Romney took 417 days off as MA Governor = SLACKER

[bushisanidiot]

new york times piece out today

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/us/politics/mitt-romney-often-away-when-he-was-governor.html

"BOSTON — When the ceiling collapsed in the Big Dig tunnel here, Gov. Mitt Romney was at his vacation home in New Hampshire. When the Bush administration warned that the nation was at high risk of a terror attack in December 2003, he was at his Utah retreat. And for much of the time the legislature was negotiating changes to his landmark health care bill, he was on the road.

During Mr. Romney’s four-year term as governor of Massachusetts, he cumulatively spent more than a year — part or all of 417 days — out of the state, according to a review of his schedule and other records. More than 70 percent of that time was spent on personal or political trips unrelated to his job, a New York Times analysis found.

Mr. Romney, now the Republican presidential nominee, took lengthy vacations and weekend getaways. But much of his travel was to lay the groundwork for the presidential ambitions he would pursue in the 2008 election, two years after leaving office.

During his last year as governor, he was largely an absentee chief executive. In October 2006, for example, he was out of the state all or part of 25 days. His public schedules said he was spending “personal time in Utah” or “attending political events” in California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin. He went to a fund-raiser on Oct. 6 in Georgia for the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, stumped on Oct. 12 for a candidate for governor in Pennsylvania and appeared on Oct. 31 in Idaho on behalf of another candidate. In December, his last month in office, he took a swing through Asia before vacationing in Utah."

[onehandle]

1. Work is for the little people... Unless Rmoney can fire you first. nt

[geckosfeet]

2. He was off campaigning for all of year 4 and half of year 3. We liked that he was out of the state.

But he was running around the country bad mouthing MA so it was kind of a trade off.

[HereSince1628]

3. And still had time in his bipartisan furor to veto 800 some bills.

You gotta admit, when he actually decided to do some work, he was an obstructionist.

[Justice]

7. The legislature overrode most of his vetoes

So in the end, legislation was passed, but not because of him.

I posted something last week about the fact that Mitt was the 4th Republican Governor - 3rd elected, one was acting - so there were Republican governors in MA for 12 years before Mitt. Not like it is such an amazing event to have a Republican as Governor.

Additionally, when Mitt was elected, no member of the MA legislature was heard to say that the chief objective of Democrats was to make Mitt a one term Governor.

He basically checked out after 2 years to run for the White House in the 2008 election.

[courseofhistory]

4. I just saw this report

on MSNBC--occasionally I flip over to MSNBC for a few minutes and just happened to catch this report and some commentary on it. Does anyone know if anyone else has reported it?

[bushisanidiot]

5. I haven't seen any coverage. And no coverage of the 7.8% unemployment rate

MSM is not non-partisan. they root for republicans every time. there are only about 4 or 5 people on msnbc who lean left, but all of the rest are either middle or to the right. and msnbc is rare in that they are the only station that even has left leaning journalists.

[Matariki]

6. And that was just in one year