The primary goal of most government employment outside of the military, law-enforcement, first-responders (except their unions, of course). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only thing notable about the episode last week with Rep. Jamie Long – a Minneapolis DFLer who got a patronage job in the DFL-dominated university\/non-profit complex – is that he and his bureaucratic benefactor, former Senator Ellen Anderson, got busted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s good to be an insider<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turns out, before the position was even posted, Anderson was in touch with Long about the position. Anderson asked Long was to<\/a> write his own position description and dictate his own hours to align perfectly with when the legislature was not in session. The only notable thign about it is that GOP Rep Swedzinski actually found out about it, and took action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n IN other words, he held the dominant party in the bureaucracy accountable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Something that never happens in single-part autocracies like Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Duluth or Bloomington. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The primary goal of most government employment outside of the military, law-enforcement, first-responders (except their unions, of course). The only thing notable about the episode last week with Rep. Jamie Long – a Minneapolis DFLer who got a patronage job in the DFL-dominated university\/non-profit complex – is that he and his bureaucratic benefactor, former Senator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72175,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72173\/revisions\/72175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cAny information you have about what would be optimal for you would be helpful,\u201d Anderson wrote in an April 1 email to Long<\/a>, obtained via a public records request.
In the same email, Anderson appeared to suggest that the secret donor\u2019s money was specifically meant to employ Long while the legislature was not in session. The email mentioned money given \u201cto start a legislative fellows program and hire MN Rep. Jamie Long.\u201d
According to the Pioneer Press<\/a>: \u201cThe fellowship ultimately paid $33.65 an hour and was funded by a grant the university received on Feb. 27 from a donor whose identity was redacted from school records released to the public.\u201d That would be about $40,000<\/a> for seven months of work\u2014a set up that may have violated ethics and campaign finance laws.
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