AP Exclusive: Va. executive mansion in disarray (Bob McDonnell emails)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The National Governors Association convention was fast approaching, promising an important stage for her politically ascendant husband. Organizers were pressing Gov. Bob McDonnell for details on his wife's part of the agenda, and he felt she was being distracted.
A series of emails from late 2011 to early 2012, obtained by The Associated Press, show that nearly halfway into Bob McDonnell's term, his wife was struggling with the position into which she'd been thrust.
A senior aide overheard the governor tell first lady Maureen McDonnell that "he needed her to make some decisions on NGA" and that her team should "find ways to take stress off of her."
When the governor told Janet Polarek, now Kelly, that the staff needed "to get MM's schedule under control," she replied that his wife simply had taken on too many "projects" and needed to "scale them back." Kristen Paynter Kaplan, the first lady's senior aide, doubted that would help much.
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