The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave
By Mitch Berg
Remember last fall, when during my election predictions I said that new Attorney General Lorie Swanson would be “Mini Mike”?
According to Brodkorb, it’s actually worse than that. Hatch is staying on as an AGO “employee”.
Mr. Hatch; you were rejected at the polls, during a year in which you held every possible advantage. Minnesotans do not want you anymore.
Leave.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Hatch said he made the decision final on Christmas Eve, after falling while walking his dogs near his Eagan home. Hatch called Swanson, also an Eagan resident, on his cell phone after slipping on ice and breaking several ribs and his collarbone.
Hatch recalled Swanson telling him as he lay on the ground: “‘You know I bet you could spend the next hour calling the partners in that law firm and I bet they wouldn’t show up to scrape you off the sidewalk unless they could bill a client for it.’ I was not in a position to argue,'” Hatch said.
Does it strike anyone else as revealing that Swanson thought that Hatch would be calling a partner at a law firm rather than calling his wife or 9/11? I mean really if you fell and broke your collarbone and some ribs, would you want to talk to Lori Swanson or an attorney or would you want someone who, I dunno, could actually HELP you with your immediate problem?