Jay Inslee did some extra desperate fundraising leading up to the end of April. In light of his rather dismal finance numbers, we decided to take a look at how exactly our green governor spent his work days during the latter half of April. SPOILER ALERT: He rarely worked.
Without further ado:
On Tuesday, April 12th:
Jay Inslee managed to start his day at 8:45 AM, with a meeting concerning his Clean Air Rule began. That’s quite a feat for our green governor considering he often doesn’t get around to doing his job until 9:30 or later in the morning. However, since he wrapped up his workday at 2:30 PM, we aren’t giving him too much credit.
On Wednesday, April 13th:
Jay Inslee had to attend an event in Spokane on this particular day. So, his day went on for longer than usual. Inslee started work at 9 AM and, between a flight to and from Spokane, concluded his day at 9 PM. Here’s the thing, our green governor took a whopping 6 hours and 25 minutes of “free” or “personal” (read, campaign activities) time — and that doesn’t include his flight times — during the course of the day. So, it’s not like taxpayers were getting their money’s worth.
On Thursday, April 14th and Friday, April 15th:
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Inslee’s day on the 14th was the 45 minutes he spent in meetings concerning the not-to-be methanol plant in Tacoma. Our green governor wrapped up his workday at 3 PM; we assume he was making up for the extra work he thought he did the previous day.
On the 15th, Inslee spent a sizeable chunk of the day – 3 hours and 50 minutes – on “personal time” — we assume he decided his campaign business was more important than the business of Washington State. He went home at 5:15 PM.
On Monday, April 18th:
After arriving at his office around 9 AM, Inslee had a 15 minute meeting then proceeded to spend the rest of the morning (2 hours and 30 minutes) on “personal time.” Inslee then had another half-hour of personal time, a couple more meetings (including one discussing a Western State Hospital bill with his staff). He went home at 4:45 PM.
On Tuesday, April 19th:
Our green governor’s day proved to be a bit more strenuous then what is typical — though, least anyone worry about his health, he started his day at 9:15 AM, had plenty of “personal time” breaks in between meetings, and was out late because of campaign meetings/travel time back to his home on Bainbridge Island. On this day, Inslee recorded his disastrous “Earth Day” video, met with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians about the proposed methanol plant in Tacoma (which news outlets also reported as cancelled this same day), met with the Western Hospital Executive Team, and then met with the United Food and Commercial Workers Board (scheduled as “personal time” since it was a campaign stop).
On Wednesday, April 20th:
Between travel time and personal time, Jay Inslee — quite literally — did nothing of note until 3 PM when he had a 15-minute meeting with his staff concerning the city of Tacoma. He then spent the rest of his day on campaign business (he received the endorsement of the Sierra Club) then went back to his Bainbridge Island home.
On Thursday, April 21st:
Jay Inslee managed to fit in a 15-minute speech at the Bering Sea Fisheries Conference (we imagine attendees were grateful he did not go much longer) before 9 AM. He then appears to have spent an hour-and-a-half preparing for a phone call with — surprise, surprise — California billionaire and “green” hypocrite Tom Steyer. After almost four hours of “personal time,” Inslee attended a campaign fundraising event before wrapping up his day at 7:30 PM.
On Friday, April 22nd:
Apparently, in celebration of Earth Day, our green governor (very literally) did absolutely no work. His weekend also involved virtually no work.
On Monday, April 25th:
After a strenuous three-day weekend of doing very little, Inslee began work at 10:30 AM. With 2 hours and 30 minutes of “personal time” mixed in between various events, Inslee wrapped up his workday at 5 PM.
On Tuesday, April 26th
With an 8:30 AM start to his day, one might assume that our green governor got up thinking that he would be more productive then usual… he wasn’t. With three hours of personal time sprinkled in his schedule, Inslee called it a day at 4 PM. He then attended various campaign fundraising events. Interestingly enough, Inslee did have multiple phone conversations with spokesperson Jaime Smith concerning disgraced Democrat State Auditor Troy Kelley. Presumably, they discussed how Inslee should respond to his trail… apparently, they settled on no real response at all.
On Wednesday, April 27th and Thursday, April 28th:
The first meeting Jay Inslee took part in on the 27th was at 10:30 AM when he showed up to the Results Washington Meeting in order to discuss “Goal 3: Sustainable Energy and a Clean Environment.” Our green governor didn’t do much better the following day. On Thursday, Inslee started his workday at 1:30 PM. After working a little less than 3 hours, Inslee called it a day.
On Friday, April 29th:
Our green governor appears to believe that he does not have to work on Fridays because, well, he doesn’t. Inslee spent every hour of his day on “personal time” which, in all likelihood, meant he begged supporters for money all day in hopes of meeting whatever dismal fundraising goal his handlers set for him.
Inslee spent his weekend attending meeting with various unions and attending a Mariners game.
As is typical, Inslee did not work 40 hours in a single week leading up to the end of April. His lack of a work ethic is truly astonishing.
“His lack of a work ethic is truly astonishing.”
And yet, your man lost to him. That’s gotta hurt.
No not really. What it does show is the lack of character and the make up of Insley supporters.
Actually, this whole series of stalkeriffic posts shows nicely how embittered sore losers lack the character to get over the fact that they lost. (This site is a production by two alumni from McKenna’s failed gubernatorial campaign.)
Oh, come on, tensie, are you really trying to justify how lazy and obtuse Jay Inslee is? Sore losers… what we really want to know is how this guy can really serve the interests of the people of Washington State when he spends most of his daily schedule in “personal” or “free” time carrying out political activities and fund raising with his butt buddies, like Tom Steyer? In a word he can’t and is actually demonstrating how totally incompetent and over his head he is as titular governor of the state. If what you say about this site is true, that it’s run by former associates of Rob McKenna, that doesn’t change the facts about Inslee. Now go troll some place else.
“…are you really trying to justify how lazy and obtuse Jay Inslee is?”
No, I’m saying that losing to a “lazy and obtuse” fellow, if that’s indeed an accurate description of Inslee, must hurt one heck of a lot more than losing to an industrious and sharp fellow. Since the founders of this site bear some responsibility for McKenna’s loss to Inslee, their creepy focus on Inslee’s schedule may indicate how much agonizing hurt and stinging pain they still feel from McKenna’s loss.
…he spends most of his daily schedule in “personal” or “free” time carrying out political activities and fund raising with his butt buddies,
While your deeply intense and personal envy of Inslee for having rich “butt buddies” comes as no surprise, it is still amusing you believe Shift’s stalking account of his day. What has Shift ever posted to earn such credibility?
If what you say about this site is true, that it’s run by former associates of Rob McKenna,
The identities and motives of the anonymous posters who feed you these “facts” has never been a factor in your evaluation of said “facts,” eh?
Tensie, you wouldn’t know a fact if it slapped up along side your pinhead. Now just go away and quit trolling this website, like a good little, lick spittle, liberal.
It says more about the Democrat voters more then anything. They are uniformed and ignorant. They check off the D’s on their ballots not having a clue about any of the candidates. The undocumented democrats can’t read English but the know about the D’s on the ballots.
It says more about the Democrat voters more then anything. They are uniformed and ignorant.
And yet, the commenters here, most of whom swallow and regurgitate uncritically the attacks posted by anonymous contributors at a site owned by folks whom Inslee defeated — they don’t generally identify as Democrats, now do they?
Tell us truly now: why do you think they are so pathetically gullible to the most transparently groundless of hyper-partisan attacks?
I find this log to be highly illuminating and would like to see such details applied to Congress; “Dialing For Dollars” 60 Min CBS News detailed the daily fund raising while Congressional Reps are in DC; 2-4 hours during business hours each day to raise funds for party and self; Time=money as does speech (CitUni), making time out of the office time that is unavailable to constituents or research. Worth doing whether pro or anti- candidate /Officer. Thanks.L
inslee is a crooked POS