Did a Republican Governor Snub VP Mike Pence?

[DonViejo]

BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 4/10/18 AT 7:37 AM

Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker says he is too busy to meet with Vice President Mike Pence when the latter arrives in Boston for a fundraiser Tuesday—a move which has been considered a snub by local GOP members.

Baker is set to miss Pence and a fundraiser to raise $500,000 for Trump Victory—a political action committee run by the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee. He won't attend another for Minnesota Representative Erik Paulsen, which Pence is also expected to attend.

Baker told reporters that he will not be meeting with Pence because “my calendar has other stuff on it” Monday afternoon. “I think I'm actually going to be in the South Coast, down in New Bedford, when he’s here,” Baker said. Baker is planning to attend a local Chamber of Commerce dinner instead, a spokesman told the Boston Herald.

“I'm not sending a message,” Baker insisted. Throughout the 2016 election campaign Baker said he wouldn’t vote for Trump, and after the November vote said it was the first time he didn’t cast a ballot in a presidential election. Baker is running for reelection this year.

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http://www.newsweek.com/republican-governor-snubs-vp-mike-pence-visit-878623

[itsrobert]

1. President Pence will remember this snub

When the Governor needs funding for a bridge named after Tom Brady.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Alright, the mention of a Tom Brady Bridge made me laugh out loud!

[CentralMass]

2. Baker is a pretty decent guy.

[NewJeffCT]

3. and, in liberal Massachusetts

a picture of Baker and Pence meeting and shaking hands will be used against him in the general election.

[Cha]

5. As it should be.. Ewwwwww!

gross.. with all the crap that's come down the trump admin pike since 2017.

Yeah, pence is being snubbed by repub gov Baker.

pence out fundraising.. what's his job.. does he even have one?

[NewJeffCT]

6. I think Pence has a say

in the judicial appointments that are sailing through the senate.

[Blue_Adept]

4. Yeah

You and I have touched on this before. He's played things pretty good. Even in a kind of loose sense Romney wasn't bad either, though he tried to push things multiple times and got overridden. But even he kind of kept things within the bounds of what residents expect.

Baker has had a pretty clean run here. Doesn't mean I'd vote for him over a solid Democrat but I also won't trash him on just about anything at the moment.