{"id":146,"date":"2015-04-20T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coppercommando.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:51:43","slug":"bullock-is-running-in-boston-instead-of-serving-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Bullock is Running in Boston Instead of Serving in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Legislature in final days, we&#8217;re trying to negotiate state budget with his staff, and the Gov is running Boston Marathon? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mtpol?src=hash\">#mtpol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mtleg?src=hash\">#mtleg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Knudsen (@RepKnudsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepKnudsen\/status\/590216223574532096\">April 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Governor Bullock made front page news today for running the Boston Marathon. We\u2019re sure glad the Governor is staying in shape and taking some time for himself while the Legislature is in the home stretch of budget negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature is in the last 10 days of the 90 day session and budget negotiations are coming down to the wire. This is where the so-called rubber meets the road \u2013 and we\u2019re not talking about the Governor\u2019s tennis shoes hitting the Massachusetts pavement. Bullock has been consistently\u00a0threatening to veto the budget or bring the Legislature back into a special session, and that all depends on how the budget negotiations pan out. This is arguably the most important week of the 2015 Legislature, and the governor\u00a0missing in action, forgoing his job to go for a run on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the governor frequently\u00a0ditches Helena to raise dark money for his Democratic Governor\u2019s Association (DGA) buddies and for his re-election campaign. We can only assume that he\u2019ll schedule some fundraising during his time on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is the governor sending in his place to negotiate our state\u2019s $10 billion budget while he gets some exercise in Boston? With so much on the line, we can only hope he\u2019s got his best people on it. We thought that this was important enough that he would want to be part of it, so the news that he\u2019s across the country is doubly shocking.<\/p>\n<p>If Bullock was as serious about his job\u00a0and budget negotiations as he was his fitness passions, couldn\u2019t he have waited five more days to run in Clinton Montana\u2019s 10K <a href=\"http:\/\/cougarchase.wikidot.com\">Cougar Chase<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislature in final days, we&#8217;re trying to negotiate state budget with his staff, and the Gov is running Boston Marathon? #mtpol #mtleg \u2014 Austin Knudsen (@RepKnudsen) April 20, 2015 Governor Bullock made front page news today for running the Boston Marathon. We\u2019re sure glad the Governor is staying in shape and taking some time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}