As Steve Lopez from the LA Times notes, the gravy train keeps rolling…
My application has arrived in the governor’s office and my fingers are crossed. If things work out, I could be joining the Schwarzenegger team before you know it.
Sure, the newspaper gig has been fun for 35 years, but the business is a bit shaky these days, and President Obama did ask that we all consider public service.
After watching the governor appoint termed-out legislators and other pals to six-figure salaries on various boards and commissions, some of which meet only once a month, I figured it was time for me to begin a second career.
I hope you don’t think of me as a sellout. To be honest, my first instinct was to flog the governor for yet another in his long line of blatant hypocrisies. In addition to promising balanced budgets on time, and getting money out of politics, he pledged to abolish many of the state’s 300-plus boards and commissions. His own review panel recommended abolishing 88 of them, including some of the same ones to which he’s been making appointments.
Not much else to say, is there?
Paul
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