Kentucky Repuke Governor takes a limo for his 500ft commute home

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http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/14897388.htm

Fletcher rides a few hundred feet home

BUT KENTUCKIANS URGED TO WALK MORE
By Roger Alford
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - Under a blue Kentucky sky, birds sing from the boughs of the oaks and magnolias on the Capitol lawn. People walk their dogs. Joggers pass by.

Gov. Ernie Fletcher finishes a day at the office, but instead of walking through the idyllic scene across the street to the Governor's Mansion, he gets into a Lincoln Town Car to be chauffeured to his door.

In Kentucky, the lawns of the Capitol and the mansion are separated only by a narrow tree-shaded street, but Fletcher routinely rides to and from his office. In the meantime, his administration is encouraging Kentuckians to walk more as part of a statewide fitness initiative to combat obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The administration has begun running radio announcements calling on residents to walk or bike more.

The Kentucky governor makes no apologies for riding to work.

"I think that's been a tradition for a long time," he said. "That's what security likes."

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And from Daily Kos - the communte of other governors:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/26/131312/665


Across the country, several governors who live near state Capitols routinely walk to work. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack sometimes jogs the three miles from the Capitol to his home. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer walks, with his dog Jag, seven blocks to his office. And Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn routinely walked the 10 blocks to his office before he had hip replacement surgery.

Like Fletcher, Govs. Chris Gregoire in Washington state, Rick Perry in Texas and Haley Barbour in Mississippi routinely ride to work from their homes next door.

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1. ride to work

Sounds like a great idea, that is if you have a job,or money for gas!!!!!

[NoPasaran]

2. Governor Goodhair would walk to work

But he's not allowed to cross Eleventh Street.

[Pab Sungenis]

3. He's not?

What if his mommy holds his hand?