Posted on 09/13/2010 3:37:34 AM PDT by driftdiver
ALLAHASSEE — In his final months as governor, Charlie Crist is phoning it in — literally.
As his U.S. Senate campaign shifts into high gear, Crist’s official daily work schedule shows him spending less and less time as governor, and more and more time checking in with his aides from the campaign trail.
Crist’s schedule for the past month shows no official events on 11 weekdays and only one event on six other days.
A day-by-day review shows that even on most days his schedule showed him working, he did not have a crowded calendar.
On Aug. 3, he attended one event, a tourism roundtable in Fort Lauderdale — one of only two events in the past six weeks focusing on Florida’s economic problems.
The next day, Crist’s sole public event was a visit to Miami Jewish Health Systems. The day after that, he conducted site visits of two facilities in St. Petersburg and Sarasota, and the following day, Aug. 6, his only official event was a press conference in Orlando. On 11 days, the only item of official business was a telephone call to Shane Strum, his chief of staff. He met with heads of executive branch agencies Sept. 2, the first such meeting since July 21.
This from a governor who four years ago used an empty chair to symbolize missed votes in Congress by his Democratic opponent, Jim Davis. In that 2006 campaign, Crist promised Floridians: “I’ll work for you every day.”
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Florida needs to rid itself of this waste.
No, no—he’s like Obama when he ran for president while senator, an example of the can-do type who’s hip to the latest technology and can multitask, which shows his ability to take on this new challenge, don’t ya see?
I didn’t know jackasses worked on their tans.
Meanwhile here Blumenthal continues to do his atty. general job while running for the Senate and getting free publicity for his grandstanding. He should do the honorable thing and quit like Bob McDonnell did when he ran for gov. of VA last year.
“Incumbent candidates are always accused of ignoring their office while they run for another office.”
Because most of them do ignore their office. Crist is taking it to the extreme.
ALLAHASSEE, NOACATTASSEE.
ok so I missed the T when I cut-n-pasted. Thank you, that adds value to the thread.
He’s never governed. He’s always looking for the next way to one up himself on the teet of the taxpayers.
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