Posted on 09/09/2014 4:30:46 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Mary Burke twice debated whether having a job was the thing for her
Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Mary Burke took a two-year break from her career for a “snowboarding sabbatical” and a decade later expressed doubts that she ever wanted to have a full-time job again.
Burke’s career has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that her résumé includes a two-year gap between positions at Trek Bicycle Corporation, which was founded by her father.
After working in Europe for Trek overseeing operations in multiple countries, Burke decided she “needed some time off,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Explanations of what Burke was actually doing from July 1993 to September 1995 vary, largely because Burke’s explanations have varied.
Burke at one point said that, feeling burnt out from her job, she and a group of friends went off to a popular Argentinian mountain resort to snowboard for three months. At another point she said that her time spent in Argentina was because she was “going out with this guy.”
Her actual “snowboarding sabbatical” lasted two months in Argentina, though it remains unclear who she was with.
She then headed to the Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado, where she says she spent her time “traveling and relaxing” and also teaching snowboarding part time for a couple of months.
She even considered going back to school at the University of Colorado in Boulder but ultimately decided not to, and went back to Trek, putting an end to the two year period of snowboarding, traveling, and relaxing.
Burke has put in the work to try to nail down for voters what she actually did during this gap, offering old receipts and passports to show that she is not hiding anything.
However, email records show that this was not the only time Burke considered shedding work responsibilities from her life altogether.
Burke was considered in 2004 after her second stint with Trek to be part of Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s cabinet, but she expressed doubt that she would want a full-time job.
“I do not know at this point whether I will want to re-enter the full-time work force,” wrote Burke in a December 2004 email. “ I would appreciate being kept in mind but I don’t want anyone wasting their time.”
Burke was appointed secretary of commerce by Doyle and accepted the position. She resigned in 2007 citing her desire to “spend more time” on “other interests.”
Burke is currently slightly outpacing Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the polls, according to a Real Clear Politics average of recent polls.
It is unclear whether she will be pleased to win the election, which will involve her assuming the full-time governor position.
To a Wisconsite; If she won and quit three days later, who would be appointed to fill in by law? Some really, really hard left Union thugee or does your Constitution spell it out from Republicans in the legislature? I see this broad as a foil for someone worse.
Most liberals are elitists and believe that only the “other” class should actually have to work.
She is by no means the only one who aspires to this. A significant portion of the Bay Area techie community exists this way.
Take a three or four month contract gig at a staggering hourly rate, then spend the rest of your year snowboarding in the Andes or hanging out on a beach in Goa.
I have even seen resumes were gaps in the timeline were explained with the job title “Slacker”.
I and my friends consume a lot of mtn bikes and bike paraphernalia, like gloves, clothing, etc.
I will be advising all of them to avoid Trek products from here forward. I had no idea they hated America.
Sure, it is not the owner but rather the owner's daughter who is the leftist wastrel, but the apple don't fall far from the tree.
Dad failed in his parenting.
This clown is a typical DIMocRAT. However, given that most DIMocRATs are unemployed, unemployable or slackers (or degenerate government employees), she will get their vote.
First off, she worked for her father in the family business. Can you say Daddy’s little girl?
She got to work and travel overseas selling a quality product to people who probably loved the bikes...
At what point did stress enter into this equation?
If the people elect her as Guv, they will deserve what they get...
“Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Mary Burke took a two-year break from her career for a “snowboarding sabbatical” and a decade later expressed doubts that she ever wanted to have a full-time job again.”
Why she’s just like our “governor,” Jerry the Fairy Brown! He has NEVER held a real job. He has “governed” all of his life. We had to elect Ronald Reagan to “fix” what his father did, then turned around and elected the “prodigal son” who proceeded to undo all the “fixes.”
She’s not dedicated.
Is that really the only way democrats can get a vote, make up lies and smear their opponents and indict sitting governors for doing their jobs?
Yes.
I think the actual statement was more like “pulling women back by the hair” a ridiculous statement.
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