Is there a count of days spent on fundraising?

[July]

Every time I turn around I read about Bush attending a fundraiser (going back quite a long way). Of the total number of days in office (cough), how many have included a fundraiser? How many have been spent in Crawford, Kennebunkport, Camp David, or abroad? How many short "work" days are left?

I think I've read somewhere that there's a guy who keeps track of everything Bush does. Anyone have more information?

[Racenut20]

1. Would love to see this also.

[leftofthedial]

2. all of them

fundraising every day

[KoKo]

3. Remember how Clinton was trashed for using Air Force One at thousands

of dollars an hour for giving fund-raising speeches? And, seems to me Chimp has been flying around collecting money since just after 9/11.
I was thinking about this the other day and wondering where the outcry is from the Libertarians and RW'ers who went after Clinton.

All Chimp does is fundraise. It's disgusting. But, I've not seen any figures on it.

[KoKo]

4. Here Ya' Go! From USA Today...and there's more on Google Search under

Bush Fundraising Costs, if you do a search.

Closet campaign trips stick taxpayers with stiff tab
Four years ago, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were dashing across the nation in Air Force One and Two raising millions for Democrats largely at taxpayer expense, Republicans in Congress cried foul. Rightly so. The GOP-controlled House even passed legislation in 1999 to limit how much the government pays when members of an administration travel for political purposes.

But the proposal died in the Senate. Now President Bush and Vice President Cheney are not only copying the behavior of predecessors from both parties, they are also setting records for publicly subsidized political travel. Taxpayers have underwritten Bush trips to 32 states, where he has raised more than $140 million for Republicans. On Tuesday, he addressed GOP rallies in Pennsylvania and Maine. Today, he goes to the Carolinas and Alabama. He plans to hit eight more states before Election Day.

With their man in the White House, Republicans are largely silent. And Democrats, who brushed off criticism of Clinton for misusing public
funds, are howling about Bush's travel, just as they did about his father's trips a decade ago.

While the hypocrisy isn't new, it exposes a broader contradiction. Lawmakers of both parties frequently ridicule calls for publicly financing election campaigns to curb the clout of special-interest money in politics. But as incumbents, much of their political activity is already subsidized by taxpayers.

more with #'s.......http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=4407305&fb=Y&partnerID=1660

[RamboLiberal]

5. And now the greedy bastard and Pickles are both doing

separate fundraisers to rake in even more cash.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/10/elec04.prez.bush.campaign.ap/index.html

[RamboLiberal]

6. Ho Ho look at this little gem I found on a Repug

grousing about the Clinton travels. Where the hell are the Dem memos doing this?

By U.S. Senator Larry Craig

1998

I thought it would be important to do a short reality check on our President. ThePresident last week said Congress is a do-nothing Congress. They have not done their work. Why has Congress not done itswork? You know, when he made that comment about us--and I have been here hour after hour in committee meeting aftercommittee meeting, here on the floor, day after day for the balance of the year--I thought, you know, Mr. President, youme a little bit. It is time to do a reality check. So I sent staff scurrying. We compiled the President's travel log, and what I am about to report to you is the travel log of President Bill

Clinton.

For a man who is bent on remaining in the White House, President Clinton sure spends a lot of time away from the WhiteHouse. What you are about to hear is an analysis of how much time he has spent away, and why his people have not been onthe Hill, why they have not been working with us, and now in the closing hours of a Congress he is either threatening a veto or threatening that he might just have to shut down Government to awaken us. Mr. President, let's do a bit of a reality check.

Last year, President Clinton broke the Presidential record for foreign travel with his 27th trip abroad. Like the EnergizerBunny, he has continued to keep on going and going and going. This year so far he has logged 41 days in 11 countries--11different foreign countries. Some say he is traveling in foreign countries to keep his mind off domestic problems. I would notwant to make that assertion. What I do know is that the President has now broken all-time Presidential travel records with32 trips abroad, more than any other president ever. Mr. President, you are out breaking records.

However, just because President Clinton is not on foreign soil all the time doesn't mean he is in the White House. Bill Clintonalso likes to travel around the country as well. He is particularly fond of combining both domestic travel and campaignfundraisers, with at least 37 trips which include fundraisers just through this year, 1998, and there are at least 14 morefundraising events scheduled for October, according to reports. Stay

tuned as I go down through this report, because you willfind an anomaly between official travel and fundraising travel and what it is costing the taxpayers and maybe why he needs alittle bit of supplemental spending.

All told, the President has spent almost half of 1997, 149 days, as well as over half of 1998 so far, 155 days, outside ofWashington, DC. Hello, Mr. President, we are trying to get our work done here. You criticize us for being a do-nothingCongress? Mr. President, where have you been?

http://www.lincolnheritage.org/Articles/The_Lincoln_Log__Article_Searc/Lincoln_Log_Articles_since_199/Lincoln_Log__1997__Governmant_/PRESIDENTIAL_TRAVEL/presidential_travel.html