This is so blatant it’s kind of breathtaking:
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has hired a veteran political strategist from Walla Walla, Washington, and put him on the state payroll.
Lance James Henderson, 51, who last worked for Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s re-election campaign in 2014, was hired last month as Morrisey’s deputy chief of staff, a newly created position at the Attorney General’s Office.
Morrisey eliminated an investigator’s job in his Consumer Protection Division to make way for Henderson’s job, personnel records show. Half of Henderson’s $99,500 salary will be paid with monies from the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Recovery Fund, which finances consumer protection activities.
Henderson has never practiced law. He’s been a campaign consultant to politicians for the past 25 years, specializing in field operations and building voter databases. Politicians and their campaign operatives use the voter files to track vote habits and urge likely voters to support specific candidates and go to the polls.
On his resume posted on his LinkedIn.com page, Henderson lists these areas of expertise: “strategy, message and branding, management and organization, media relations, direct and digital marketing, fundraising, research and targeting.”
On Friday, Henderson took part in a West Virginia Republican Party conference call to discuss a possible protest of President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Charleston Wednesday, according to two GOP officials who were on the call.
Morrisey never advertised the deputy chief of staff position on the attorney general’s website or on conservativejobs.com — two places where Morrisey’s office typically posts job openings. The office doesn’t have a chief of staff.
“Hiring a political operative at a huge salary on the public’s nickel is an inexcusable breach of trust and ethics,” said Chris Regan, vice chairman of the state Democratic Party. “Patrick Morrisey has hit a new low in diverting $100,000 in taxpayer money directly to his political campaign.”
This isn’t Morrisey’s first transgression, as the Vice Chair of the Democratic Party, Chris Regan, points out at his excellent blog that you should be reading.
Roger Moore
Isn’t there some kind of option like suing him?
dmsilev
Oh boy.
First one I looked at:
Thoughtful Today
gaaaah…
Needs highlighting:
[sputter]
Brachiator
Shit, this kind of thing is a Monday morning in New Jersey state government.
Mike in NC
So “conservativejobs.com” is a real thing? Do they have a listing there for a new Speaker of the U.S. House?
rikyrah
This is who they are.
Period.
benw
@dmsilev: Just for fun I checked for liberaljobs.com but nope. Just like liberals, too disorganized to have an ideological job clearinghouse website. The left in disarray!
rikyrah
I’m with Thoughtful Today:
Because, of course, West Virginia doesn’t have any need for Consumers to be protected…..
Uh Huh.
Mike in NC
@dmsilev: “Unions in the News”?
A wild guess that this won’t be a pro-union stance. More like exposing thugs and moochers on FOX News.
Big ole hound
This clown seems to have picked up some GOP habits to go along with his normal grifting.
dmsilev
@Mike in NC: I’m pretty sure that’s the case. What amused me more was the juxtaposition of the first and third bullet points. “Conduct original research” and “try to convince other people to let us reprint their stuff”. No word on whether the latter could be rebranded to cover the former…
burnspbesq
Penny-ante stuff compared to what most urban Democratic machines, from Boss Tweed to Dan O’Connell to the Hague family to the Pendergast machine to Richard Daley, did from the late 19th century through about 1970.
We taught them how to do this.
scav
@rikyrah: Consumers need to learn their place: sit there, Consume and get out of the way of profit. They’re not called “critics” or “whiners” or “partners in a mutually beneficial economic transaction”. How can businessman get about their business with all this poking and prying and oversight? (No more than policeman and policing, for that matter. Entire populace is getting uppity and expecting they have anything to say or expect in transactions and relationships.)
I also like the grace note that there’s a deputy chief of staff and no chief of staff. Did he want to wear a shiny badge that looks like a star?
ETA : @burnspbesq: Indeed. Politics throughout history was notoriously pure, upright and perfectly free from greed and machinations until the invention of the American Democratic Party.
the Conster
Republicans are just so shameless, it’s mind blowing. I’m clearly doin’ it rong – I need to be more careless, thoughtless, ambitious, greedy and self-aggrandizing. It sure would make going through this world a lot more lucrative and way less frustrating.
Phylllis
Off topic, but too good not to share-Amazon reviews of Ann Romney’s family cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/The-Romney-Family-Table-Home-Cooked/product-reviews/1609076761/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#RUNTKR5KGJDOJ
rikyrah
Who’s winning the 2016 money race?
10/19/15 10:00 AM—UPDATED 10/19/15 10:10 AM
By Steve Benen
We can look at a variety of metrics to see who’s doing well in the presidential race – polls, endorsements, etc. – but as nearly everyone in campaign politics will confess, successful candidates need resources to compete.
With this in mind, who’s winning the 2016 money race? The answer may be unsatisfying, but the truth is, it depends on how you look at the numbers.
I’ve updated the chart we looked at three months ago, showing how the most competitive candidates are doing based on the most recent filings with the Federal Election Commission. I’ve omitted candidates who are less competitive, arbitrarily choosing a $10 million cutoff.
Note, the lighter colors – red for Republicans, blue for Democrats – show how much money the candidates have raised through their actual campaigns, while the darker colors show how much has been raised by the candidates’ allied entities, most of which are super PACs.
Looking at the chart, a few things jump out right away. For example, the top two contenders for the Democratic nomination – Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – are also the top two candidates overall when it comes to taking in contributions directly to their respective campaigns (so called “hard money”).
Similarly, though it may not look like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz are dominating the money race among GOP candidates, these two have fared the best among Republicans when super PACs are excluded from the picture.
Jeb Bush, meanwhile, looks like the financial powerhouse of the entire cycle, but the money coming in directly to his campaign is hardly overwhelming – it’s far short of Bernie Sanders’ total, for example – and the former governor is obviously heavily dependent on his Right to Rise operation, which is supposed to function independently of his campaign.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/whos-winning-the-2016-money-race
MattF
@burnspbesq: Well, yeah, there’s historical precedents, but I suspect this is something they’ve all managed to figure out for themselves. Insofar as there’s any novelty, we have a true rentier class of political operatives, and most of them don’t even keep a set of brass knuckles around– except maybe as a quaint historical artifact. In any case, they make themselves vastly more useful to the powers-that-be than those interfering consumer rights types.
aimai
@burnspbesq: We taught them how to do this? What on earth does that mean? Do you think that any functioning political party needed to “learn” how to be corrupt from someone else?
Capri
The only thing worse than corruption at the state level is corruption at the local government level. National politics are the most clean, which is very depressing but how it is. The less attention paid, the dirtier it gets.
In Indiana, it recently came to light that the past head of the DMV (appointed by the governor) had previously managed a pizza shop. He was a loyal soldier in the local R party, however.
Punchy
I’m sure those highly educated, well-informed WV voters will punish this egregious and despicable feloneous malfeasence…..by voting him in for another 4 years.
jurassicpork
In other words, a sinecure. Because who’s better suited to safeguard consumer interests than a teabagger Republican operative?
Meanwhile, The Bushes & Clintons Need to Stop Acting as if the Presidency is a Hand-Me-Down, says Mike Flannigan.
rikyrah
This is who they are. HOw many times must this be said?
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Busted: Watch Mississippi lawmaker openly race-baiting at GOP rally to oppose black school funding
David Edwards
19 Oct 2015 at 10:29 ET
Video shot by a local radio broadcaster caught Republican Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter using racial language to suggest to fellow Republicans that a ballot initiative to improve education was actually a plot to fund black schools at a cost to white schools.
The Clarion-Ledger reported that Carpenter was filmed by WMRG while speaking to the Tishomingo County Midway Republican Rally about the danger of Initiative 42, which would give a Hinds County judge control of school funding if the Mississippi legislature failed to lift the state from its last place national ranking on education.
According to the Clarion-Ledger, Republicans in the state had been using the phrase “Hinds County judge” as a racial dog whistle because the county is predominately black and has two female black judges.
But Carpenter dropped the coded language in a plea to defeat the initiative.
“If 42 passes in its form, a judge in Hinds County, Mississippi, predominantly black — it’s going to be a black judge — they’re going to tell us where the state education money goes,” the lawmaker warned. “So what’s he going to do? ‘[Predominately white] Tishomingo County, you’ve got a little bit of extra money, we’re going to take a little bit of that — I can see the happening, it may not, but I can see it — we’re going to help [schools in predominately black] Rolling Fork because they don’t have as good a tax base as you guys do, so we’re going take a little bit of that money and we’re going to to transition it to Rolling Fork.’”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/busted-watch-mississippi-lawmaker-openly-race-baiting-at-gop-rally-to-oppose-black-school-funding/
sukabi
@aimai: it’s not like this current crop of liars, grifters and thieves has any use for history.
Elizabelle
Getting rid of a job at the Consumer Protection Division, and paying for a campaign operative from the Consumer Protection Recovery Fund? That’s so mean-spirited.
This in a state where residents of Chemical Valley were drinking and bathing in bottled water because (was it?) Freedom Industries polluted their water supply. People have to still remember that.
And now defrauding state consumers, who need financial protection as much as they need safe drinking water.
Is this even legal? Good to see the newspaper on it.
This anecdote is easily explained to a listener; might be a scandal with legs. I hope so.
Betty Cracker
There’s frequent lamentation in this space about how Democrats focus too much on the presidency and national offices while the GOP eats our lunch in the local and state space. Can stuff like this turn the tide? Or will WVA voters vote a straight GOP ticket no matter how corrupt and venal their supposed public servants are?
scav
@Phylllis: I’m going to first expose my profound cultural ignorance by admitting I hadn’t a clue what a fluffernutter sandwich was until this very moment — but the thought of the family-friendly bedrock conservative mothers of ‘merca turning to a glossy cookbook produced by a 1%-loving political wife in order to learn how to spread peanut butter and marshmallow cream on alternate slices of bread and then manage to bring them together in the correct orientation . . ahhhhh, the Norman Rockwell illustrations create themselves.
Thoughtful Today
@scav:
^^^
John Cole
@burnspbesq:
What’s this “we” shit, you got a mouse in your pocket? I’ve never gutted an agency to use the money to hire a political lackey, nor has any Democrat I’ve voted for, so knock off the “both sides” bullshit, David Brooks.
MattF
@scav: I visited the Norman Rockwell museum on my vacation– I wouldn’t say that anything there fired up my aesthetic sensibilities, but it was genuinely entertaining.
JCJ
@Phylllis:
Those reviews are fantastic. I will definitely have to try the meats made from dancing horses – “dressage sausage.”
rikyrah
Because they could not prove that service would be provided otherwise.
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Federal judge orders Louisiana to fund Planned Parenthood clinics
Reuters
19 Oct 2015 at 11:13 ET
A federal judge has blocked Louisiana’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, finding that more than 5,000 low-income patients would have their healthcare disrupted by a move he ruled likely ran afoul of the law.
U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued a temporary restraining order late on Sunday requiring Louisiana to continue providing Medicaid funding to the reproductive health organization’s clinics for the next two weeks as the legal fight over the payments continues.
The judge said Planned Parenthood and its patients would likely suffer irreparable harm if funding for medical services such as cancer screenings and other preventative healthcare was suspended
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/federal-judge-orders-louisiana-to-fund-planned-parenthood-clinics/
scav
@MattF: As an artist, there’s certainly worse. I’d have probably preferred to use Thomas Kinkade or something really vile, but I don’t think he does figures like that, so I just grabbed for the easy iconic. Now that I’ve learned about Fluffernutter, I’m really wondering just what Kinks get squeezed to make that Kinkade.
MattF
@JCJ: With a side of glue– a product of the rendering factory in the backyard, I suppose.
gene108
@burnspbesq:
You really want to compare Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall with the goings on of the 21st century?
Hell, Tammany Hall at least grabbed the Irish, fresh off the boat, and got them into American civic life. The Bosses wanted more votes, so they expanded the franchise to include the penniless Irish fresh off the boat, rather than limit it to landed white males.
I think most Democratic urban political machines got things done for the people they pushed to vote for them. Sure there were kick backs, favors to the well connected, but they didn’t totally neglect the wards and precincts that got them elected. You can be a lot more personal in managing city politics than you can be as a statewide official.
Do you really think the W. Va. AG is going to do anything beneficial for the “little guy” in hiring someone, who will more than likely manage his political bid for higher office?
Republicans in every state they’ve come into power have appointed purely political hacks into office or donors or friends/family of donors to office, because they can and very little has been done to highlight this. It’s a naked abuse of power.
It’s a big fuck you to anyone wanting accountable government, with not even the “reach around” the old urban Democratic machines used to give their voters.
Big Picture Pathologist
@John Cole:
+1
That really was beneath you, Burnsie.
Punchy
Yes. And to answer the obvious follow-up, also yes if you switched out WVA with NE, KS, AL, AK, TN, LA, TX……
japa21
@gene108: The problem is, GOP voters aren’t really interested in “accountable” government. Hell, they would prefer no government at all.
rikyrah
This is prime example A,B,C of CLINGING TO THE WHITENESS.
Daniel DaleVerified account
@ddale8
Anti-Obamacare Republicans are keeping millions of poor people uninsured. My story from small-town Mississippi: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/10/19/mississippi-yearning-travels-in-americas-sickest-state.html …
Roger Moore
@scav:
I would assume it’s the Davies brothers.
japa21
@gene108: Oh, and even Dems have appointed political hacks from time to time. So, no, the Dems hands aren’t pure. I do think, in general, that the GOP, specially over the past couple decades, have made this almost into an art form.
Betty Cracker
@jurassicpork: Never heard of this Mike Flannigan person, but if he doesn’t know the difference between a genuine political dynasty like that the Family Bush has foist upon an unfortunate nation for nearly 100 years and Democratic power couple Bill and Hillary Clinton, he’s not worth reading.
rikyrah
THE WORD IS GENTRIFICATION
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Scenes from a Changing Detroit
When you talk to Detroiters about the city’s much-publicized rise and fall then another rise, they describe a longtime focus on recovery that has come in fits and starts. This is not the first time optimism has been in the air, they say. But what’s different today is the coalition of local, regional, and national partners behind this latest promise of a new Detroit.
http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2015/06/9-scenes-from-a-changing-detroit/?cmid=ww201509hp
trollhattan
@Thoughtful Today:
This is right up there with PG&E diverting safety program money to executive bonuses, prior to the San Bruno disaster. One literally can’t make this stuff up–nobody would buy the crassness required.
Not coincidentally, PG&E has been busy digging up my neighborhood to replace their evidently shabby old gas lines. Hope it doesn’t cut too much into those bonuses!
Thoughtful Today
@Betty Cracker:
It depends on who is talking to them and who they are listening to.
Anyone feel like looking up local media outlets and calling to ask about this?
Bonus points for calling local West Virginia broadcast FOX stations, sometimes they will report on this kind of thing to balance out FOX propagandists on the cable station.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Asked and answered?
I know quite a few kneejerk Republicans and not one of them can discuss their party’s actions with any level of detail or accuracy–they only know the economic component of the party platform. NOTHING will pry them away.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
To be fair, Chelsea gets the White House first, then Malia, no matter how much she complains about having to wait. It’s all laid out on page 17 of The Plan.
Origuy
@Big Picture Pathologist: It’s not even accurate. From the Civil War until the Great Depression, the Republican Party dominated some of the big Northern cities, including Chicago and Philadelphia, and a lot of the rural areas. I doubt they were any cleaner than their Democratic counterparts.
Bodacious
OK, our Yahoos just pulled this one as well. Look it up – Clark Count WA commissioners.
Hired a state sen. (R) blowhard to double dip as ‘Environmental Manager’ without open interviews or any competitive hiring. This rod has not one ounce of experience as manager or environ-anything, though he was ‘a boy scout’.
Not a damn thing we can do.
gene108
@japa21:
I think they care to some extent, but they care more that abortions are outlawed, “others” are kept in their place, etc.
As long as government stays out of their Medicare, and just makes sure the lazy “others” aren’t free loading, it’s all good.
If a good Christian AG, like the one in W. Va., needs a special friend in a special position, it is not an issue, as long as he can crush Planned Parenthood as God intended.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Honestly, from two time zones away this seems more like urban homesteading/repopulation than gentrification. The California model of gentrification is the middle class pushing into poor neighborhoods once they’re priced out of the most desirable ones, which eventually forces out the current populace through higher prices.
IIUC Detroit has been depopulated to a phenomenal degree and one can buy a house for a trifle. But, Whole Foods? Really?
Calouste
@Big Picture Pathologist: Burnsie is a tax lawyer, I don’t think there’s really anything beneath him besides elected Republicans.
Sherparick
For some moral uplift, I found this at today’s guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/oct/16/goodbye-peanut
sukabi
@scav: just want to go on record as saying that “fluffennutter” sounds like a sex act, and one you wouldn’t be necessarily proud of having done.
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
This also includes prosperous Silicon Valley workers pushing out the middle and lower classes in pockets of Northern California, including San Francisco and Oakland.
And then there is the pocket of Chinese millionaires pushing out residents and building “mistress mansions” in places like Arcadia.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-10-15/chinese-home-buying-binge-transforms-california-suburb-arcadia
ThresherK
I want to know if conservativejobs is anything more than the equivalent of those horsecrap toolbars which infect a computer and hijack everything you search for under the pretense of “helping you find things” (ETA:) for which they get a cut.
Because that is how they work. By which I mean the conservatives. And the horsecrap toolbars.
philpm
@dmsilev: Why do I get the feeling this is an unpaid position. “Get valuable political experience, all while working ridiculous hours, on call at any time, without having to worry about any pesky “compensation” or “benefits”!!! Apply NOW!”
Another Holocene Human
@Phylllis: Oh this is good
goblue72
@Calouste: International tax shelter lawyer. So its pretty much a coin toss between that and elected Republican official.
J R in WV
@philpm:
Well, hey, if you get no salary, you got no taxes to pay, right? Perfect!
What conservative wouldn’t prefer to not have to even file, since their income was net zero, right?
Eat at those functions you have to attend, sleep under your boss’s desk, get wonderful and valuable experience… being a conservative mover and shaker !!!
goblue72
@Brachiator: As a California resident, I can say that Californians only have themselves to blame. The state has been in the thrall of an anti-growth movement over the last 40 years, completely choking off the ability of the housing market here to meet demand. To the point where we are now home to 7 of the 10 most expensive metro housing markets in the country – San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County and Ventura County. To put in context, the other three are NYC, Fairfield County, CT (that would be, where hedge funder central Greenwich is), and Honolulu, HI (that would be, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2014/05/14/top-10-least-and-most-expensive-housing-markets-for-todays-middle-class/
Ridnik Chrome
@burnspbesq: Read up on William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, the last Republican mayor of Chicago. He basically let the Capone mob operate right out in the open. The long reign of Democratic Chicago mayors began with Anton Cermak, who ran as a reform candidate. So “we” didn’t have to teach the Republicans anything…
philpm
@J R in WV: And hey, if you do it right, you can get food stamps until your boss votes to cut them off.
Another Holocene Human
@rikyrah: The Reconstruction failed in Mississippi. They’ve been at this business of not funding schooling for Black children for 130 years. Time for an occupying army.
Another Holocene Human
@MattF: In the forest of sanitized paeons to small town American life, peopled with repetitive, almost cartoonish characters, Rockwell’s oeuvre occasionally takes a turn for the emotional or the evocative.
Also, his four freedoms series was historically significant and frequently reproduced.
Brachiator
@goblue72:
Partly. San Francisco has limited room for growth. And on top of this you have to include wage stagnation, which affected the middle class more than upper income groups, and economic uncertainty and volatility.
In Southern California, you had expansion out into the Inland Empire and other areas, etc.
The Forbes link has some great info. Thanks.
Another Holocene Human
@gene108: People want their turkey on Thanksgiving, dammit!
Another Holocene Human
@Brachiator: There’s a big unwillingness to replace single family homes with multifamily homes. Of course in SF it has to be earthquake proof as well, less of a concern in other parts of the country. That’s the exact issue in Seattle but it’s a SF/Oakland issue as well. And then there’s the Silicon Valley communities that invite giant corporate “campuses” but won’t allow homes to be built there. Yeah, that’s really environ-mental.
goblue72
@Brachiator: I’m in the real estate industry, former real estate developer. If there’s thing I am familiar with professionally, its housing policy. And California is a mess.
The California Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a report earlier this year on the high costs of housing in California – the principal culprit? Our supply restrictive, anti-growth laws – http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.pdf
Also, its a complete myth that San Francisco is land constrained. Its a myth that cities can “run out of room”. San Francisco is HALF as dense as New York City, which in turn is less dense than Paris. Yet nobody would argue that Paris is some unliveable urban hellhole. What San Francisco lacks is ZONED capacity. Which is an entirely self-inflicted, voluntary process of supply constraint on land development. San Francisco, the most expensive housing market in the United States where one-bedroom apartments rent for over $3,500 a month on average, that is the center of 21st century job growth, and that comparatively has a robust public transit system – quite literally has large areas of the city zoned as single-family housing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-city-that-has-run-out-of-room/
And this fall on the ballot, there is a measure to impose a housing development moratorium in the City’s Mission District, which is home to two of the most widely used BART stations in the entire BART system. That’s right – the voters want to ban housing development next to light rail.
And the left in SF still can’t figure out why we have a homelessness crisis.
goblue72
@Another Holocene Human: The seismic issue is not a big deal. I’ve development multifamily housing in Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco, amongst other cities. Its fully baked into the costs at this point, and isn’t a huge driving factor in housing costs.
Seattle has similar seismic code issues, but manages to have a much more robust housing development pipeline than San Francisco. Seattle delivered more housing units in 2014 than San Francisco did, in spite of being a city with 200,000 less people. Its on track to do that again in 2015. Unsurprisingly, while rents in Seattle have gone up (job growth in Seattle is outpacing housing unit production), the rate of increase has been much less than that of San Francisco. And in the homeownership market, a home in Seattle costs half that of SF. In spite of fairly equivalent average net household income (SF’s average gross wages are higher, but Washington state has no income tax, so take-home pay between the two is fairly close)
PurpleGirl
@Betty Cracker: If you’re still reading the thread… Jurassicpork is Mike Flanagan, on loan from Robert somebody or other. I’ve seen his stuff at “Brilliant at Breakfast” and finally figured out that he uses a pen name or two.
I don’t care for his writing style — very long and with lots of stuff that is really aside material.
Brachiator
@goblue72:
This is a mess. But it seems in part driven by some reasonable anger.
New housing that aids gentrification and the displacement of lower income residents is not much of a solution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-francisco-housing-moratorium_55b1424ae4b08f57d5d41359
But this article also supports what you say about housing density.
trollhattan
SF has a bit of an area issue: 46.89 mi^2 versus Seattle’s 83.78 mi^2.
In once sense they’re remarkably similar in being hemmed in by water and devilishly lumpy but, having grown up in Seattle and now living an utterly theoretical 90 minutes from SF, direct equivalences are few in practice. IMHO SF can and will never be “affordable” because even if they went full Hong Kong, scraped the place clean and crammed it with high rises it would still cost SF prices, regardless of how many low- and middle-income setasides one leveraged from the developers. The astonishing changes since I decamped for nor-cal have been in the East Bay, South Bay and Sonoma County. Holy cow.
Gin & Tonic
@goblue72: Fun fact. San Francisco is just about 50% larger in area than Manhattan, and has half the population.
A guy
Morrissey is an idiot
farthestnorth
reminds me of this http://www.adn.com/article/20130523/police-former-judge-stole-cocaine-pennsylvania-he-was-hired-alaska with less cocaine..]
Neutron Flux
@burnspbesq: It pains me to say this, but, you are correct.
boatboy_srq
@Capri: I’m starting to wonder whether the kind of tax exemptions the religious outfits get ought to get applied to the small news organizations (in exchange for reinstatement of Fairness Doctrine, natch). Nothing like a little sunshine at City Hall or the state capital to drive out at least some of the slime.
Sourmash
@benw: and what does it cost to post there? “Grift.com” inc. proprietors. We use specialized job posting sites and they don’t come cheap. More on the taxpayers nickel.
Macho Man Randy Shilts
I have to ask: who’s submitted the FOIA request to see what this guy’s official job description is? How about requesting to see his email?
My guess is that he’ll do most of his real work through non-state accounts, but I would like to know what exactly he’s been doing in his new role.