After a busy day at the State House, he traveled 2 1/2 hours on the Massachusetts Turnpike to an early evening, town-hall-style meeting at the bandstand on Main Street in Great Barrington, two towns away from Richmond, site of the Patrick vacation manse.
For the next 28 days, however, Patrick maintained an extremely light schedule and did not set foot in the State House, according to his daily calendars.
That stretch includes many of the 60 weekdays when his daily calendar was empty during his first two years as governor, indicating that he had no official activities scheduled on those days, according to a Globe review of his schedule.
Wow. What's amazing is that this story actually saw print. I guess the Globe is pissed that Patrick didn't step in to help them out in their love spat with the NYT to save all those union gigs... I mean, it's not exactly like they've been provided anything even remotely resembling adversarial or even neutral coverage of "Cadillac Deval" up to date...
So we have an absentee gov. BFD. In this yutz's case, the more time he's away from Beacon Hill, the better off we all are. He's proposed tax increase after tax increase, raising fees and tolls, gone after law-abiding gun owners with ineffective restrictions, and is best known for nailing down a million dollar book deal while his pet legislation went down in flames in the legislature.
This guy is pitifully out of his league. He's been marginalized completely by the real power brokers, the Speakers of the House and the Majority leaders - all from his own party. Mitt Romney and the weak-kneed RINOs before him were hardly less effective than Patrick - and they were from (allegedly) the Republican party, not the 90%+ Democrats that own Massachusetts.
What does it tell you that Patrick has been MIA for a good chunk of his governorship and no one has missed him?
That is all.
2 comments:
I think the Globe knows that Patrick is done for as soon as the Democrats hold their primary, so no sense going down with that sinking ship.
Or maybe that a conservative like me likes him a heck of a lot more than I liked Romney. Sure Patrick talks a lot of stuff that offends me, and angers me....but Romney actually GOT STUFF DONE....and by "Stuff" I mean "Infrignment on my rights" and "Expansion of an already bloated govenment".
If it was say Mihos vs. Patrick in 2010, Deval DeVille gets my vote!
If there's one thing that Massachusetts democrats have taught me over the years, it's that a governor who spends this much time away from the State House is unfit for duty, and should tender his resignation immediately.
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