama being unreachable as he played golf with Tiger Wood. You are being a useful idiot and I know that’s not what you want to be, now is it? Jail, really?? How interesting. Why do you suppose the Sanford campaign is not exploiting that. Could it be Mark wants to win on the issues?
thanks. so many people are NOT looking at the bigger picture, they are not asking questions on ECB’ positions on the issues. they are obviously NOT asking who is funding her pathetic campaign… ” ohh, i’ll vote for a Trumpka/Pelosi/Soros funded candidate because…well mark Sanford screwed a hot latina and mercy me…I have NEVER sinned. why I just NEVER look at those Victoria Secret catalogs that Satan sends to my house…”
Sanford’s campaign could have lambasted ECB with this …for the most part he kept it clean. Was nice to hear his camp come out with the news that she continued to collect her 6 figure salary…while smearing and campaigning…and NOT working. keep it classy, liz.
Sanford’s staff said they were not able to reach him. His cell phone was turned off the entire time. It probably didn’t work in South America, anyway.
Where did you hear that? I worked with some of them on the campaign and they said that Mark was called and told to come home as the press was going ballistic. BTW, I have international service, I suspect that a Governor traveling the world for economic investment would as well. Just a thought.
Sorry wrong, the staff did not know where he was either.
–From June 18 until June 24, 2009, the whereabouts of Sanford were unknown to the public, as well as to his wife and the State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security for him, garnering nationwide news coverage. The absence of Governor Sanford was first reported by Jim Davenport of the Associated Press.[38][39] Lieutenant Governor André Bauer announced that he could not “take lightly that his staff has not had communication with him for more than four days, and that no one, including his own family, knows his whereabouts.”–
–While he was gone he did not answer 15 cell phone calls from his chief of staff Scott English–
Site your sources. This is not what I’m hearing from the people who were there. It wouldn’t be the first time the press got something wrong.
Political witch hunt?
Are you calling his Argentinian Mistress a witch? he did go hunting for her.
Or is the hunt you refer to the one where everyone was looking for him when he went AWOL for 6 days?
… Was ECB charged with a $70k ethics violation?
Mark paid a fine of $74,000 for questionable expenses from a $6 million budget. Those questionable expenses totaled, $2,940.00 He paid $74k to make the political witch hunt and smear go away. Because that’s all that was. And seriously, in my world, a person with a cell phone is never unreachable. Do you really think noone was able to reach Sanford? Really?? That’s just niave. How then did his staff tell him that his enemies were skewering him and he’d better get back to SC tout suite, which he did. I didn’t realize that as a government official you were not entitled to a little time off, ie, Obama being unreachable as he played golf with Tiger Wood. You are being a useful idiot and I know that’s not what you want to be, now is it? Jail, really?? How interesting. Why do you suppose the Sanford campaign is not exploiting that. Could it be Mark wants to win on the issues?
thanks. so many people are NOT looking at the bigger picture, they are not asking questions on ECB’ positions on the issues. they are obviously NOT asking who is funding her pathetic campaign… ” ohh, i’ll vote for a Trumpka/Pelosi/Soros funded candidate because…well mark Sanford screwed a hot latina and mercy me…I have NEVER sinned. why I just NEVER look at those Victoria Secret catalogs that Satan sends to my house…”
Sanford’s campaign could have lambasted ECB with this …for the most part he kept it clean. Was nice to hear his camp come out with the news that she continued to collect her 6 figure salary…while smearing and campaigning…and NOT working. keep it classy, liz.
Sanford’s staff said they were not able to reach him. His cell phone was turned off the entire time. It probably didn’t work in South America, anyway.
Where did you hear that? I worked with some of them on the campaign and they said that Mark was called and told to come home as the press was going ballistic. BTW, I have international service, I suspect that a Governor traveling the world for economic investment would as well. Just a thought.
Sorry wrong, the staff did not know where he was either.
–From June 18 until June 24, 2009, the whereabouts of Sanford were unknown to the public, as well as to his wife and the State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security for him, garnering nationwide news coverage. The absence of Governor Sanford was first reported by Jim Davenport of the Associated Press.[38][39] Lieutenant Governor André Bauer announced that he could not “take lightly that his staff has not had communication with him for more than four days, and that no one, including his own family, knows his whereabouts.”–
–While he was gone he did not answer 15 cell phone calls from his chief of staff Scott English–
Site your sources. This is not what I’m hearing from the people who were there. It wouldn’t be the first time the press got something wrong.
Political witch hunt?
Are you calling his Argentinian Mistress a witch? he did go hunting for her.
Or is the hunt you refer to the one where everyone was looking for him when he went AWOL for 6 days?
What a news item!
What a news item!
Why are she and Michelle Obama playing the lottery together? !
Why are she and Michelle Obama playing the lottery together? !
“And at the end of the day all of this is noise, too. All that matters (or should matter) is how these candidates are going to vote if elected to the U.S. Congress …”
BULLSHIT, Fits!!! Personal character, honor & integrity matter & Sanford has precious little of any. He relentlessly continues to humiliate us & now you’re defending the sorry bastard. I’d rather have a reincarnated Pee Wee Gaskins represent us than Sanford.
She supports gun control. I am glad she lost.
“And at the end of the day all of this is noise, too. All that matters (or should matter) is how these candidates are going to vote if elected to the U.S. Congress …”
BULLSHIT, Fits!!! Personal character, honor & integrity matter & Sanford has precious little of any. He relentlessly continues to humiliate us & now you’re defending the sorry bastard. I’d rather have a reincarnated Pee Wee Gaskins represent us than Sanford.
She supports gun control. I am glad she lost.
This article is Fits at its worst! Are you dredging up this ancient history to try and make ECB look as sleazy as Sanford? It won’t work. He’s in a class by himself! This is as bad as some of the jerks that throw up your past legal problem in an attempt to discredit you.
By the way, drop that “six-figured taxpayer-funded bureacrat” line when referring to ECB, she probably earns every cent.
This article is Fits at its worst! Are you dredging up this ancient history to try and make ECB look as sleazy as Sanford? It won’t work. He’s in a class by himself! This is as bad as some of the jerks that throw up your past legal problem in an attempt to discredit you.
By the way, drop that “six-figured taxpayer-funded bureacrat” line when referring to ECB, she probably earns every cent.
I wonder if this desperate low by the nose-diving Sanford is a result of FITS’ apologist activity in favor of Terrorist Child-Killers…
Liberal-Tarians Sanford, FITS, and now Mace, are one voice in the same. They can blame Jenny for outing Sanford for the disrespectful creep he is…but how much Damage is FITS doing by siding with Jihadists who kill our children????…
Yes, FITS will endorse Sanford simply because Sanford is a republican and Busch is a democrat.
FITS Endorses according to the name on his paycheck…and the master of his puppet strings.
Dude, do you ever leave your momma’s basement? Or are you content there with the bag of cheesypoofs and a bit of an orange appendage? Get off the Jihadist baby killer thing already…. Obsessed much? We get it! You want Government control of everything. You, my orange appendaged friend, are just like the very liberals you rant about. More Gov. More Gov… rinse the tube and go get some sunlight… Please.
Guilt catching up to you???
Why do liberals RUN from what they are…If you are ashamed of Baby-killing and Terrorist-loving, be something else.
Just like the Post and Courier endorses ECB just because she is a Democrat. Never mind that the other party, on whose ticket her name appears, is the Communist Party of New York State. Why doesn’t she have a problem with that?
I wonder if this desperate low by the nose-diving Sanford is a result of FITS’ apologist activity in favor of Terrorist Child-Killers…
Liberal-Tarians Sanford, FITS, and now Mace, are one voice in the same. They can blame Jenny for outing Sanford for the disrespectful creep he is…but how much Damage is FITS doing by siding with Jihadists who kill our children????…
Yes, FITS will endorse Sanford simply because Sanford is a republican and Busch is a democrat.
FITS Endorses according to the name on his paycheck…and the master of his puppet strings.
Dude, do you ever leave your momma’s basement? Or are you content there with the bag of cheesypoofs and a bit of an orange appendage? Get off the Jihadist baby killer thing already…. Obsessed much? We get it! You want Government control of everything. You, my orange appendaged friend, are just like the very liberals you rant about. More Gov. More Gov… rinse the tube and go get some sunlight… Please.
Guilt catching up to you???
Why do liberals RUN from what they are…If you are ashamed of Baby-killing and Terrorist-loving, be something else.
Just like the Post and Courier endorses ECB just because she is a Democrat. Never mind that the other party, on whose ticket her name appears, is the Communist Party of New York State. Why doesn’t she have a problem with that?
The judge threw them in jail . . . for “failing to resolve their differences?” And you’re “willing to give her the benefit of the doubt?”
That’s mighty fucking libertarian of you.
The judge threw them in jail . . . for “failing to resolve their differences?” And you’re “willing to give her the benefit of the doubt?”
That’s mighty fucking libertarian of you.
As much as I love this site and the underbelly of stories it brings to light, this has got to be grasping at straws at best. Contempt of court? Is that the all you can bring out on this woman? Nap time call when something big actually breaks..
As much as I love this site and the underbelly of stories it brings to light, this has got to be grasping at straws at best. Contempt of court? Is that the all you can bring out on this woman? Nap time call when something big actually breaks..
Same Colbert-Legare-Busch that represented Bejing’s OOCL doing business in Charleston (one reason that, it seems, a nuclear shipyard and Chicom freighters in the river not mixing, so close the base?!?!?!)??
The “nuclear shipyard” closed in 1995. Two former nuclear submarines that have been converted to training platforms currently operate up the Cooper River at NWS. Don’t get your point.
Same Colbert-Legare-Busch that represented Bejing’s OOCL doing business in Charleston (one reason that, it seems, a nuclear shipyard and Chicom freighters in the river not mixing, so close the base?!?!?!)??
The “nuclear shipyard” closed in 1995. Two former nuclear submarines that have been converted to training platforms currently operate up the Cooper River at NWS. Don’t get your point.
Sanford 57%
Busch 43%
Sanford 57%
Busch 43%
What is the point of this story? If it did anything for me, it has motivated me to donate to her campaign.
What is the point of this story? If it did anything for me, it has motivated me to donate to her campaign.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how they vote when elected. Sanford is a reliable conservative with emphasis on fiscal matters. Busch is a Pelosi progressive who supports union thuggery and taxing . I know where I am voting.
Wow, nothing in your post is true, except the way you’re voting. Says something about you, and it’s certainly not positive.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how they vote when elected. Sanford is a reliable conservative with emphasis on fiscal matters. Busch is a Pelosi progressive who supports union thuggery and taxing . I know where I am voting.
Wow, nothing in your post is true, except the way you’re voting. Says something about you, and it’s certainly not positive.
I’m confused……Why is Sanford’s ugly divorce newsworthy and a reflection on his overall character, but Colbert Busch having the good judgement to marry a man on the Most Wanted List AND serve time in prison because of the nastiness of such a divorce just slinging mud. Seems like ECB’s indiscretions are much worse, to actually have a judge slap her in jail…..YIKES! Mark’s divorce is bitter, but at least he’s managed to stay out of the pokey. Seems to me that their divorces should just cancel each other out and we should get onto the issues facing our country.
Sanford was the problem in his marriage. Colbert Busch was not the problem in hers. So she married a felon – – SHE didn’t engage in any felonies and she didn’t stay married to him, either.
You’re calling 24 hours both parties spent in jail on a contempt charge (for not resolving problems with their divorce) a jail term? Any judge could do that with some of their divorce clients, but most don’t. She didn’t commit any crimes, or even misdemeanors, and it was 25 years ago. Wow, sure hope you’ve never had a parking ticket. You probably think that’s equivalent to being on death row.
I’m confused……Why is Sanford’s ugly divorce newsworthy and a reflection on his overall character, but Colbert Busch having the good judgement to marry a man on the Most Wanted List AND serve time in prison because of the nastiness of such a divorce just slinging mud. Seems like ECB’s indiscretions are much worse, to actually have a judge slap her in jail…..YIKES! Mark’s divorce is bitter, but at least he’s managed to stay out of the pokey. Seems to me that their divorces should just cancel each other out and we should get onto the issues facing our country.
Sanford was the problem in his marriage. Colbert Busch was not the problem in hers. So she married a felon – – SHE didn’t engage in any felonies and she didn’t stay married to him, either.
You’re calling 24 hours both parties spent in jail on a contempt charge (for not resolving problems with their divorce) a jail term? Any judge could do that with some of their divorce clients, but most don’t. She didn’t commit any crimes, or even misdemeanors, and it was 25 years ago. Wow, sure hope you’ve never had a parking ticket. You probably think that’s equivalent to being on death row.
Sometimes I LOVE letting someone else do my research. To think you have to dig back TWENTY-FIVE years to find a problem with Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Wow. you have helped me!
Sometimes I LOVE letting someone else do my research. To think you have to dig back TWENTY-FIVE years to find a problem with Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Wow. you have helped me!
@bogart Well said! It’s pathetic to see Sanford, sorry excuse for a husband and father, run for office. He and John Edwards should form a club called “stupid men do stupid things!”
@bogart Well said! It’s pathetic to see Sanford, sorry excuse for a husband and father, run for office. He and John Edwards should form a club called “stupid men do stupid things!”
Busch 45.2% Sanford 54.3% a 9 point difference with a pretty good turnout for a special election, 31%. Sanford is in the House, God’s in His Heaven and all’s right with the world. Couldn’t be happier.
Busch 45.2% Sanford 54.3% a 9 point difference with a pretty good turnout for a special election, 31%. Sanford is in the House, God’s in His Heaven and all’s right with the world. Couldn’t be happier.