We’re back to normal now
The bubble candidate
By: Jennifer Granholm, Politico.com
September 24, 2012 10:18 PM EDT
“What happened to the governor bubble?” my 78-year-old mom asked me, a hint of sadness in her voice, on a trip through the airport security lines this year after I was term-limited from office. “Where are the people to help us through TSA?”
“Mom, that was not real life,” I said. “We’re back to normal now.”
For two terms I lived in a protective bubble, like most governors. Governors have 24-hour security, we are driven everywhere, we speed through special lines at the airport. Someone does our cooking, shopping, gardening. Our calls are screened, our mail is answered for us, every detail taken care of.
If governors so choose, it would be easy avoid the unpleasantness of life. Of course, most governors wouldn’t be in office very long if they didn’t make specific, concerted efforts to connect with people’s struggles. Experiencing the unfiltered pain of one’s citizens is, I believe, the most important work a governor must do — the foundation for action.
(More here.)
By: Jennifer Granholm, Politico.com
September 24, 2012 10:18 PM EDT
“What happened to the governor bubble?” my 78-year-old mom asked me, a hint of sadness in her voice, on a trip through the airport security lines this year after I was term-limited from office. “Where are the people to help us through TSA?”
“Mom, that was not real life,” I said. “We’re back to normal now.”
For two terms I lived in a protective bubble, like most governors. Governors have 24-hour security, we are driven everywhere, we speed through special lines at the airport. Someone does our cooking, shopping, gardening. Our calls are screened, our mail is answered for us, every detail taken care of.
If governors so choose, it would be easy avoid the unpleasantness of life. Of course, most governors wouldn’t be in office very long if they didn’t make specific, concerted efforts to connect with people’s struggles. Experiencing the unfiltered pain of one’s citizens is, I believe, the most important work a governor must do — the foundation for action.
(More here.)
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