Governorship has its privileges

This originally came from the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, but I happened to come across an AP version of the story first. So here’s the link. The Journal Gazette found that the Governor’s state-paid air travel is up about 45% this campaign year from last year.

Many of the flights were related to duties of his office, including job announcements or damage assessments after tornadoes or flooding, while other trips were taken to push Daniels’ legislative agenda.

However, the mix includes some trips that seem political, including appearances at local parades and festivals and at least five speeches at Lincoln Day dinners, a traditional Republican event, the newspaper reported Sunday after a review of 113 trips over the past 19 months.

Hey, if that means there’s more money available for those super-awesome campaign commercial telling us how excellent the economy really is, then those flights are o.k. in my book. As McCain economic adviser, Phil Graham, said, we’re a nation of whiners, and Mitch is just trying to get us out of our “mental recession.”