Monday, December 11, 2006
Governor Phil knows how to pick 'em
When he took office in 2003, Governor Phil Bredesen promised that he'd steward an "open, honest" government. After overseeing a Department of Safety (Tenn. Highway Patrol) that allowed itself to become politicized by rewarding political donors with promotions, and after it was revealed that Deputy Governor Dave Cooley intervened in the case of a "high-ranking state official demoted for sexual harassment last year, arranging to get him a different job without letting his new supervisors know what the man had done," you'd think the Governor Phil would make every effort to avoid all appearances of impropriety. Well, he ain't. Bill Hobbs reports:
"Gov. Phil Bredesen has named the former lobbyist for 1Point Solutions - the corrupt company that may have stolen millions of dollars of people's retirement funds, and whose CEO donated large sums to Bredesen's campaigns and to the Tennessee Democratic Party - as his new Deputy Governor. New Deputy Gov. Stuart Brunson replaces former Deputy Gov. Dave Cooley - the guy who ran the administration's donations-for-promotions scheme in the Tennessee Highway Patrol."
"Gov. Phil Bredesen has named the former lobbyist for 1Point Solutions - the corrupt company that may have stolen millions of dollars of people's retirement funds, and whose CEO donated large sums to Bredesen's campaigns and to the Tennessee Democratic Party - as his new Deputy Governor. New Deputy Gov. Stuart Brunson replaces former Deputy Gov. Dave Cooley - the guy who ran the administration's donations-for-promotions scheme in the Tennessee Highway Patrol."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, December 11, 2006 
