Char-O: Where’s Bev? All we can say is it’s someplace warm

Charlotte Observer editors say “last week’s ‘jobs governor’ is this week’s vacation governor.”

Gov. Bev Perdue has run off and we don’t blame her a bit. Who wouldn’t want to get away from a growing list of problems – including a worsening state unemployment rate of 11.2 percent, worst in three decades, a projected $250 million hole in Medicaid funding and some festering ethical problems that don’t seem to improve.

Perdue is on a week’s vacation, the News & Observer’s Sarah Ovaska reports, but Perdue wouldn’t say where she was going. All Perdue would say is that she’s “going on a vacation to a nice warm place.” …

But Republicans were raking Perdue over the fires for it nonetheless, driving home the point that for all her attempts to clean up politics in Raleigh and raise ethical standards, Democrats keep getting indicted, cited, or derided for one kind of appalling behavior or another.

The governor recently claimed that she was known as, and would continue to be known as, the “jobs governor.” Maybe so, but we wonder. Her decision to take a week off in a nice warm place in the midst of one of the state’s shakier weeks in modern economic and political history may have been a relief to the governor. But it has more potential to define her image than overwrought claims about jobs. She might want to hurry on back to the hot seat.

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