Mike Cakora - Anglospheric, Jacksonian, Capitalist, Caring, and South Carolinian by Choice; musings on culture, economics, and the fine mess we find ourselves in.
While visiting friends in the Other Carolina last week, a couple, neighbors of ours, was asked the question that seemed to be on everyone’s mind: “Harry, what is going on with that Guv-nuh of yours down thay-yah?”Harry paused for but a second before replying “T’ain’t nothing special in the Palmetto State. Heck, we all do it. Me, I got a honey in Venezuela.”That’s when the fight started…
It’s bad form for public officials, especially executives, to wander off leaving virtually everyone in the dark as to what they are up to wherever they are. Heck, I work seven levels down the rungs of a publicly held corporation and I can’t take a day or more off without coordinating with my boss and peers, arranging for backup, making arrangements with customers, turning on the “out-of-office” feature on my email, etc. You get the idea, you’re in the same boat.
Thus the public believes it has a right to know when the executive they elected is off doing something else. Our governor is not the only guy who’s been criticized for that.
Take a big-city mayor, like the guy who runs our nation’s capital. (Read the rest of the entry…)
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