2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAs governor of Massachusetts, Romney was often missing
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/us/politics/mitt-romney-often-away-when-he-was-governor.html?ref=politicsBOSTON When the ceiling collapsed in the Big Dig tunnel here, Gov. Mitt Romney was at his vacation home in New Hampshire. When the Bush administration warned that the nation was at high risk of a terror attack in December 2003, he was at his Utah retreat. And for much of the time the legislature was negotiating changes to his landmark health care bill, he was on the road.'
Booster
(10,021 posts)courseofhistory
(801 posts)I've been saying and has always been my impression of him. He's an opportunist--nothing more!
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Flew in for a few hours every 2 weeks for photo ops with anti-gay groups.
amborin
(16,631 posts)From the article:
'During Mr. Romneys four-year term as governor of Massachusetts, he cumulatively spent more than a year part or all of 417 days out of the state, according to a review of his schedule and other records. More than 70 percent of that time was spent on personal or political trips unrelated to his job, a New York Times analysis found.
Mr. Romney, now the Republican presidential nominee, took lengthy vacations and weekend getaways. But much of his travel was to lay the groundwork for the presidential ambitions he would pursue in the 2008 election, two years after leaving office.'
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)than folks in any other state.