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Basements are flooded from P-town to Topsfield, bridges are out, crucial legislation is stalled and the crime rate is up, but none of this has slowed Gov. Mitt Romney’s traveling political circus.

The former Utah resident was back in his home state earlier this week before he hit sunny California to spend time with his sons and raise money for his commonwealth political action committee.

Today, he’s set to travel to Arizona to speak at the Trunk and Tusk dinner, a GOP fund-raiser with tickets ranging from $275 to $5,000. Tomorrow he heads back to Utah until Tuesday.

Democrats, fuming over his latest out-of-state tour, criticized Romney for mugging for news cameras at a damaged Route 128 bridge earlier this week before heading to the airport.

“While towns in eastern Massachusetts are struggling to recover from devastating floods, Governor Do Nothing can only free up enough time in his busy schedule for a quick photo op before he heads to the West Coast to woo Republican donors,” said Cyndi Roy, spokeswoman for the state Democratic party. “Mitt Romney has made a complete mockery of the governorship.”