Richard Wood Running Wild on Safari

Folks, with three weeks left in election season where do you think a candidate for any office needs to be?  One might say going door-to-door.  One might say, making phone calls.  And if you’re a statewide candidate one might think you would want to be, say….in the state!

Such is not the case for Democrat Dick Wood who wants to be the next Superintendent of Public Instruction. In fact, he’s not even in the country.  He’s on safari in Africa!  Yep, you read that right.  Africa.

From the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette:

The rumors had him wearing a khaki outfit, riding in a jeep in the African bush looking for lions and elephants.

Richard Wood, Democratic candidate for Indiana’s superintendent for public instruction, is in Africa, but campaign manager Kathy Dale would not describe the trip as a safari. Wood is in South Africa for two weeks visiting schools, learning about what is going on in education globally, Dale said.

There was some apprehension about Wood being on another continent less than three weeks before the election, but the trip has been planned for more than a year, Dale said.

Don’t let the school line fool you.  Sources inform me that this had been planned for a year, before he was running for Superintendent and after he announced his retirement. This apparently was his retirement trip, and he had been telling people since last fall he was taking a safari.

So Dick Wood leaves his campaign with three weeks to go. I don’t care how far in advance you planned your “two weeks worth of visiting schools”, your running for office. Something either gets bagged. Your trip or your hopes at a higher office.

Guess we know what Dick Wood’s priorities are.

*Update* - Here is Matt Tully talking to Abdul of Abdul in the Morning about Dick Wood baggin’ cheetah’s in the plains of South Africa…I mean, going on Safari.

 

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