Last week, Bluestem published Dithering Daudt wastes a month before ignoring minority leader's recommendation for LSOHC, in which Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt took a month to ignore the minority caucus leader's recommendation to fill a vacant seat on the Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.
While we lamented Daudt's tardiness in ignoring {Paul Thissen's recommendation, on Monday, the Star Tribune editorial cut to the chase (such as it was) in State Rep. Rick Hansen should have been reappointed to Outdoor Heritage Council: Shutting out legislator again suggests group doesn’t like hard questions:
As expected, a Star Tribune editorial writer’s recent call to state Rep. Rick Hansen didn’t yield conventional wisdom about Gov. Mark Dayton’s new initiative to restore Minnesota’s pheasant population.
In a state where outdoor sporting groups are a powerful political lobby, there was considerable praise in most quarters for the pheasant initiative. Hansen, DFL-South St. Paul, offered a different but still valuable take. The price tag (around $300 million from state and federal sources) is sobering, he pointed out. And, he wanted to know, is acquiring land for habitat and hunting, one of the initiative’s key aims, the right strategy? Or is it one that uninspired policymakers fell back on after relying on it so heavily since the Legacy sales tax dollars started flowing?
Hansen’s colleagues know this suburban legislator can be a dogged though collegial contrarian, one willing to challenge powerful special interests. He’s also a passionate outdoorsman who puts his academic credentials in biology and soil management to good use as a lawmaker. From the public’s perspective, Hansen is exactly the type of person who should sit on the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, which makes influential spending recommendations about roughly $100 million a year in state sales tax dollars. . . .
Too much critical thinking for Dithering Daudt.
The Morning Grind at AM950 picked up on the story on Monday:
Here is the @bspinmn story I talked this morning! http://t.co/wvZG2GhOYB Thanks @sallyjos! @MorningGrind950
— Matt McNeil AM 950 (@MattMcNeilAM950) September 28, 2015
The podcast is found here.
Bluestem was first to post about the appointment last week.
Photo: Rep. Rick Hansen, South St. Paul.
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Dithering Daudt confuses kneecapping with leadership. He's so geared to a dirty-tricks mindset that he doesn't know what to do when confronted with the nuts-and-bolts reality of governance. Thus, he dithers, helplessly waiting for his corporate patrons to tell him what to do.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Oct 01, 2015 at 08:54 AM