Sanford criticized for not visiting J.V. Martin Junior High

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina’s Senate minority leader says Gov. Mark Sanford should visit the Dillon school that President Obama highlighted in a speech this week.
   
Democratic Sen. John Land of Manning wants the Republican Sanford to visit J.V. Martin Junior High School, a school that Obama visited as a candidate.
   
An eighth-grader at the school, Ty’Sheoma Bethea, was with first lady Michelle Obama in Washington for the speech Tuesday after writing a letter urging Congress to send money to fix schools.
   
Land said Sanford should cut back on his national travels criticizing the president’s stimulus package to visit the school.
   
Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer told The Post and Courier of Charleston that Sanford has visited many distressed schools in rural areas of South Carolina and is pushing for change.