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Although I fully support the booing, you have to figure the idea was that the backlash of “Governor Didn’t Care Enough to Show Up” would have been greater than the backlash of “Well duh, of course he got booed.”
I don’t know whether that’s true, but I feel pretty sure that’s the calculus that drove the decision to go.