FLASHBACK: If 90 Percent of Life is Showing Up Greg Brower…
Las Vegas, NV – Yesterday, in response to his chances of winning a full Senate term plunging faster than Mitt Romney making a $10,000 bet, appointed Nevada Senator Greg Brower told the Las Vegas Sun that voters want a “pragmatic problem solver” to represent them in the Senate. But considering that even Republican congressional candidates like Barbara Cegavske have criticized Brower for not - well - doing his job, we’re not sure what Brower’s definition of “pragmatic problem solver” is.
Certainly it isn’t someone whose party leaders had to sit “down for a talking-to about his notable absences from committee hearings & floor debates."
We also don’t think it is someone who has “developed a routine of taking extended breaks after being marked present or leaving early while his colleagues on the Education or Health and Human Services committees work late into the evening.”
It probably isn’t someone who refuses “to comment on whether he had ever left committee to attend to campaign business,” then misses “about two hours of an education hearing Wednesday night to speak at a Republican women’s club event in Sparks.”
And we’re not sure if a “pragmatic problem solver” is someone whose "extended breaks became most apparent during two lengthy meetings of the entire Senate to hear the public schools and higher education budgets.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.