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To: RMF who wrote (53559)	9/17/2013 9:34:32 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By longnshort Respond to of 85487

Now now. Don't be mean. Koan has said he smoked a lot of dope and dropped a lot of LSD back in college and he's still a nightly dope user more than half a century later. You can't get better expertise than that. He wrote his states alcohol and drug above program himself .... he may have been rolling around on the floor, half blind and giggling his ass off while he copied another state's program, scratching out the the state name and writing Alaska in its place, but by God he got 'er done. Hey, elect Democrats and that's what you get.

To: RMF who wrote (53559)	9/17/2013 10:11:07 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Thomas A Watson Respond to of 85487

" Were you an intellectual phenom at Harvard or Yale or something?" lololololol yeah just read his posts lololol it's so obvious

To: RMF who wrote (53559)	9/17/2013 12:42:16 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 85487

I was never an intellectual phenom. Look at my bio, I was barely educated at 20 and had to start in a junior college. But once I discovered college and learned how to learn, I became a zealot about education. I got my first big job with the state as a consultant doing grant reviews for the office of alcoholism and drug abuse. I was 27. We had community programs all over the state (just like they have now) and each year those programs had to submit a plan and budget which we had to review for funding. I always needed work (as I grew up poor) and had to figure out how to keep my job, so I learned the budget. Everyone else was scared of the budget and once I learned it I sort of became indispensable and they had to keep finding spots for me to keep me employeed. which was my plan. When the director left, they looked around and I had a lot of support and they hired me. It was a job appointed by the governor. I am not exactly sure why they chose me? Three years later I was the State director of the office of emergency medical services. I wrote both state plans.