Zzzzz: Strib AG Endorsements

The Strib endorses Lori Swanson (we shall call her "Mini-Mike") for Attorney General.

Her experience as solicitor general and as deputy to Mike Hatch makes her the best-prepared candidate in this racehile Hatch has sometimes overreached and unfairly antagonized business interests [Um, no. He's made a career and a national reputation of it.], his office has, on the whole, performed admirably as the law firm for the people and their government.

Of Swanson...:

Swanson, the DFL candidate, strikes us as bright, fair, tough-minded, politically moderate and extremely organized. She seems to have no desire for the grandstand. Ambition for higher office is not apparent. If she is elected, however, and Hatch becomes governor, Swanson must make clear her independence from him.

Really, Strib? She "must"?

And why "must" she? Because of the example you set of holding Hatch's feet in the fire for his excesses? Because the Strib is so dedicated to exposing self-aggrandizing politicians?

Is the ethical imperative, or our trust in Lori Swanson's ethics, enough? It'll have to be - because the Strib won't do any more to back up that imprecation than they did to restrain Mike Hatch's boundless, thuggish quest for power and influence as Attorney General.

Simple fact; When working for the AGO, it was Mike Hatch's way or the highway. To not only work at the AGO, but rise to the position of deputy in that office, meant that she had to become "Mini-Mike".

Which will make it difficult to "make clear her independence from him"; there is none.

Posted by Mitch at October 23, 2006 06:04 AM | TrackBack