The Dayton Dust Bowl: Not Ready For Prime Time?
By Mitch Berg
MDE’s Andy Post on Dayton’s appointment of Sue Haigh – former Ramco Commissioner and Registered Spending Offender – to head the Met Council:
Susan Haigh spent 10 years as a Ramsey Commissioner (1995-2005) and once proposed a 45% pay increase for herself and other board members.
Like Dayton, Haigh has also received disproportional amounts of campaign contributions from labor unions. Below is a part of her list of contributors from the 2002 re-elect campaign for Commissioner. Full report here.
2002 Haigh campaign contributors partial list, courtesy MDE
Dayton’s work on his cabinet contradicts what he told the Star Tribune in early December, where he stated he would likely appoint his Management and Budget commissioner and his Revenue commissioner given the tough budget work ahead.
Saying something and doing the opposite; as we learned during the extended back-and-forth over his budget proposals during the campaign, it’s something can get used to from Dayton.
Post also notes…:
Since that story was published, Dayton has appointed few commissioners, not including M&B or Revenue. However, he has had time to thoroughly plan his blue jeans inaugural ball, which has had wall to wall press coverage. Will the Governor-elect be prepared to lead Minnesota on January 3rd without a functioning cabinet?
Perhaps he thinks the SEIU and “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” will do all of the cabinetry for him.
More on Dayton cabinet appointments later today.
December 31st, 2010 at 1:36 pm
How about Gov. JimBeam’s pick for the government schools?
Brenda Cassellius, a former associate superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, which, as everyone knows, is currently enjoying the nod as owning the biggest “race gap” in the nation (means they send lots of little brown and black kids out to deal with a life of illiteracy).
Oh, and she was the Diversity Coordinator for Burnsville Public School district, too, she’s got that going for her, which is good.
It’s so nice to see people get rewarded for hard work and achievement, isn’t it?
December 31st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
BTW, forgive the threadjack, but witless public school expert, Dave Mindeman has thrown down the gauntlet…please feel free to pick it up and put it to good use.
http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/comments.php?id=2604#comments
That poor kook’s pelt is barely hanging on by a thread.
December 31st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Hey, Dave quoted Albus Dumbledor. You can’t argue with the wisdom of J.K. Rowling.
December 31st, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I noticed that, Kermit. I tell you these people have no sense of irony.