The detail of Sanford’s little lover’s rendezvous in Argentina keep emerging. The latest round shows that Sanford’s office truly didn’t know where he was and couldn’t contact him:

Gov. Mark Sanford’s chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor’s cell phones 15 times during the governor’s secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last month. But the governor never picked up.

Meanwhile Sanford’s communications director, Joel Sawyer, worked to minimize the fact the governor had been out of touch with his staff for about four days.

Records released Monday show Sawyer juggled e-mails and media calls from around the nation, giving a consistent message that was later proven to be untrue.

One phrase comes to mind – dereliction of duty. How can anyone trust their leader who takes the job so lightly to just leave? Here’s an example of what this dereliction caused:

Those records also show Sanford declined a dinner invitation from a company looking to expand its business in South Carolina because Sanford planned to be in Argentina that day.

So with South Carolina in economic hell, Sanford misses an opportunity to bring in business and jobs. He sure didn’t go into hiding when it came to turning down stimulus money, but when actual economic growth potentials emerge he is AWOL.

South Carolinians and their state assembly need to get rid of this disgrace. This isn’t a situation of partisanship, but rather a question of leadership. Sanford just lost the state business opportunity because of his poor judgment. What next? Will his state suffer in a disaster while he is off on some secret little booty call?

And anyone not calling for his resignation shows poor judgment in management skills. If one of my employees just left with no warning they wouldn’t have a job to come to, and that’s a practice carried out by every business I can think of. So this isn’t just a question of Sanford’s affair, but, and more importantly, his ability to be an executive. Do the right thing and start impeachment hearings.