Governor (CA) takes heat for absences

[Rose Siding]

Every time Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves the state, he must relinquish his powers to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante under a law written in the days before the telephone was invented.
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...Bustamante has also publicly released tallies of just how often he is called upon to take over when Schwarzenegger leaves the state or the country - about 106 days so far out of the nearly 500 since the governor took office.

At the same time, Schwarzenegger has criticized the Democrat-controlled Legislature for failing to work hard enough.

Democrats at Wednesday's hearing suggested they would keep that in mind when they voted on the measure, SCA 6.

"I'm a little testy about the fact that the governor has made a big deal about whether we are here working," said Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica. "I have not missed 20 percent of the time I'm supposed to be here, but the governor has missed 20 percent of the time he has been in office."
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In 1991, during the Los Angeles riots, "Pete Wilson had to take personal command of the National Guard," Green said. "How's Arnold going to do that when he's at the Cannes Film Festival?"

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12649487p-13502924c.html

[chelsea0011]

1. Hey. This governing is" hard work".

[TommyO]

4. Shouldn't it be:

"Governating is hard work?"

[rkc3]

5. Hard work (as defined by George Carlin) is:

Doing something when you'd rather be getting paid for doing something you'd really like to do.

Maybe the gropenator (and dumbya) would rather be doing something else.

[UCLA Dem]

2. he likes being a movie star better.

running the state is harder work that he thought.

[chaumont58]

3. When ever I read anything at all about Scharzengroper

my anger at his in-laws is reawaken. Sargent Shriver was the Dem nominee for VP in 1972. Eunice Kennedy Shriver was supposedly JFK's favorite sister. Good Democrats, really good Democrats. They came out of California and campaigned for the groping SOB, and I for one will never forget or forgive.

[jrthin]

9. I totally agree with you. nt

[Orsino]

6. Does the story say...

...what's important enough to take the governor out of state? I can understand the occasional trip to DC, but a fifth of his time?

Is he moonlighting?

[Rose Siding]

7. He's fundraising from out-of-state donors

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Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Marina Del Rey, noted that the governor has traveled to Washington, D.C., and New York to raise money for his political battles with Democrats. "It does not go unnoticed that some of the trips have been fund-raising trips to fund ballot initiatives that bypass the Legislature," she said.

[Orsino]

8. Wonder how Californians feel...

...about their gov traveling on their nickel to solicit out-of-state money designed to monkey with state legislation?

Delay has taught him well.

[xxqqqzme]

10. no, steroid boy sold his

soul 2 saurove. He is following the neo-con death cult's agenda w/ very little deviation. He's a good little rove-bot.