He was offered a job as head of the alcohol control board, a demotion and a slap in the face for a career law enforcement guy. Offering him a job she knew he wouldn't take for reasons of pride and career advancement gave her cover.
We don't know whether the salaries, benefits, etc., were comparable.
When she finally came clean after firing him out of the blue, she mentioned trooper shortfall and budget problems.
She wanted him to hire more troopers but spend less money doing so, an impossible thing if he had a lean department to begin with. She was pressuring him in this way, too.
There are tons of evidence of her efforts to influence him. The BS that Bailey, who was caught red-handed at it, did it on his own is exactly that, BS.
I see it as an indicator of something that is not quite right with her. Something's amiss. Something rotten in Denmark.
I can understand what she was doing from a human and personal standpoint, of course, but don't want any more folks in Washington who think they can use their powerful positions to advance personal interests.
Politicians are a cynical and manipulative breed. Their public persona is vastly different from who they really are. The last more or less genuine one on the national stage was probably Harry Truman.
I think her rock stardom will be short lived once the scrutiny begins in earnest. If McCain were a bit younger, I'd be more willing to overlook this.
Don't even get me started with her lack of experience. It matters, as JFK found out in 1961 when he failed to impress Kruschev at Vienna; it lead to the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962, which I remember as a boy. It was very scary. |
