Post by elalacran on Feb 20, 2012 13:03:44 GMT -5
So "Gov." Perry, after spending most of the last half-year attempting to be nominated to run for president has been to his office three times for not more than three hours each time since he threw in the towel?
lubbockonline.com/texas/2012-02-19/report-perry-mostly-absent-governors-office
Should anyone holding an office be permitted to run for another office? How about when running for that office is a full-time job? Hopw about when running for office is a full-time job for a year or even two years? (I am thinking about Kay Bailey Hutcherson and her try at the governorship.)
It bothers me that someone like the president takes time to run for re-election and does so using official time and resources and the bully pulpit.
It bothers me a heck of a lot more when senators and congresspersons and governors basically drop their job to run for president. We ought to require that they resign first.
Now there is a truth hidden in here. That truth is not complimentary to any officeholder. That truth is that most elected officials are figureheads and fund raisers and little more. Congressmen and senators do not read the bills they vote on. Often they do not even negotiate with other congressmen and senators for changes to their own bills but let their staff handle that. Most of the time of a senator or congressperson is spent on fundraising and gladhanding and emphatically not on what we suppose to be their jobs.
So it is with Perry: much of what he does as governor is done by or with the help of staff. That is especially so in Texas, where the governor has less constitutional power than the lieutenant-governor.
If we don't need the governor in his office 9-5, Mon-Fri, then let's get rid of him. And if all we need is a part-time governor, let's lower the pay and cut the benefits.
lubbockonline.com/texas/2012-02-19/report-perry-mostly-absent-governors-office
Should anyone holding an office be permitted to run for another office? How about when running for that office is a full-time job? Hopw about when running for office is a full-time job for a year or even two years? (I am thinking about Kay Bailey Hutcherson and her try at the governorship.)
It bothers me that someone like the president takes time to run for re-election and does so using official time and resources and the bully pulpit.
It bothers me a heck of a lot more when senators and congresspersons and governors basically drop their job to run for president. We ought to require that they resign first.
Now there is a truth hidden in here. That truth is not complimentary to any officeholder. That truth is that most elected officials are figureheads and fund raisers and little more. Congressmen and senators do not read the bills they vote on. Often they do not even negotiate with other congressmen and senators for changes to their own bills but let their staff handle that. Most of the time of a senator or congressperson is spent on fundraising and gladhanding and emphatically not on what we suppose to be their jobs.
So it is with Perry: much of what he does as governor is done by or with the help of staff. That is especially so in Texas, where the governor has less constitutional power than the lieutenant-governor.
If we don't need the governor in his office 9-5, Mon-Fri, then let's get rid of him. And if all we need is a part-time governor, let's lower the pay and cut the benefits.