Shift has pointed out throughout this week the various Democrats’ public policy “wars” – on transportation, jobs, etc. Today, we return to an unfortunately familiar topic, the extreme laziness of Jay Inslee.
Public records show that Inslee spends most of his time as governor of our state not actually working — unless, of course, it’s for his re-election bid or his campaign donors’ liberal agenda. In our continued efforts to hold our green governor accountable, we bring you another installment of Inslee’s “work” habits (which means working as little as possible while drawing a public paycheck).
Without further ado:
Monday, June 13th:
Inslee’s schedule was filled with “Free”, “Personal Time”, and “Out of the office” time. He did not have an official activity all day.
Tuesday, June 14th:
After an exhausting start of his week, Inslee started this day at 8 AM with a conference call briefing with his executive team and the state Department of Health and Human Services. Apparently, they discussed the Western State Hospital. The phone call lasted half an hour. Inslee’s next meeting was via phone with his advisors at 9:20 AM — the phone call lasted 20 minutes.
The rest of his day is filled with “personal time” until a 15 minute phone call with Iowa Governor Terry Branstad at 4:30 PM, to personally invite Inslee to a July National Governors Association meeting — a courtesy Branstad was likely extending to every governor.
Inslee did not work the rest of the day. In total, he “governed” a whole 1 hour and 5 minutes.
Wednesday, June 15th:
Inslee started his day with a 15 minute meeting with Chief of Staff David Postman at 8 AM. It wasn’t until 3:15 PM that Inslee had any other official business scheduled — that was for a 30-minute conference call with his executive team. From 4 PM to 4:50 PM, Inslee took care of some ceremonial business — including a video recording for a scholarship foundation. Then, from 5 PM to 5:30 PM, Inslee prepped for and conducted an interview with the ultra-liberal blog, The Stranger.
Other than finishing the video he started making earlier for 15 minutes, Inslee wrapped up his day at 6 PM.
Our green governor managed to put in 2 hours and 20 minutes of public work this day.
Thursday, June 16th
Inslee started his day with a quick meeting with Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby at 9:20 AM. The meeting lasted 15 minutes. Then, our green governor managed to work from 10 AM to 1:30 PM (a whole 3.5 hours).
Alas, his work streak didn’t last long. He was off for a haircut at 1:40 PM.
Inslee then came back to the office to work on communications for an hour at 2 PM. And, after taking an hour of “personal time,” he visited the Services for the Blind in Seattle. That visit lasted 30 minutes.
Inslee filled the rest of his day with campaign business. He worked a total of 4 hours and 15 minutes, his busiest day of the week on behalf of Washington State!
Friday, June 17th
Inslee started his day at noon with a 15 minute phone call with a policy advisor. He then filled his day with more “personal time” until 3 PM – 4 PM, when he managed to fit in two 30 minute phone calls with policy advisors (the first on trains and Monsanto, and the second on education. At 4 PM, Inslee met with the Washington Education Association for 30 minutes — no doubt they discussed his re-election and whether the WEA would be putting $1 million into his campaign, as the union did in 2012.
Inslee did no public business the rest of the day. In total, our green governor worked 1 hour and 45 minutes to close out his “work” week.
Saturday and Sunday, June 18th-19th
And, as usual, Inslee took the weekend off.
Inslee’s total “governing” time for the week was 9 hours and 25 minutes.
Once again, that’s your green governor, at “work.”
Rodger Ferdinand says
I can do that.
tensor says
So, assuming Shift has correctly described Gov. Inslee’s schedule (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…), how is this worse than wasting taxpayer money pursuing a hard-right partisan agenda through the courts, losing every time? Because that was his opponent’s claim to fame.
(That, and having been UW Student Body President. Such great accompishments Mr. McKenna had to recommend him…)
Biff says
Shift didn’t “describe” anything, comrade. Shift cited a public record, not that you could tell the difference if it smacked you in the head, (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…)
So, what you’re saying is Greenie doing the State’s official work an arduous 9 hours and 25 minutes in an entire week is better than the Washington Attorney General joining 40% of the nation’s state attorney’s general in a Supreme Court Suit to determine the constitutionality of a new ordinance.
What happened to your quote from 6/8/16?:
“The principle of judicial review ensures citizens have redress (via the courts) to force the government to behave constitutionally”
To a thinking person who isn’t a hyper-partisan leftist, (not you on either count) it seems Attorney General McKenna was doing his job representing the people of Washington. A job that has a whole more to do with “the principle of judicial review” than explaining away the non-existent section of the Washington State Constitution that gives the hard-left Washington State Supreme Court the authority to fine the Washington State Legislature (essentially the citizens of Washington fining themselves) $100,000 per day.
(That and the fact that Greenie wasn’t even Student Body President.of his preschool to recommend him…)
tensor says
…than the Washington Attorney General joining 40% of the nation’s state attorney’s general in a Supreme Court Suit to determine the constitutionality of a new ordinance.
Yes, the suit was already being paid for by other taxpayers. What did adding our tax money to that failure do, exactly? Did McKenna cause the suit to lose harder, or something? Or was it just a complete waste of Washington state taxpayer money? Either way, it told us how poor Attorney General McKenna’s legal judgment really was, so we denied him a promotion.
Biff says
“Yes, the suit was already being paid for by other taxpayers”
That’s the way you National (Democratic) Socialists roll. “somebody else is paying for it”.
Even if you could cite a source of the actual extra costs of the Attorney General doing the job he was elected to do, arguing a suit before the Supreme Court, your position is still a really lame deflection to cover the epic failure of Greenie’s “work” habits, doing the state’s business a strenuous 9 hours and 25 minutes for an entire week, followed up by an even more brutal week working a whopping 4 hours and 45 minutes. If he had a real job, that wouldn’t even be considered part-time, it would classified as casual employment.
Better stick to the Spokane Freeway as a distraction.
tensor says
Even if you could cite a source of the actual extra costs…
Sure. Washington state’s constitution requires elected officials to be paid for their times in office. Are you suggesting Attorney General McKenna violated our state’s constitution? Because it would not be the first time, as our state’s Supreme Court has ruled.
… doing the job he was elected to do, arguing a suit before the Supreme Court…
He was also supposed to determine if the suit had merit before he used our tax money and our state’s prestige to support it. As usual for him, the court in question completely disagreed with his judgment.
Now, to be fair, like a court, I’m using legal and constitutional principles in my judgment. You and Mr. McKenna might be using Shift’s principle, “Does this use taxpayer money to advance a rabidly partisan agenda which was rejected by real voters in real elections?” The answer was still no, but if you guys give points for trying, then McKenna was a success. By your standards.
Biff says
“Washington state’s constitution requires elected officials to be paid for their times in office”
Good thing for Greenie he doesn’t get paid by the hour. After a grueling 4 3/4 hour work week, he’d probably have to go on food stamps. That would be great for our state’s prestige.
tensor says
So, energetically wasting our state’s money and prestige on total nationwide failure is your preferred option?
Biff says
My preferred option would be a governor who spends more time governing the state than I spent as a 10 year old on my paper route.
tensor says
Maybe he works smarter, not harder, than you did?
Biff says
“Maybe he works smarter, not harder, than you did?”
Finally, after 3 1/2 years, we might have a certifiable accomplishment from Greenie. Maybe he works smarter than a 4th grader. I’m seeing a campaign ad coming. The (D) after his name is the only real qualification you need, so this accomplishment is just icing on the cake.