Vol. 6, No. 7       February 1, 2009

Letters We Get

The Prairie Mail Box, by Rufus Zogbaum (1887)

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Hi Johnny,

I'm enjoying the new issue, thinking you should have a Comments element below each article so that bloviators like me can add our trenchant observations. The Krolicki Gibbons spat is especially disappointing because it shows that it's not only misery that loves company, mediocrity loves company too.

Tim Maland, who resigned in September, was the best director the commission ever had. He was smart, experienced and effective, and he had the respect of his staff. No previous Director has had all these things going for him. But the Goob wanted his friend Kirk Montero in the job and let Tim know he wasn't wanted. Tim resigned, and despite the loooong lag time in gathering applications and vetting candidates, Montero did not apply. So Gibbons ignored the three candidates whose names were submitted as prescribed by law, and appointed Montero anyway.

He preferred having a crony over a productive person not personally beholden to him, and the state, its primary industry and we the people are the losers.

David

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