Governor Jan Brewer – MIA
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer has taken a nearly week-long out-of-state work trip that was shrouded in secrecy Monday as she skipped an event to certify election ballots and her spokesman refused to disclose her location.
Brewer spokesman Matthew Benson said in a brief email to The Associated Press that Brewer was unavailable to participate in the general election canvass Monday morning because she was out of the state on official business.
“That is all I can disclose at this time,” Benson added.
He later reiterated that during a brief phone interview during which he said he could not respond to several questions about Brewer’s whereabouts.
I would think that the people of Arizona have a right to know where their Governor is and what official business has taken her out of state. Can anyone come up with a legitimate reason for all the secrecy?
Comment by puck on 4 December 2012 at 10:18 am:
Hiking the Appalachian Trail?
Update: I am apparently about the four millionth person to make that joke. Well, it did come to mind. Speculation on dKos includes rehab and plastic surgery.
Comment by cassandra_m on 4 December 2012 at 10:39 am:
Well. No one has seen Rep, Jesse Jackson, Jr. since he resigned, either, right? Could be connected!
Comment by socialistic ben on 4 December 2012 at 10:47 am:
wouldnt THAT be a fun scandal!? Frau Brewer involved with a….. YOU KNOW ….democrat.
Comment by Another Mike on 4 December 2012 at 10:54 am:
Isn’t Arizona better off with her out of state?
Comment by mediawatch on 4 December 2012 at 10:58 am:
Well, Gov. Minner once took a work trip to Canada in a private plane and didn’t tell anyone about it. So there is some precedent.
Perhaps she has a secret meeting with Fisker. Or in Mexico negotiating a treaty on immigration.
Comment by Jason330 on 4 December 2012 at 11:25 am:
Hiking the Appalachian Trail?
Apparently I’m the four millionth and first person to make that joke.
Comment by jim center on 4 December 2012 at 11:27 am:
She’s getting cosmetic surgery. All of the “spare” skin will be stuck into her right index finger so she won’t still resemble the Wicked Witch of the West!
Comment by Jason330 on 4 December 2012 at 11:31 am:
What if Jan Brewer and Scott Walker had sex and got pregnant and they named the baby Scott Brewer-Walker and that baby grew and was a necrophiliac and had sex with the corpse of Grover Norquist?
that would be gross.
Comment by Delaware Dem on 4 December 2012 at 12:09 pm:
Some one said on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir show yesterday that she is considering a presidential run in 2016. How hilarious.
Maybe the aliens called her home.
Comment by Jason330 on 4 December 2012 at 1:05 pm:
My scenario is far more plausible.
Comment by Don't Blink on 4 December 2012 at 2:35 pm:
Unnamed source says Betty Ford…
Comment by Joanne Christian on 4 December 2012 at 6:32 pm:
Wow. Passages in Malibu looks more fun. Betty Ford is so passe’. Republican discount rate?
Seriously, whatever it is, I wish the best for her state or her personally–whichever it is.
Comment by xstryker on 4 December 2012 at 10:41 pm:
Iowa?
Comment by Liberal Elite on 5 December 2012 at 2:49 am:
Maybe she was summoned by the head of the GOP….
…Roger Ailes.