Not to come as a surprise, the Virginia Republican Party filed a freedom of information act for the travel records of Gov. Kaine’s activities as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. What do you think the VPR might find? Perhaps corporations and other private businesses (gasp) are paying for his travel? Isn’t that what lobbying and donations are all about? Gov. Kaine is kind of digging his own mini ditch by denying the information request at first on the grounds of a security breach (not a really good answer). The Roanoke Times reports:
Nevertheless, the governor has a duty to Virginians beyond just the letter of FOIA. The only way the public can verify that his moonlighting has not interfered with his gubernatorial responsibilities is if it knows where and when he traveled and on whose dime. If big Democratic donors who have business before state agencies have provided free flights, people ought to know.
So Gov. Kaine could either be:
1)flying on someone’s personal dime
2)working on super secret DNC stuff
3)trying to give off the appearance that something weird is going on so that the VRP wastes time on this (I like this one)
4)doing nothing wrong
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what if he is tending to personal matters that he doesn’t want in the public spotlight? i guess that is what you give up when becoming a politician.
He was hiking the same trail that Gov. Sanford of SC is on.
First he was “writing a book, away from his kids”. Then he was hiking. Except now he wasn’t hiking. From here:
On Tuesday, sources told News 4’s Nigel Robertson that a state vehicle is missing and was tracked down, not to the Appalachian Trail, but to the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.
Sources told Robertson that a federal agent spotted Sanford in the airport boarding a plane. Robertson was told that the governor was not accompanied by security detail.
My bet? Secretly gay married to a columbian cabana boy. We shall see…
Turns out, Sanford of SC was actually in Argentina…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/70594.html
I just read that- perhaps he was brushing up on his Tango
Ok so an Argentinian cabana boy, big dif. We all know how these über family values types roll.
/”abstinence makes the church grow fondlers”.
DAMN Belmont Yo nailed it! He was having an affair but with an Argentine woman.
So perhaps he was working on his Tango.
And just as predictably, the fairly imbalanced FOX network labeled him a democrat.
See also: Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter (2 years prior to conversion) etc etc…
What an unfortunate unusual coincidence that keeps happening again and again.
(republican) sanford’s love letters with bullet points
Voice mail is better for that kind of exposition, I have found.
actually he was at mas although i din’t dine with him and his lovely wife and guests, a good time was had by all. now back to Buenos Aires to hang with Mark Sanford and the cast of Chitty Chitty BangBang
p.s. he confirmd why we don’t take reservations as they skipped us the first night without notice only to show up the following eve.