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Saturday, June 27, 2009
It's 10 a,m. do you know where your governor is?

All the brouhaha over South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's unscheduled trip to Argentina for a rendezvous with a girlfriend has gotten people wondering what their governor's up to - even during working hours.

Fact is, most of the time we don't know.

So the Associated Press dispatched reporters in 40 states to try to find out what the governor was doing at a certain moment and ran into roadblocks in almost every one of them, including Pennsylvania. Reporters were routinely told that the governor's private schedules was off limits, citing privacy and security concerns, and that they would have to file open records requests to receive them.

The staff of Gov. Rendell, who was just leaving Harrisburg after a state budget meeting, did not provide AP with a schedule. (While Rendell's staff puts out daily calendar of public events, it never publishes information about non-public events and only rarely provides information about national media appearances.)

We did learn that Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley - at the time his office was contacted - was in New York fishing with his son, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe was at the dentist and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was visiting troops in Kosovo.

Click here for Philly.com's politics page.

Posted by Amy Worden @ 6:14 PM  Permalink | 2 comments
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Posted 04:57 AM, 06/28/2009
FJG JR
Check his EZ pass account,he can't deny us that, we pay it. He's probably "On the way to Cape May".
Posted 11:02 AM, 06/28/2009
merrihart
He'd better d*** well be at his desk, making that budget work. I do not want July 17th to be my last paycheck for the foreseeable future! Darned politics.
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Commonwealth Confidential gives you regularly updated coverage of the state legislature, the governor and the workings of the state bureaucracy. It is written by the political reporters in the Inquirer's Harrisburg bureau, based right in the statehouse.

Mario F. Cattabiani (left) has covered state government and politics from Harrisburg since 1994, the last six years for the Inquirer. In July, he was ranked by PolitickerPa.com as No. 1 among the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania.

Angela Couloumbis (center) joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1998, and has covered government and politics in New Jersey, Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania, including Gov. Rendell’s 2006 race against former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann.

Amy Worden (right) joined the Inquirer in 2000 and has covered governors, gubernatorial races, U.S. Senate races and three presidential campaigns. When not covering politics she can be found filing dispatches from disaster scenes or digging into local stories of national import.
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