On the eve of Tuesday’s special election in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch offered up an intense recounting of her 1988 divorce in order to cut off a whisper campaign from supporters of her opponent, Republican Mark Sanford.A few local news outlets and blogs have recounted the story of Colbert Busch’s first marriage in recent days, which at one point resulted in both she and her then-husband being held in jail for 24 hours on contempt charges. Republican fundraiser Foster Friess brought the incident up in an e-mail supporting Sanford this week and Think Progress has reported a fake “push poll” that included the question “What would you think of Elizabeth Colbert Busch if she had done jail time?” A picture of her mugshot has also been making the rounds online.
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